In my last post I challenged readers to send me one hundred words of your thoughts on wine tourism, with the lure of a prize of a subscription to Jancis Robinson’s Purple Pages. I received six excellent entries, and invited freelance drinks journalist Susanna Forbes and wine educator Brett Jones to help me find a… View more
Does wine tourism exist? Does a wine tourist exist? Certainly the French think that it is sufficiently important to have its own word, oenotourisme, but talking with some people in both the wine trade and the travel trade, particularly in Europe, one wonders about its importance. To take just one example, at the huge World… View more
Writing this from California where Brett and I are spending a couple of weeks spreading the word about Wine Travel Guides and learning how American wine lovers tick. Yesterday (Sunday afternoon) we decided to cruise the Russian River Valley incognito, pretending we were pure wine tourists. Used brochures and the Lonely Planet Guide as our… View more
