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The impossible favourite wine, with or without tannins
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There is no real answer to the eternal question “what is your favourite wine”; not for us and probably not for other wine enthusiasts. Much of the fun of wine is about discovery. Discovering new wines, new wine regions, new characters. And just as much about variety.
However, you can, of course, have a style preference, at least in general. Some prefer light, juicy wines, while others seek astringent tannins or muscular wines with pronounced oak flavours. Most people, however, don’t want the same style every time they drink wine, just as they don’t want to eat the same food every day.
Equally challenging to answer is the popular question “which wine did you prefer” after a wine tasting. Wine is very much about comparison. When you taste a producer’s production – as we did at many wineries during our winter tours to Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand – it is natural to compare the wines, even if they are so different that they should be judged on their own merits. Come to Alsace and try to decide whether you like the winemaker’s riesling or pinot gris best. Or in Bordeaux, to say which vintage you prefer, all have different styles but with their own characters.
However, it is still often a question worth asking, not least to prompt yourself (or others) to form an opinion and not just sit back and say “everything is so good” even if your preference may be different the next day.
The problem when comparing can also be that some more “low-key” wines, which are in fact very good, appear in a less favourable light when compared to fuller and more powerful wines. A symphony orchestra is more impressive and overwhelming than a cello solo, even though the latter can be more enjoyable.
You don’t have to choose, you can like everything, but some more (or less) for different occasions, different types of food, different types of company, different weather.
At a wine tasting, there will also inevitably be discussions about tannins and acidity. You can have different opinions about these. We appreciate tannins and acidity. We consider them essential and desirable components in a wine. If you are a loyal reader of the Brief, you have likely heard us mention this before. But it deserves to be repeated.
We have just returned from this year’s wine tour in New Zealand. A producer there, internationally highly regarded, wondered if there might be too much tannins in some of his pinot noir wines. We didn’t think so, and neither did he. But people don’t want tannins, he said. It’s a shame. Tannins are important. Wines with low tannin levels can be too soft and uninteresting. Although there are counter-examples, lovely aromatic Beaujolais wines or certain juicy “natural wines” to mention but two. Here, however, there is instead a healthy dose of acidity that lends freshness.
The tannins can be either discreet in the background or more prominent, depending on the style and context, but they should not feel like sandpaper.
It is the tannins, among other things, that make a wine different from other drinks you can have with your meal. In fact, it is the tannins that make wine such a perfect accompaniment to dinner. If the tannins are not present, a refreshing acidity can serve a similar purpose, providing the wine with freshness and vitality. Tannin and acidity are the pillars of a wine that we would not want to be without. The backbone of wine.
Summer in Winter Time
Last night we arrived home from the last of our wine tours, the tour to New Zealand. It was a long trip home (and going there); 24 hours of flight time and just over thirty hours of travel time in total. But it’s worth it. It’s well spent “suffering” in order to experience this very special and sometimes misunderstood (*) wine world on the exact other end of the globe from Europe. ( (*) there is far more to discover than over-aromatic Sauvignon wines)
It was this year’s third winter wine tour. January offered Chile and Argentina and February offered South Africa. It is in many ways a privilege for us to be able to share these fantastic wine countries with so many wine enthusiasts. All four countries are wonderful countries to travel in and are today thoroughly established as wine countries that produce top quality, something that you may not always realize when you see the often far too gluggable international brands that are spread from these countries on to the international markets. But oh (!) so much talent to be found there, on site.
All three tours will be back next winter. We don’t promise summer, sun, and beach in the middle of northern winter, but we can without hesitation promise summer, sun, wine and gastronomy (and a little beach if you want). See how it’s been this year in these three tour Facebook groups:
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- New Zealand wine tour on Facebook
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New Bordeaux Tour
Our Burgundy and Rhone Valley tour has had such a success so it is currently fully booked. So, we have decided to add a new tour this coming autumn season: a new five-day extravagant Bordeaux tour.
