Perhaps the most important thing that you should make sure that you pack when you go wine touring is a pair of comfortable walking shoes. Another thing that you may want to bring is a
There is no other city in France that exudes so much luxury and elegance as Bordeaux. Walk along the river Garonne in the evening and the city looks as if it is shimmering in gold.
Florence is today the undisputed wine capital of Tuscany. It is in the heart of the Chianti wine region, as well as of Tuscany, and it is the perfect starting point to explore the wineries
“Three Classics” is what we call the wine tour that goes to Champagne, Chablis and Sancerre (or sometimes Burgundy). It goes over five intense days and will take you to three of the most famous
Our wine tour to Veneto always feature both some of the most famous Vento wine producers and some that are not so internationally well-known, but of course just as good. Among the most famous wineries
Our wine tours naturally have the emphasis on wine, but we also put great importance on the food and the gastronomic experience. To drink wine is intimately connected with food. So when you visit a
Last spring, we arranged a long wine tour trip to Chile and Argentina in South America. It is a tour that contains a lot of different things, Buenos Aires, including tango, Pampas, Mendoza, Chile’s wine
Unfortunately I was not on the wine tour to the Piedmont… A little while back we had a wine tour and culinary trip to the Piedmont. I often go on these tours but this time
Alsace is actually one of the regions in France with the least rainfall. That is not a bad feature for a travel destination. Hot and sunny in season. But it is still quite far north
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Port wine types Port wine is of course still the most important thing for most wine producers in the Douro Valley, as you will rapidly notice when you come wine touring in the region. The
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
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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
