Here you will find information about upcoming wine tours and about tours that have been. We talk about plans for future trips and tell stories about what’s happened when we travel in wine regions. Sometimes we have articles about wine tourism in general and also posts with lovely pictures from wine regions and wine countries that we have visited.
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The big gap in The Wine Enthusiast’s Best Wine Travel! A few days back I wrote about The Wine Enthusiast’s selection of the The World’s Top Ten Wine Travel Destinations. WineToursimInFrance.com picked up on the
We say a big congratulation to Chateau Lestrille in Bordeaux. They were recently given an award in the prestigious competition Best of Wine Tourism, Great Wine Capitals. The competition aims to encourage forward-looking initiatives in
Vinavisen, the biggest wine newsletter in Denmark, has made a selection of their top ten wine tour destinations for you. Here are the first five on their list. The perspective is much more European on
Wine tour to Alsace, with wine, food and beautiful landscapes It is strange this thing with, Alsace and Alsatian wines. But you cannot help loving them, and all the gastronomic goodies from the region. As
The US wine magazine publishes its choice of best wine regions to visit The list of the top ten wine travel destinations, according to the US wine magazine The Wine Enthusiast, includes some big surprises
What it’s like wine touring in Champagne No other wines are so tied to festive moments as champagne. No other wine is so self-evident when it is time for a celebration. But champagne is so
A wine tour to the biggest island of the Mediterranean, with a unique gastronomy and (wine) culture Sicily, the Mediterranean Sea’s biggest island, today makes wines that compete among Italy’s best. The island also has
The most spectacular wine region in Portugal and perhaps in the world Along the Douro Valley there are several different wine regions but the port wine district is undoubtedly the best known. The Douro River
Making a blend is one of the most important skills of a wine producer. Try it yourself on a BKWine tour! Most wines are actually a blend of several different “base wines”. A big part
A treasure trove of wine and food in the southernmost part of France: Languedoc-Roussillon Some wine regions are very famous, sometimes for good reasons, but there are also rather unknown wine districts that really would
Wine and photography, and perhaps a wine photography tour? All of the pictures you see on this site come from the wine tours that we organise. It is not bought-in stock photography of tourist offices’
Many people directly think of port wine when you mention the Douro Valley or the city of Porto in northern Portugal. And of course it is correct, this is where port wine comes from. But
New sample wine travel program: amarone, Valpolicella, Soave, Bardolino Amarone, Valpolicella, Soave…. The wines ave extremely popular today. Our wine tours to Veneto, around Verona, where they make these wines, are also very popular, among
A traveller’s report from the Douro Valley wine tour with a restaurant recommendation in Oporto K & B travelled with us on the Douro Valley wine tour in northern Portugal this autumn. The tour starts
Italian lunches tend to take quite a long time and tend to include a lot of different things. It is almost inevitable to start with some charcuteries, dried ham, sausages and cheese (but who would
The Fattoria Poggerino is one of the few organic and biodynamic wineries in Chianti. It is run by Piero and Benedetta Lanza, brother and sister. Piero runs the wine cellar and Benedetta runs their agriturismo
At the recent EWBC, Digital Wine Communications Conference (ex-European Wine Bloggers Conference, #EWBC, #EWBC12) there was a panel debate on “Travel, Food and Wine in Context”. It was about how you can communicate about wine,
The wine tour in Tuscany took us to the Caiarossa winery on the Tuscan coast. It is a quite recent project created by the Dutch businessman Eric Albada Jelgersma. The winery is beautifully located in
A friendly family restaurant to visit when wine touring in Tuscany If you are coming on one of our wine tours to Tuscany it is likely that you will spend a day or two (or
One of the wine producers on Sicily that has been much talked about recently is Giusti Occhipinit at COS. the main reason is of course that he makes excellent wines, but it is also because
“Colombaia Azienda Agricola Nadia Castagnedi” is the full name, but everyone just calls it Colombaia. The winery and vineyards is run by Dante Lomazzi, winemaker, and Helena Variara. We were there recently on our wine
We had a fabulous wine tour two weeks ago in Bordeaux, including Saint Emilion, Pomerol and Castillon. We talked with the winemakers about the new Saint Emilion classification (the very day it was published!), about
The wine tour to Bordeaux last week included many good wines and delicious food. We visited both some prestigious and impressive chateau as well as smaller, family owned and family run wine estates. Here are
The BKWine Brief is our editorial wine newsletter. It is published on BKWine Magazine and is sent to the readers once a month. In the latest issue we have articles on, for example, the new
AOL Travel lists their top selection of the best wine tour vacations “Cheers! Ten of the best wine tasting holidays”, is the title of an article by Roshina Jowaheer on AOL Travel. Roshina has made
