BKWine recently launched the new wine tour and gourmet travel program for the autumn / fall season 2015. On the public program are two classic and luxurious wine tours, one to Bordeaux in France and
This past autumn I was in Rioja. It was the occasion of our first-BKWine wine tour to Rioja. A fantastically successful trip. The Rioja region’s newsletter editor became interested in the tour and in what
If you are thinking of going wine travelling in South America you will inevitably have thought of Mendoza in Argentina. You are not alone in that. Mendoza is the largest wine tour destination in South
Our new wine tour program to Bordeaux has a lot to offer for the lover of fine things. There are few other wine regions that are so luxurious and grand as Bordeaux. We combine the
Our new program for the wine tour to Champagne includes plenty of delights, both bubbly wine and gourmet meals. We take you behind the scenes to some of the very best producers, not just the
Our new tour program for the tour to Veneto, with Valpolicella, Amarone and Soave, is now done. It gives you plenty of wine and food experiences in this beautiful wine region in northern Italy. Here
“Grasp all…” (or as they say in Sweden “he who bids for much…”) is a common saying. But sometimes you can actually aim more than ambitiously and manage it all with flying colours. Our wine
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
Once you find your way behind the famous sights of Tuscany this famous Italian region is both small-scale and personal. In our new travel program to Tuscany, we take you to the most exciting wine
A while back, a mail landed in my in-box with a comment from a person who had been on a tour with us in the Rhone Valley. The tour was tailor-made, a custom designed wine
Recently Jancis Robinson said in her newsletter that “all change in Rioja”. I could not agree more. She was talking about a big wine tasting that one of her collaborators, the ex-El Bulli sommelier Ferran
South Africa has a very diverse restaurant scene. You can find excellent and very affordable restaurants, as well as very expensive. I would not dare to characterise the Western Cape cuisine (which is the extent
The Huffington Post is not only a news site. It also has a lot of interesting contents on travel, wine and food. When a while back it did an article on how to visit vineyards
“A leader in its field, BKWine focuses exclusively on the greatest boutique wineries, avoiding the large and conventional vineyards that many competitors favor” Sicily is a magnificent wine country. It is a beautiful landscape, often
84.7 million foreign tourists visited France in 2013. This makes France the world’s most visited country. In second and third place come the United States (69.8 million) and Spain (60.7 million). With nearly 85 million
Earlier this year there was the big Vinisud wine show in Montpellier. One of the many interesting panels and discussions that took place there was on wine tourism “Original wine tourism for the Mediterranean”. The
A while ago, quite a while actually, All About Food (Allt om Mat, Sweden’s biggest food magazine) had a special issue on wine. Among other things, they talked about travel, and specifically about BKWine’s wine
The Swedish Magazine Underbara Resor (Wonderful Travel) published some time ago an article on wine travel in South Africa. The article mentions some detail of our wine tours to South Africa so I wanted to
Travel Gluttons is a site dedicated to exploring the world through wine and food: “The aim of Travel Gluttons is to tell the story of travel through food and food through travel”. They recently featured
The Douro Valley makes some outstanding wines but it is also a spectacularly beautiful landscape. The river meanders through a landscape where wine growing has put its mark almost everywhere. Whichever way you look there
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
“In 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town wrote in his log book that a certain Jan Blanx, arquebusier on the ship, was sentenced to fall from the yard arm [a boom half
Two new wine and food tours are on the winter program from the wine tour specialist BKWine: Chile & Argentina, and South Africa. The tour to South America takes place in February and the South
Both Barolo and Barbaresco have just been selected to be featured on the prestigious list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. During UNESCO Standing Committee meeting in Qatar recently they decided to approve Barolo and Barbaresco’s