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What’s on at BKWine Tours
BKWine is also one of the world’s leading wine tour operators. Here’s what we currently have on our scheduled wine tour program:
- Burgundy and the Rhone Valley, 17-25 September 2025
- Bordeaux, wine, gastronomy, chateaux, 28 September – 4 October 2025
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- Chile-Argentina, 12-25 January 2026
- South Africa, 15-25 February 2026
- New Zealand, 10-25 March 2026
We also make custom designed wine tours.
We’re different than most other wine tour operators. We are people who know wine inside out, who travel constantly in wine regions, who write award winning books about wine. Who do this out of passion.
Our wine tours are different from others.
A typical year we organise more than 30 wine tours to destinations across the world. In Europe: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and more. World-wide: South Africa, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand. Thanks to our Scandinavian background we have a separate offer for the Scandinavian market. These are sometimes offered in English and also available as custom made tours. For example, these destinations:
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Read our books
We have written eleven wine books. They have won awards from the Gourmand Awards, The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) and others.
Unfortunately, only one of them has been translated to English; the others are (so far) only available in Swedish. This is the one that is available in English:
Here’s the full list of our books:
- The Wonderful World of Wine
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- Champagne, the Wine and the Growers
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News from the World of Wine
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Short briefs on what’s been happening in the world of wine recently and other interesting things.
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Peter Babish dies at 92, a giant of the New Zealand wine industry
When people talk about the wines of New Zealand, the 1980s is often mentioned as the starting point of the wine industry. However, the country has some famous pioneers who immigrated to New Zealand in the early 1900s and started making wine. The Babish family are such pioneers. They have been producing wines in New Zealand since 1916, making Babish Wines the country’s oldest still active winery. Recently, Peter Babish died at 92 years old. His father Josip, originally from Croatia, founded Babish Wines. (Many Croats came to New Zealand.) Today Babish Wines are among the ten biggest wine producers in New Zealand. The business started in the Henderson Valley close to Auckland, the country’s biggest city, and the headquarters are still there with vineyards mainly planted with the Spanish white grape albariño. The bulk of the production comes from Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay. Read more: babichwines
Travel: Come on a wine tour to New Zealand with BKWine.
See: See pictures and videos from New Zealand 2024 in the wine tour’s Facebook group (or 2025 ongoing).
A “roller coaster” vintage 2024 for Austria
The Austrian winemakers have now taken stock of the 2024 vintage. Austrian Wine describes it as a “roller-coaster ride”. Frosts, hail storms and violent rain made the growing season challenging. The harvest volume was small but the quality seems to please the producers, with white wines with good fruit, body, and balanced acidity. The red wines, good coloured and concentrated, may well be one of the best years in the last few decades. The early arrival of warm spring temperatures prompted the vines to bud ahead of schedule. Late frosts struck some areas late April, causing damage mostly in low-lying vineyards but also in vineyards in the Kamptal and Wachau regions. The flowering period was also earlier than usual. Humid conditions during this time led to coulure, resulting in a reduced fruit set. From June, the hot summer weather made for a speedy growth; some regions, however, again suffered some hail damage. Read more: austrianwine
Médoc gets the go-ahead for white wines
The Médoc peninsula in Bordeaux is known for its many prestigious chateaux. And for its red wines. The eight Médoc appellations have always been red-only. (Small quantities of white has been made but had to be labelled as generic “bordeaux”.) But now this is changing. Three of the appellations will be allowed to produce white wines from the 2025 vintage. Not surprisingly, it is not the most prestigious appellations (Pauillac, Margaux, etc) that are concerned. The chosen ones are the Médoc, Haut-Médoc and Listrac appellations. Many producers are happy with this decision; white wines are sought after today. And we are happy too because we feel that Bordeaux makes too little white wine. Perhaps white wines can also help unknown chateaux to sell their red wines as well. The grapes are the usual white ones in Bordeaux. Sauvignon blanc, sauvignon gris, sémillon and muscadelle will be the main grapes. They can add 15% chardonnay if they want. The more southern grapes alvarinho, liliorila and viognier and the resistant hybrids floréal, sauvignac and souvignier gris can also be planted in smaller quantities. Read more: vitisphere
Travel: Come on a wine tour to Bordeaux with BKWine. (PS: We’ve written a prize-winning book on Bordeaux.)
