Sometimes it is a bit surprising how interviews turn out once they end up in print, as this article in the Daily Herald: Sturdy shoes essential to wine tour success, where they interviewed Britt of
“The European forum for wine roads and for local economic development” is the long name of a conference on wine tourism, or oenotoursim as they say in France. It will be attended by a number
Travel Weekly is “the national newspaper of the travel industry” according to it’s tag line. We were very glad to see recently an article that they wrote on our wine tours at BKWine. The popularity
“Looking forward to coming on another of your tours!” – that is what one of our travellers said on the wine and food tour we had in Tuscany recently (in spite of the Italian railways
AskMen.comhas made a ranking of the world’s top ten wine regions, considered as travel destinations. The ranking is based on a variety of factors, including e.g. new thinking in the regions (!). Here is their
We were recently on a wine tour to Bordeaux. Many exciting winery visits and a lot of wines tasted. We will have reason to come back to that here soon. Here is a comment from
Guido Schwengersbauer has lived in Croatia for many, many years. Today he runs a charming small hotel called La Parenzana in the small village of Buje on the Istrian peninsula. One of his passions is
The autumn wine tour program is now available from BKWine, a tour operator specialised in wine and food tours. The scheduled tours for this fall include two destinations: Bordeaux and Burgundy. The detailed programs are
Plenty of people have found good reasons to travel in both Croatia and Slovenia — think unspoiled Adriatic coastlines, well-preserved Roman sites, medieval hilltop villages, rugged alpine scenery and wild mountain walks. Now there’s another
We have finalised all the details for the wine and food tour to South Africa in March 2012. We can promise an even better wine travel experience than last time! We will of course spend
Wine tourism is of increasing importance to the country the South African Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, explained in a recent talk reported in Business Live. He estimated that wine tourism accounts for around
Wine travel in Chablis, Champagne and Bourgogne Perhaps we should call it our CCB Tour but it would sound too much like BBC and it might give the wrong kind of ideas. We certainly want
We occasionally organise wine and truffles tours. You spend a morning “hunting” truffles with a truffle dog in the forest. After a long and exciting morning we go inside to warm up (truffle season is
Sommelier India is an online wine magazine. It is frequently updated and has a wealth of inforamtion on both wine, wine tasting, wine business, and …. wine travel. They recently published an article on wine
We just got back from Istria, Croatia, where we spent a few days tasting interesting wines and eating superb Istrian ham. Istria is the northern part of the Croatian coast, a region that is bilingual
We just won a book prize that we are very proud of: Best Wine Book in the World for Professionals 2010, awarded by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011. It is our book “Ett vin
We have just published a new issue of our wine newsletter, #91 of the BKWine Brief. In it you find news on wine, our picks of wine producers and restaurants and much more. In this
“Les assises de l’oenotourisme” is the elegant official name of the event that will take place on February 3 in the Languedoc. It sound perhaps a bit less prestigious if you translate it — the
Wine tourism, or oenotourisme, is a trendy subject in France these days. La Vigne, one of the professional wine magazines recently had a special issue on it. There is a national wine tourism prize. There
A new wine bar has just opened in Bordeaux: l’Introuvable, and indeed it is not easy to find on the rue des Bouviers. It’s not far from the end of Rue Ste Catherine and the
We recently launched a wine tour that is 100% organic, meaning that all the producers we visit are organic or biodynamic. This has been picked up by the second largest morning paper in Sweden, Svenska
The Vacqueyras appellation in the southern Rhone Valley is celebrating the 20 years since it was created. In 1990 Vacqueyras was given its own independent appellation. Before that it was “just” a sub-appellation of Cotes-du-Rhone.
We have just launched a new wine tour to Burgundy in October. This is the introduction to the program: Burgundy — exclusive, elusive, enchanting Some of the most unique wines in the world — reds
We have just published the program for the Bordeaux wine tour in October. In Bordeaux you find world famous châteaux and world famous wines but also a lot of new exciting initiatives — less famous
We’ve just published a new region guide. This is the first of our regional guides to the wine districts that we visit on the BKWine wine tours. It is an introduction to the wines of
