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The owner and winemaker at El Escorial is a very entertaining chap, and bursting with enthusiasm about his high altitude Port. His Chilean accent while speaking in his native Spanish is very pronounced and I will freely admit that I missed about 30% of what he said (luckily his subsequent -
What will our Wine Tours look like after lockdown? The tourism landscape has changed and it is true that we may have new considerations when we start traveling again. But saying that, it is hard to imagine any type of tour that carries less hygiene risk than private, post COVID -
Wine Day Trips from Santiago. You can imagine that a winery where four million bottles are produced with state of the art, multi-million dollar equipment stands in stark contrast to a place where 600 bottles are produced by one man in his front garden using plastic tanks. Which wine will -
Is Kosher Wine Different? We were ignorant of what it means to produce Kosher wine when we arrived at our first winery in Israel. After a number of visits, we now understand the basics, maybe? The obvious question for us, other than what producing Kosher wine involves, was whether the -
Smuggled wine and some terrible stuff! Our Ephesus lunch involved pouring some (good) wine from a local winery into an empty coca-cola bottle (not optimum I know!), packing a small picnic of local cheeses and bread and finding a secluded spot in the shade. The terrible wine had thankfully already