Brilliant harvest 2025 in South Africa
In February when we were on this year’s wine tour in South Africa, the harvest was in full swing. They were just over halfway through and everyone already agreed that 2025 would be a brilliant vintage. We saw only happy faces. DP Burger, winemaker at Glenwood in Franschhoek, said that 2025 would probably be the best vintage since 2006, a top year. Wynand Grobler at De Kleine Wijn Koöp in Tulbagh/Swartland talked about perfect pH and balanced acidity. Everything points to it being of very good quality overall. We tasted both the freshly pressed must and wine that was halfway through fermentation and wine that had just finished fermenting and we can attest to the quality (although it is not entirely easy to taste such new wines…). Get read to greet the great 2025 vintage from South Africa.
Travel: Come on a wine tour to South Africa with BKWine. 2025 tour soon to be launched.
See: See pictures and videos from South Africa 2025 in the wine tours Facebook group.
Gallo: Concentration of power in the American wine industry
The American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) recently revealed the top 25 US wine suppliers/producers based on sales and market share in 2023. It confirms the dominance of the Gallo Winery – United States’ and the world’s biggest wine producer – with 32.6 % market share in the US. It is quite an extraordinary dominance in the wine world. In many other countries the market is much more fragmented. At second and third place, The Wine Group and Constellation do not even come close with 10,3% and 6,4% respectively. Gallo is still a private family-owned company based in California with several family members holding key positions. They have around 100 different brands so the chances are that you have been drinking a Gallo wine at some point in your life (Apothic, Barefoot, Clos du Bois, Dark Horse etc. that you might not have realised was Gallo). Beyond the top five, no single supplier holds more than 4% of America’s wine market share. The bottom 10 have less than 1% each, emphasising the significant concentration of market power at the top. See the full list of the 25 biggest here: vinepair
Swedes want a freer alcohol market – for the most part
Support for “farm sales” (cellar-door sales at wineries, currently forbidden), a current hot-potato issue in Sweden, has increased in Sweden, according to the recent “SOM survey” conducted at the University of Gothenburg. Despite the intensive campaign against farm sales by some organisations , more and more people want to allow it. In 2024, support rose by four percent to 58%. In other respects, Swedes also seem to be moving towards a more liberal view. “The results from this year deviate from the last five or six years in an alcohol-liberal direction. ‘Farm sales’ is a liberalising reform, so it may have had an impact in some way on other areas,” says David Karlsson, professor at the University of Gothenburg. However, the survey shows that support for Systembolaget is still strong, but despite this, 32% want to follow the same path as Finland and allow the sale of stronger alcoholic beverages in grocery stores (currently, only beer under 3.5% ABV is allowed). It is interesting to note that those surveyed believe that alcohol tax is one of the most effective tools for limiting consumption – not the monopoly. The survey says that those who regularly drink alcohol have a more liberal attitude. This group has, however, a comparatively high level of trust in Systembolaget (the Swedish retail monopoly) but is nevertheless more inclined to abolish the monopoly. Swedes’ attitudes towards the monopoly is undeniably full of paradoxes. Read more: accentmagasin
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Features of the Month
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Articles and features published on BKWine Magazine and on our wine travel blog and (occasionally) photography blog in the last month.
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Prepare to go to New Zealand by reading their detective novels
“Reading books from a country that you are going to visit can be an excellent way to get acquaintanced with it. Or afterwards, to reminiscence about what you have experienced. We like to read crime novels from the countries we visit. New Zealand is hardly known for its crime writers. Perhaps that is an oversight due to the country’s distance from… everything. In fact, one of the most prominent crime writers in history was from New Zealand, often mentioned in the company of other crime-writing greats such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham. Together they are sometimes called the four “queens of crime”. Her name was Ngaio March. She was born and died in Christchurch but most of her 32 detective novels are set in London, starring Chief Inspector Alleyn. But back to more recent thriller writers, here are some recommendations (NB: the titles mentioned are just examples, look for the name of the author):…”
Read more in Per’s article on BKWine’s Travel Blog: New Zealand is a country of talented crime writers.
