You may think that it is easy to arrange a wine tour to South Africa, whether you do it yourself or use a “regular” tour operator. And it is in a sense; the language is
Everyone probably has some inner vision of what it is like in South America. And everyone probably has some small (or big) longing to get there at some point. But what attracts you the most?
“One of the best carmenère I have tasted is from Viña Maquis in the Colchagua Valley of Chile, a wine region known for its red wines, about 200 kilometres south of Santiago. Their Maquis Viola
Our Argentina and Chile wine tour is a 14-day immersion in some of the best wine and food in these two South American countries, while enjoying some spectacular scenery and exciting cities. The tour gives
Malbec is the signature grape of Argentina and of Mendoza in particular. But it is a grape that has only really emerged as an international top-quality grape in the last few decades. One of the
Adrianna Vineyards is a separate line of wines produced by Catena Zapata in Mendoza, Argentina. The Andes stretch up to the highest peak, Aconcagua, at almost 7,000 meters. The vineyard is located a good way
We at BKWine organise a lot of wine tours. Some of them are in English and some are in Swedish. Even though we make many wine tours for English-speaking wine lovers, our biggest market is
It is perhaps not surprising that there are so many wine entrepreneurs in South Africa. Even if the first vine was planted in 1655 it was not until the end of apartheid in the mid-90s
We cover a lot of ground – and a lot of vineyards – on the wine tour in New Zealand. Instead of making a few short hops and stops and then off to somewhere else
Both Chile and Argentina have long histories of wine. Wine grapes arrived from Europe in the 16th century. Some of the grapes grown here are today almost forgotten and disappeared from their origin. In Argentina
There is something very special about traveling to the other side of the globe. There is no need to change the clock, there is a twelve hour time difference from Europe. The journey to get
Black Barn is one of the smaller wineries in Hawke’s Bay on New Zealand’s North Island. It celebrated its twentieth-anniversary last year and has developed a strong and interesting portfolio of wines. Dave McKee is
“Pinot noir is not just Burgundy and Champagne. The grape is the ninth most cultivated variety in the world. It is planted on 115,000 hectares, of which roughly 30,000 hectares are in France. In other
The mighty Andes Mountain range plays an important role on our wine tour to South America’s two most important wine countries. We spend the first half of the tour in Argentina. Then we cross the
Stark-Condé Wines is only a stone’s throw from the town centre of Stellenbosch, but when you arrive there, you feel like you’re in another world. Remote, quiet, calm. In the Jonkershoek Valley. Well, it’s not
On the tour to South Africa, you will experience the beautiful and diverse wine landscape up close. We go from Cape Town to Elgin and Hermanus down on the South Coast and from there over
The Steytler family has owned Kaapzicht Wine Estate for four generations. Today, it is run by Dani Steytler Jr and his wife Carin. They make a wide range of wines from 21 different grape varieties.
The city of Bordeaux on the Garonne River is one of the most beautiful in France. Here we stay for four nights while exploring the different parts of the Bordeaux wine region. The tour offers
Sometimes the best vineyards are hidden away on the smallest roads. That’s certainly the case for Oldenburg Vineyards. I can’t claim to be competent to pronounce it THE best, but it is certainly up there
On this 9-day tour we combine the two prestigious regions Champagne and Bordeaux. We spend 4 nights in each region and you will taste some of the best sparkling and best red wines in France.
When we started traveling to South Africa on the wine tours we organize , we also started reading South African detective stories (our pastime when we’re not working with wine). It turns out that South
The world is drinking sparkling wines like never before. This means that Champagne is getting more and more competitors. Will Champagne retain its special position as the world’s premier bubbly? We think so. With the
South Africa is an amazingly beautiful country. Almost all the wineries have spectacular locations. But the most important thing is, after all, that the wines are getting more and more exciting, both the whites and
Springfontein Wines is, in some ways, very similar to many other small wineries in South Africa, and in other ways, it is very different. What it shares with many other small entrepreneurial wineries in the
Iona Wines is located in Elgin, a little over an hour’s drive east of Cape Town near the south coast. The winery is located in a fairly new wine district called Elgin. In the past,
