James Halliday is one of Australia’s best know wine personalities and wine writers. He has written several books and launched an ambitious wine magazine a few years back called, of course, James Halliday Australian Wine
Looking at Douro as a wine region the Douro is divided into three districts: Baixo Corgo, Cima Corgo and Douro Superior. Corgo is the name of one of the tributaries. Baixo Corgo is the area
TheEpicureanExplorer.com is a web site that writes about a wide variety of travel related subject. It is run by Maralyn D Hill who is also president of the International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association.
Easier Travel is a travel web site, part of Easier.com, with tourism and travel information. They recently featured our winter wine tours to South America and South Africa. Here’s the start of their post on
The focus on all our wine tours is to discover the great wines and the great food of the country and region we visit. But a wine tour also includes many other different things: culture,
Travel to the wine regions with the experts on wine and the wine tour specialist! BKWine is the specialist on wine tours and gourmet travel. We are also experts on wine. The world’s only wine
press release Paris, 2013-08-06 Winter wine and food tours: South America and South Africa with BKWine The wine and food tour specialist BKWine has launched the coming winter’s wine and gourmet tours. There are two
Champagne is one of our most popular wine tour destinations. It is not surprising. It is a world famous wine, a beautiful region, with a delicious gastronomy. With easy access from Paris. It has many
A wine tour to the Piedmont, or Piemonte as they say in Italy, is of course full of winery visits and excellent wines. But there is also plenty of delicious food and time for some
There are many old cellars with centuries old vaults in Burgundy. Many wineries are old houses with underground cellars that have been there for generations. It is not unusual for a wine tour that you
The Chablis village, that is the central point of the world famous French Chablis wine region, is a tiny and very rural village. At 7 PM all shops close and only one or two cafés
We tasted a lot of different malbec wines on the wine tour in Argentina in February. We also tried some bonarda, but perhaps not enough… Bonarda is not so well known but it is actually
The good harvest in Argentina and musings on how wine making is different in South America Sometimes I get the feeling it is quite different to make wine in the southern hemisphere and in the
On a wine tour we organised this spring to the Piedmont wine region we had added a visit of a more unusual kind: to a grappa distillery. Perhaps you think of grappa as something nasty
Last spring we were in Sancerre for a wine tour that we organised. It was one of the wine villages we visited on our trip “Three Classics” which this time began in Champagne, proceeded to
Visit Champagne, Burgundy, Chablis / Sancerre in one great wine tour If there are too many good things it can be difficult to choose. There are many great wines and wine regions in France, so
A brief introduction to an exciting wine region in Portugal I remember very well a picture from the Douro valley which I saw in a wine magazine maybe fifteen years ago or even more. I
Some of the most exclusive and highest rated wines in Italy can be found up north, in Piedmont (or Piemonte, as the Italians say). There you can find Barolo and Barbaresco, the powerful tense wines
With the international recession, all problems with the euro and other economic uncertainties around the world the tourism industry has not seen very bright times over the last few (or not so few!) years. Is
Vinofil is a Swedish wine blogger who writes about wine recommendations, tasted wines and some food. It’s inevitable that sit up straight when Vinofil writes “come with us to the southern Rhone valley”! We can
Travelling to the Douro wine country can almost take your breath away We have just published our new Douro Valley wine tour program. The Douro is one of the most spectacular wine regions in the
If you go on a wine tour to Chile then you will have the occasion to taste many, many exciting wines and delicious meals. But if you go to Chile you also must try at
“Recommended Wine Tours”, according to the world’s biggest wine tasting association A few things to think of when evaluating a wine tour operator Twice yearly there is a special issue of the magazine Munskanken that
Tastline is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, food and wine site in Scandinavia. Their two wine writers, Ulrika Karlsson and Camilla Settlin regularly writes on Tasteline’s wine blog: wine buying recommendations, wine
Quite a lot of wines tasted on the South American wine tour Over fourteen days you have the time to taste quite a few wines and visit quite a few vineyards. It can sometimes even