Travel: Come on a wine tour to New Zealand with BKWine.
See: See pictures and videos from New Zealand 2024 in the wine tour’s Facebook group.
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From Burgundy to the Rhone Valley: unique wines, world famous villages, Provençal atmosphere | wine tour
Our tour starts in Burgundy. The word recalls a very special wine region and a very special wine. It makes us think of gently rolling hills. Vineyards as far as the eye can see. Winding country roads, small rural villages, unique wines, and excellent French gastronomy. It is a small region, at least the heart of the region, the Côte d’Or, where we will be staying. Here, the small, archetypal French villages lie like a string of pearls along the country road in a gently rolling landscape with vineyards and forests: Gevrey-Chambertin, Fixin, Pommard, Meursault, Vosne-Romanée, Puligny-Montrachet and so on. Even the largest town, Beaune, where we stay, has a distinct small-town feel to it. It is only a ten-minute walk from the main square in the centre and you are out in the vineyards.
After Burgundy we continue south to the Rhône Valley. The Rhône is a region in constant motion today. New things are happening all the time. New producers are constantly coming into the spotlight. Now and then, growers leave a cooperative and start making wine independently. New appellations are created. This is an exciting development for a region that has long been associated with simple and inexpensive wines. This has changed fundamentally. Not everything is expensive, of course, but there are big stars here today whose wines command high prices as well as extraordinary value-for-money wines. The Rhône Valley is an exciting region to follow today. If you like grapes like grenache, syrah and cinsault, there is no better place. We get to know some of these exciting producers, enjoy Provençal meals, learn French history in the form of the Papal Palace, and experience a beautiful landscape.
This tour is currently fully booked. Why not join us on our new five-day Bordeaux tour that we have just added due to the high demand?
Come and discover French wine and food in Burgundy and the Rhone Valley on this luxurious wine tour with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
- The Grand French Wine tour to Burgundy and the Rhône Valley, 17-25 September, 2025
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
Bordeaux, “The Original” | wine tour
Many people have an opinion about Bordeaux. It can be positive or negative. It is rarely neutral. For many, Bordeaux is the most classic of all wines, the wine against which all other wines are measured. It is the region that provided large parts of the rest of the wine world with “Bordeaux varieties” (merlot, cabernets,…). But others find Bordeaux too expensive and too pretentious. And too tannic. Not really true today. Bordeaux is above all a very large region and it is impossible to generalise. But some do it anyway, and it all turns out wrong. That is why Bordeaux today has many prejudices to fight against. On this tour, we will show you The True Bordeaux, The Original Bordeaux. Bordeaux is not expensive (some wines are indeed costly, but far from all), you can undoubtedly encounter some pretentious people here (though not on our tours), and the wines are not too tannic. They have just the right amount of tannins, perfect to combine with food. We visit big châteaux, medium-sized châteaux, and small growers. You will see that Bordeaux is like any other wine region, only with slightly more beautiful châteaux and slightly more beautiful wine cellars… But they must fight against the forces of the weather and the markets just like any other wine farmer. However, our magnificent gastronomic châteaux lunches, you can only get them in Bordeaux, and only on this wine tour.
