“Fantastic culinary experiences!”
We received a mail from a couple who were travelling with us on the wine tour in Veneto in northern Italy recently, where we tasted a whole lot of excellent amarones, as well as more
June 7, 2012
Per Karlsson
Turista.nu on BKWine’s wine tours to Chile-Argentina and South Africa
Turista.nu is a site, or an ezine, with information on travel around the world (focused mainly on a Scandinavian readership). It talks mainly about travel from a perspective of someone who travels for pleasure and
June 3, 2012
“A wonderful experience with excellent food and wine, and good company!”
On of the guests on our wine tour to South Africa that took place in March sent us a short email: A big thank you for the wonderful vacation that we have just had in
May 5, 2012
“What a wonderful trip! So perfect!”
Last week we had a wine tour in northern Italy: both Piedmont and Veneto, including the very popular amarone wines were on the program. The weather was excellent, much better than here in grey Paris.
May 2, 2012
New issue of the wine newsletter out, BKWine Brief 104
We have just published a new issue of our wine newsletter, The BKWine Brief #104, April 2012. In it you will find lots of information on wine, gastronomy travel (and in particular wine travel of
April 30, 2012
Sommelier India writes about BKWine Tours
The leading wine magazine features our wine travel Sommelier India wine Magazine is the leading Indian wine magazine dedicated to wine and wine lovers. Contrary to what the name may suggest it is not only
April 23, 2012
“An absolutely wonderful wine tour!”
Earlier this year we arranged a wine (and a lot of food!) tour to South Africa. it is nice to think back and remember a day like this when weather is more like winter; all
April 17, 2012
Harvest wine in Bordeaux in September
In September we have a three day wine tour of Bordeaux where half a day is dedicated to manual labour in the vineyard: harvesting grapes. This is a tour that we currently offer on our
February 14, 2012
Our newsletter on wine out with issue 101
We have just published the new issue of our wine newsletter, the BKWine Brief, with news and reviews on wine, the issue number 101: restaurant reviews, 17 good organic wine producers, on the world wine
February 1, 2012
Travel to the wine with BKWine, says Scandinavia’s biggest food magazine
A hawk-eyed traveller and friend of BKWine who was trawling through a pile of old food and wine magazines found an article on wine travel in the biggest Swedish food magazine (Allt om Mat) in
January 30, 2012
Issue 100 of our newsletter in December
Nr One Hundred – celebration for the BKWine Brief In December we celebrated the 100th issue of the BKWine Brief, our newsletter on wine, food, gastronomy, and travel. It has been a long and exciting
January 16, 2012
Restaurant recommendations in Tuscany
Italian wine and food is not only pasta, pizza and wine in a straw basket There are many good restaurants in Tuscany, anything and everything from starred gourmet restaurants to the simplest taverna and wine
January 13, 2012
Press Release: Wine tour program for 2012
Champagne and Tuscany new destinations – plus classic Bordeaux – on BKWine 2012 wine and food travel program To go on a wine tour in spring time is quite different from travelling in the autumn.
January 11, 2012
“Adventure tour with breath taking drop height without safety rail”
A traveller, or actually a couple, who travelled with us on one of our wine tours this past autumn, to Portugal and the Douro sent us a short mail: We have to express our great
December 27, 2011
Should we go to Swartland?
On our upcoming wine tour to South Africa (sold out this year – let us know if you are interested for next year) we have extended the wine regions we visit from “the usual”. Instead
December 1, 2011
“What wines, what food, and what people!!!!”
A while back we received a short enthusiastic email from one of our guests on the wine tour to Piemonte that we had this autumn. The tour was in October and included several wine visits
November 21, 2011
Travel report from Champagne – Chablis – Burgundy | testimonial written by a tour guest
A tailor made tour with The Priory Five days in Champagne, Chablis and Burgundy, is a wine tour that we call The Three Classics. It is one of the most popular tours on our “public”
November 20, 2011
“We are happy, very happy with the wine tour! Perfect planning”
It is now high time (after a hectic season!) that we sit down and collect all the comments that we have had about this autumn’s wine tours. Here is one from Ninni who, with her
November 17, 2011
“We are all very happy with the wine tour to Burgundy!”
A few weeks back we had a custom made wine tour to Burgundy. A small group of wine enthusiasts traveled around the vineyards in Burgundy and tasted many good wines and enjoyed some delicious gourmet
October 12, 2011
“A fantastic experience. All worked perfectly. We look forward to coming on a new tour.”
Jon and Anne from Norway participated in our wine tour to Veneto in northern Italy, out of Verona, earlier this season. The tour included visits and tastings of Valpolicella, Soave, Bardolino and Amarone and some
October 10, 2011
A Champagne Weekend – BKWine in the evening paper
“A Champagne Weekend” is the title of an article that recently appeared in Sweden’s biggest evening newspaper (in the travel section of Aftonbladet: “Aftonbladet Resa Weekend” on September 14, 2011). It is a story of
September 20, 2011
Interviews with winemakers, reportage from wine regions, in South Africa
On our wine tours we meet many winemakers and visit a lot of vineyards. It adds up to around 200-300 vineyards each year for Britt & Per, without counting those that Asa, Martin and the
September 19, 2011
Wine tourism making progress – BKWine in Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is one of the biggest Swedish national daily newspapers. In their Sunday edition they had an article on wine tourism and wine travel in which they mention BKWine. The title of the article
September 19, 2011
Steenberg Vineyards in South Africa – video
Steenberg Vineyards Winery is one of the wine producers that we have had on our trip schedule for our wine tour to South Africa. When we were that last we had the occasion to make
September 13, 2011
Solo Italia writes about our wine and food tours
Solo Italia is a new Swedish magazine about Italy: “food, wine, travel, people, culture” is their tag line. In the very first issue the very first article talks about … BKWine’s wine and food tours
September 7, 2011
