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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A visit to Nitida in Durbanville On our most recent South Africa wine tour we expanded the reach a bit. We added Durbanville as a new region on the program, in addition to the classics
A wine tour in South Africa doesn’t have to start with visits to wine estates. Especially if you arrive with the over-night flight on a Saturday and your first day of action is a Sunday.
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
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
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
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
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
Tuscany has Chianti Classico more or less as its centre, the famous wine district that was recently named Wine Capital of the Year, but that is not the only thing they have. Åsa, our person
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.
Chianti Classico, the heart of Tuscany, has been elected wine region and wine capital of the year Each year the Swedish wine tasting association Munskankarna (with over 20,000 members) elects a Wine Capital of the
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
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
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
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”
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
We were fortunate (you have to create your own luck!) to have a magnificent lunch and wine tasting at the wine tour we recently organised in the Languedoc-Roussillon. This district certainly merits becoming much better
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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,
In the August issue of Decanter magazine they have an article that is a guide on what not to miss when you are in Florence. On the list of the six wineries not to miss