Come and discover French wine and food in Bordeaux on this luxurious wine tour with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
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- Bordeaux wine tour, 28 September – 4 October
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
An adventure in Chile and Argentina | wine tour
Our wine tour to South America is always an adventure. We visit the continent’s two largest wine countries, Argentina and Chile. They are close to each other and separated by the mighty Andes Mountain range. After a week in Argentina, we travel over the mountains to Chile, a spectacular, unforgettable tour by bus. The entire wine tour is spectacular too. The wines we taste, the passionate wine people we meet, the landscape, the lunches that are often gastronomic outdoor barbecues with delicious empanadas and the famous meat. We will experience Mendoza with its high-altitude vineyards, Chile’s Pacific coast with its cool climate, Colchagua in the interior with its famous carmenère and cabernet sauvignon, Buenos Aires with its tango show. Valparaíso with its street art. Today, the wine producers in both Chile and Argentina are very ambitious. The wine industry is in constant motion and various research projects are underway to understand the terroir better. The wines are now world-class, intensely interesting, very exciting. And the variety of wines from these two countries today is enormous. We enjoy magnificent scenery, and now and then we relax with a pisco sourby the pool.
Come on this exciting wine tour to Argentina and Chile with Britt and Per of BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
- Chile-Argentina, 12-25 January 2026
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(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
More inspiration: You can get an even better feeling for what you will experience on this tour if you visit the latest tour’s own Facebook group. Lots of pictures and videos from the tour (join the group and you’ll get an update when we post new contents): The wine tour to Chile and Argentina 2023.
Old vines, quality wines, delicious food and gin and tonic on the stoep | wine tour South Africa
We just came back from South Africa. A country where almost every vineyard location makes you exclaim, “so beautiful!” So constantly jaw-dropping that you get chafing on your chest… Maybe South Africa is the most beautiful wine country in the world. But South Africa is not just beautiful. The wines are fantastic, and right now, the producers are happy with a very successful 2025 vintage. What struck us on our tour this year was in particular the quality of the white wines. The white South African wines are fantastic. Once South Africa’s most planted grape, but often looked-down on, Semillon has had a fabulous renaissance. Chenin blanc, another classic in the country, has never been as good as it is now. Very old vineyards from both these grapes are now well taken care of. The gastronomy in the country has reached new heights. And there are wines that go with most things, not least the local, spicy Cape Malay cuisine. We start our tour with a few days in Cape Town and then continue to Walker Bay on the south coast and Franschhoek, Swartland, Tulbagh and Stellenbosch—relatively short distances but still very different places. Sitting with a gin and tonic on the stoep (veranda) of the Royal Hotel in Riebeek Kasteel in Swartland is very different from sitting in a fashionable café in Franschhoek. You want to do both.
Come on this fabulous wine tour to South Africa with Britt and Per of BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
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(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
More inspiration: You can get an even better feeling for what you will experience on this tour if you visit the latest tour’s own Facebook group. Lots of pictures and videos from the tour (join the group and you’ll get an update when we post new contents): The wine tour to South Africa 2024.
Great experiences far away – wine tour to New Zealand
New Zealand is as far away as you can get, for most people. Just the journey there is an adventure. We sometimes call this tour a road trip. We think the best way to see as much of the country as possible is to take our comfortable bus from Auckland, the country’s largest city, to Queenstown in Central Otago on the South Island. We pass several famous wine regions on the way, including the capital Wellington, geysers, and other geothermal wonders, as well as the country’s highest mountain, Mount Cook, which is part of the Southern Alps. We visit around 18 wineries, small and large, famous and not so well-known. Sauvignon blanc and pinot noir are the main grape varieties in the country, but there will be many other things on the program, especially when we are on the warmer North Island. We will learn more about Maori culture during one evening, including their dances and the well-known Haka (made famous by The All Blacks, New Zealand’s rugby team). We will eat delicious seafood and the local salmon. And of course, lamb too, there are plenty of them.
Come on this stunning wine tour to New Zealand with Britt and Per of BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
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(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
More inspiration: You can get an even better feeling for what you will experience on this tour if you visit the latest tour’s own Facebook group. Lots of pictures and videos from the tour (join the group and you’ll get an update when we post new contents): The wine tour to New Zealand 2024.
