Today was a foodies’ delight- food, wine and culture! First we started with a guided walking tour of Modena; many beautiful historical sights but my personal favorite: the duomo where…
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I hadn’t known that Rachel Ray fell in love with Montepulciano until one of our participants told me today but I understand totally why. It’s a wine lovers’s hideaway with…
So said Neill Bassford, co-owner of Elk Run Vineyards in Maryland, veteran tour alumnus and one of the participants in our recently ended Bordeaux 201. Let me emphasize that this…
Today we started our quest for affordable bordeaux. After days of tastings at cru classé wineries, all of today’s visits were to cru bourgeois estates. The designation cru bourgeois was…
Planning wine tours depends on making good contacts and everyday you are on a quest for new contacts.
Bordeaux is on the tip of every winemaker’s tongue- and rightfully so. Ever since the Classification of 1855, Bordeaux has set the standards for winemaking and winemakers. Most people don’t…
Well, we leave mainland Portugal tomorrow for Madeira which will be a completely different experience. But we had a wonderful final day: we left Galicia at 9:30am which was really…
We docked yesterday in Porto and left immediately for Galicia and our lunch appointment at Pazo de Galegos. This visit was set up courtesy of Patrick Mata of Ole Imports…
Today we had a special treat: our tasting at El Porvenir winery was conducted in the personal home of the owner. Juan Carlos Romero is a former governor of Salta…
Image of Château Pradeaux via Snooth We started the Provence tour with our traditional welcome dinner and had as our guest Pascal Courbard of Chateau Beaupré (Aix en Provence AOC)…
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