
What are the Best Wineries to visit in Tuscany? Here’s our Top 10: We spent 5 glorious days in Tuscany focusing on the areas of Chianti Classico, Montepuciano and Montalcino…
What are the Best Wineries to visit in Tuscany? Here’s our Top 10: We spent 5 glorious days in Tuscany focusing on the areas of Chianti Classico, Montepuciano and Montalcino…
The European Capital of Culture for 2019 will be the Italian province of Basilicata. Normally this honor should bring pride to the local citizens, and also the prospect of tourists…
Yannick Heude lives in St. Malo, about as far away from a wine region in France as you can get. But he’s a serious wine lover who also owns a wine…
This may come as a surprise: Lebanon is a serious wine making country. It came as a surprise to me but several years ago I attended a trade tasting sponsored…
We just finished our outstanding tour of the Loire Valley wine country and came away with a much better appreciation of the high quality of the wines from one end…
Castles of the Loire A visit to the Loire Valley always includes castles because there are hundreds from one end to the other. This used to be the playground of…
Today we move to Nantes to meet up with our river cruise but not before stopping in Saumur for a tasting of sparkling wines at Gratien and Meyer. This large…
The beauty of a river cruise is that you unpack once because the boat is your hotel for 8 days. We’ve planned special private excursions to wineries but have also…
Chateau du Petit Thouars We were greeted at the Chateau by Sebastien du Petit Thouars who inherited the title of Count from his father. We last visited this estate when…
Our first visit Saturday was to the Marc Brédif winery, located in vast troglodyte caves that date back to the 10th century. There are over 2 kilometers of galleries where…