Tag: wine tasting
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Where Tempranillo & Tradition Meet: A Wine Tour of Rioja Alavesa, Spain
As we motored through the Rioja Alavesa wine country in northern Spain, a golden landscape dotted with hilltop monasteries, sweeping vineyards, and walled towns with window boxes overflowing with red geraniums, I reflected on what we had absorbed that day. In a region famed for wine we’d enjoyed much wonderful vino, of course, but we also…
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Santorini Wine: From an Eruption to Effervescence
Taste the volcanic soul of Santorini wine on a bespoke tour. Learn about unique wreath-grown vines and mineral-rich flavors born from lava, pumice, and limestone.
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Mingling Over Macedonian Wines: A Wine Tasting & Lecture in Skopje
North Macedonia’s legacy of winemaking goes back to the 13th Century BCE, and today the southeast European nation’s industry is witnessing a rebirth. On our first night in the country’s capital, Skopje, we were lucky to be taken under the wing of Ivana Simjanovska, one of the country’s foremost wine experts, as we attended a wine…
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A Long Weekend in California Wine Country: Getting a Taste for Napa and Sonoma Wines (Part 2)
Note: This is part two of the series, Long Weekend in California Wine Country. Click the image for part one.
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The Hunt for the ‘Original Zin’: A Wine Tasting Tour of Croatia
We started the day in the seaside city of Trogir, Croatia on a quest to find Zinfandel’s ancestral home. By the day’s end, we’d not only savored many splendid glasses of wine, we’d also acquired a greater appreciation of Croatian culture while broadening our circle of international friends. Our wine tasting tour in Split and…
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A Long Weekend in California Wine Country: Getting a Taste for Napa and Sonoma Wines (Part 1)
“I should like to spend the whole of my life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.” William Hazlitt There seems to exist a syndrome among international travelers and expats. They’ve visited the world’s most far-flung destinations, but haven’t seen much of what their home countries have to…
