We have just made official the wine tour program for the coming autumn. Take a look at the info below in the Brief.
We will also soon be publishing the dates for our two upcoming long distance tours, Chile and Argentina, and South Africa. They will take place in early 2016. Watch this space.
In 2014 we organised in total around 30 wine tours, ”open” tours on our published program as well as custom designed tours for private groups. A big thank you to all travellers who came with us to explore the world’s wine regions. We except to do around the same number of tours in 2015.
Concours de Grenache, Carignan Renaissance, Carmenère National Day … Soon, every grape will have its own day or its own association, its own wine competition. And apparently, these gimmicks (or whatever you want to call them) pay off.
Through The International Grenache Competition, held this year for the third time in Perpignan, the region of Roussillon has certainly received a lot of (well deserved) attention abroad.
For Carignan, it is quite true that the grape is having a renaissance. Now it is not used for simple table wines anymore. At least not only. Skilled Languedoc-producers know how to treat it and they show us what the grape is capable of.
If organic producers in particular are fond of carignan, I don’t know. But during organic wine fair Millésime Bio this week we tasted some really good carignan wines. Read more about Millesime Bio in the Brief.
But overall I think it is positive with these “grape gimmicks”. Perhaps it can contribute to that wine lovers across the world discover new ones. And contribute to that wine lovers pay less attention to rankings and points when choosing wines…
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Britt & Per
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