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
We’ve just published a new city guide: on Beaune, the “capital” of Burgundy and one of the most charming towns in Bourgogne. It is also the base for most of our wine tours to Burgundy,
We’ve added a new city guide: on Bordeaux. Click on the “Resources” section in the menus.
This is what we wrote in our press release about this prestigious award: “A Wine is Born: the work in the vineyard and in the wine cellar” won the category “best drinks book”, a category
With 13 things we remember from the wine year 2010 Here’s the first part of the introduction: 2010 is rapidly approaching its end. It is often the occasion to summarize what’s happened over the year,
TravlingMom.com is a web site with travel and tourism information for women. Here’s what they said about BKWine: Paris-based Britt Karlsson, highly experienced founder of BKWine programs, offers three glorious gastronomic trips for women this
Ottawa Citizen writes about Portugal as one of the exciting wine tour destinations: Lisbon and the touristy Algarve on the country’s southern margin. The area has a distinctive cuisine — porco alentejana, a mix of
Easier travel is a travel web site, part of easier.com, with tourism and travel information. Here’s what they wrote about BKWine: The delights of Bordeaux – Truffles, wine, foie gras and duck Truffles, wine, foie
Budget Travel, an American travel magazine, runs a series of articles on “the best places you’ve never heard of” where travel specialists give the readers their inside tips. They interviewed Britt on one of the
The French television channel FR3 (or France 3) made a reportage on one of the BKWine wine tours, when we visited Chateau Montus. Chateau Montus is the leading wine estate in the Madiran district in
