“For the first time in world history” (as one might say) South Africa organises a wine tourism show. It is called Vindaba and takes place on September 26-27 this year, in parallel to Cape Wine,
Alentejo is a wine region in Portugal that has gone through a revolution in recent decades. From having been a remote and very rural region east of Lisbon it has become one of the wine
Bordeaux is one of the classic wine tour destinations, always in great demand. Catalonia in north-eastern Spain is, perhaps surprisingly, more of a niche destination. We have wine tours to Bordeaux on a very regular
A colleague in the wine business with a sharp eye, who happens to be Australian, spotted a mention of BKWine in Gourmet Traveller Wine in their May/June 2011 issue. Gourmet Traveller Wine is an Australian
Jancis Robinson is one of the world’s most famous wine writers and probably one of the most travelled too so she has seen a few wine regions. In a recent posting on her site she
Austria is one of those wine regions that when you go there you think “why didn’t I come here before?” Not only has it excellent wines, both white and red but it has beautiful scenery
Monica and Jorgen F travelled with BKWine to Italy, visiting Piedmont and Veneto. The wine tour included visits and tastings at a number of the top producers in Barolo that underlined what wonderful wines they
We have a wine tour planned for Croatia this autumn so we’re constantly keeping a lookout for new information about Croatian wines. They are not very well known internationally but will probably gain a better
When someone writes about our wine tours it is usually by chance that we find out about it. In this case the author actually told us herself, and we are very grateful to Clare Walters
It always makes us happy when someone sends us an email after having been to one of our tours. It is of course especially nice if we get some positive feedback and accolade! Christina and
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
