WINE TRAVEL STORIES AND HIGHLIGHTS features personal travelogues, tour glimpses, and selected highlights from our completed wine region journeys. Written by Britt and Per Karlsson—along with guest posts from fellow travellers—these accounts capture the essence and soul of what our trips are all about: your enjoyment, discovery, and deeper connection with the wine, the regions, and the winemakers you meet. Entertainment and education, edutainment! Get a true feel for what you will experience when travelling with us.
A story from a wine tour to Chile and Argentina It’s amazing how long it takes for new realities to pierce the membrane of old truths and commonly held beliefs. That’s Chile in a nutshell.
Catalonia in north-east Spain produces some wonderful wine and is home to a fantastic gastronomy. This video simply gives you some glimpses into the vineyards, the landscape and some of the wines it makes. On
Cava, the famous sparkling wine of Spain, is made in a similar way to many other sparkling wines, Franciacorta, Champagne, South African MCC etc. First you make a still white wine. Then you bottle it
Paëlla is a very Spanish dish. Usually one thinks of Paella Valenciana (from Valencia) when talking about it. But it is made in many different places in Spain. Want to discover some genuine paella? Then
“The journey that is the most delicious” is when you are traveling around in South African vineyards, says Anna Norström in one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet, “In South Africa there are wineries close
In most cases, when you visit a winery, it is to taste the wine, talk to the winemaker and see the vineyard and cellar. Only on the rare occasion you also get the possibility to
Perhaps the most important thing – apart from the location itself, the wine region – for a successful wine tour is that you get to meet the “right” people. People who have a story to
Have you ever heard people say “There’s a generation shift, the ‘new generation’ is reviving our wine region”? It is often said about many a wine region. I think that is just, well, to use
The first time I came to Mendoza on a wine tour in Argentina I planned to travel over the Andes by bus. I had heard much about that road trip. The road reaches 3000 metres
Argentina is a long way away. When in Argentina, Mendoza is a long way away. Two hours’ flight time from Buenos Aires. When in Mendoza, the Uco Valley is a long way away. And almost
Travelling in the South African wine regions can be full of surprises at Rickety Bridge Winery It looked very curious. The clouds were pouring over the edge of the mountain tops in the Franschhoek Valley.
Blending wine as a ”real” winemaker I am not going to exaggerate and say that I am now a full blown wine maker. But I was very happy with my very own blend, made at
Some of the most exclusive and highest rated wines in Italy can be found up north, in Piedmont (or Piemonte, as the Italians say). There you can find Barolo and Barbaresco, the powerful tense wines
Vinofil is a Swedish wine blogger who writes about wine recommendations, tasted wines and some food. It’s inevitable that sit up straight when Vinofil writes “come with us to the southern Rhone valley”! We can
Spicy wines, with aromas of thyme, rosemary, herbs and with plenty of fruit and warmth. Almost the same things can be said about the food, plus sun-drenched vegetables, grilled meat, seafood and cheeses. We’re talking
If you go on a wine tour to Chile then you will have the occasion to taste many, many exciting wines and delicious meals. But if you go to Chile you also must try at
Languedoc offers almost everything you could wish for. Magnificent scenery with the sea and the mountains always close by. Good food, picturesque small towns, cultural cities. And – here comes the best part – enormously
Quite a lot of wines tasted on the South American wine tour Over fourteen days you have the time to taste quite a few wines and visit quite a few vineyards. It can sometimes even
Alsace is the only wine region in France that is entirely focused on grape varieties, although more and more wine producers now emphasise the importance of the terroir. There are many different wine styles and
A super-Tuscan wine tour lunch at the prestigious Antinori winery Tenuta di Biserno is one of the new wineries in Maremma on the Tuscan coast. It is one of the wineries that produce the famous
Sancerre, one of the wine villages on our Three Classics wine tour Sancerre is perhaps most famous for two things: Fist of all its delicious, refreshing, elegant yet structured white wines made from sauvignon blanc.
Porto is at the mouth of the Douro River, where it joins the Atlantic. It is the historic and economic centre of the port wine trade. It is also a great place to visit! Porto,
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
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’
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
