Blog
Welcome to my blog about wine tourism, a fun topic that I feel passionate about. I got interested in the subject a few years ago when I started writing wine books. I was struck by the fact that they don’t make wine in ugly places. Each location I visited was more knockout beautiful than the last.
I’ve since visited some of the most famous wineries in the world such as Château Lafite Rothschild in Bordeaux but also some little known like the Bernhardt Winery in Texas just outside Houston.
So what makes great wine tourism? Each place is special and often different. The most important thing for me is to feel that you are welcome. I have a very telling picture from a winery in Bordeaux taken a couple of years back that says “Visitors Not Welcome.” That used to be the attitude of a lot of wineries in Bordeaux, but things have changed. Almost all of them now welcome visitors, although you often still have to make reservations.
I’ve written several reports on this site about my own visits to wineries large and small. I hope you will also post your own experiences. It’s a big wine world out there, and even though I’ve been to a lot of places, there are still many more that I haven’t visited. With the release of my latest book, I hope to build the internet's first online wine tourism community at www.travel4wine.com.
So let’s get started swapping information. In my new book “In Search of Bacchus—Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism,” I wrote that my favorite region of the 12 I visited around the world was Tuscany.
It had great scenery, excellent wine, wine/food together, and visitors are welcome. What’s your favorite winery experience.