Champagne, diversity and awareness | wine tour
To give you a complete picture of the Champagne region, we visit both large champagne houses and small, independent growers. We taste both pinot meunier, blanc de blanc, blanc de noir, zéro dosage (the driest version of champagne) and more. And, perhaps most importantly of all, we give you the background on why different production methods, different grapes, different ageing times, etc. are chosen. We also talk about sustainability, something that is close to the hearts of many producers here. We discuss what can be done to adapt to a changing climate and weather patterns. Will the acidity – so important for champagne – decrease if it gets warmer? How can they reduce spraying? We gain insight into how people think today in Champagne and how they strive to preserve the unique champagne character. A deep dive into champagne!
Come on this luxurious wine tour to Champagne with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
- This tour is currently available as a bespoke tour for small groups.
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
Tuscany, gentle hills with beautiful vineyards and olive trees | wine tour
Vineyards are part of the Tuscan landscape. Grapevines thrive on the hills where the soil is poor but the sun exposure is excellent. The landscape is quite mountainous in places. The vines are grown between 200 and 600 meters above sea level. How the wine tastes depends on many factors: the grapes, the altitude, the soil and not least the philosophy of the wine producer. There are great variations in Tuscany and the producers like to emphasise these differences that the various districts within Tuscany have. Everyone is proud of their special part of Tuscany. Chianti conquered the world in the 70s with its straw-covered bottle. At that time it was known as an easy-drinking and unpretentious wine. Today we get Chianti in all versions, from top quality prestige wine to uncomplicated fruity lunch wines. The occasion will decide. We will of course visit both Chianti and Chianti Classico (two different geographical areas) and also Montalcino a little further south, known for its fantastic Brunello di Montalcino. Discover the enchanting Tuscany with us; not only the wines but also the landscape, the people and the gastronomy.
Come on this wonderful wine tour to Tuscany with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
- This tour is currently available as a bespoke tour for small groups.
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
Piedmont, the land of truffles and fog; and Barolo, Barbaresco | wine tour
It is a beautiful landscape that meets us in Piedmont. The region certainly merits its name, “at the foot of the mountain”; the Alps tower at the horizon. The signature grape Nebbiolo also has good reason for its name; it is often foggy (nebbia) in the mornings in the hills. The Alps to the north are not far away. Around us lie medieval villages such as Barolo, La Morra, Serralunga, Gavi with their impressive defensive castles, often real fortresses. The autumn landscape is magnificent. Nebbiolo and the other grapes often grow on slopes, sometimes really steep. We taste our way through many fantastic wines, Barolo, Barbaresco and other nebbiolos, as well as slightly lesser-known but equally outstanding wines with arneis, barbera, dolcetto, etc. We enjoy the local cuisine. We visit the truffle market in Alba with its overwhelming scent experience (can you over-dose in truffles?) and we eat a delicious closing lunch with the famous white truffle.
Come and discover all the good things that Piedmont has to offer on this wonderful wine tour with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
- This tour is currently available as a bespoke tour for small groups.
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
Douro Valley: The unique landscape that cannot be described but must be seen | wine tour
The Douro Valley impresses like few other wine regions. There is probably no other wine region that has so many steep slopes in such a large area. The Douro Valley must be seen with your own eyes. No pictures can really do it justice. When it comes to the Douro Valley, the word unique can be used without hesitation. On these difficult-to-work slopes, port wine has been made for many centuries. The “regular” (not fortified) red and white wines, called simply “Douro wines”, have not been known for as long. This combination of Douro wines and port wines makes this tour particularly interesting. We taste all types of wines. The red and also the white Douro wines (non-fortified wines) are fantastic. For many, port wines are an exciting (re-)discovery. You don’t always realise that port wine comes in so many different types and, for instance, what the differences are between an old tawny and a vintage. Completely new dimensions open up. We stay two nights in Porto, an exciting city to explore. On the other side of the river lies Vila Nova de Gaia and this is where the big port wine houses age their wines. We stay two nights at the luxurious Vintage House in the valley, close to the vineyards.
Come and discover the spectacular landscapes and wines of the Douro on this wine tour with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
- This tour is currently available as a bespoke tour for small groups.
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
