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Forget preconceived ideas, wine from Romania is really very good. Most people have heard of Count Dracula, the terrifying fictional vampire created by Bram Stoker and based on Vlad the Impaler. Romanian wine marketers have taken advantage of our fascination with the character and Dracula´s image finds itself on many -
Winery round the corner from Machu Picchu Well not quite, but close! The high-altitude Apu Winery in Curahuasi, Peru is nestled among mountains that the Inca considered to be Gods (a.k.a. Apu), and their wine is named after these deities. Fernando (Peru) and Meg (USA) have embarked on an ambitious -
Russian Winery Experience you won’t forget. After our visit to Sauk Dere winery I was asked to write an email to the owners with my impressions of the experience and state why they SHOULD NOT invest much money in the place – how often does that happen? Wine enthusiasts and -
Birthplace of Wine and Traditional Qvevri Georgia is returning to the traditional production of Qvevri wine, making this ancient wine-making country very different from the norm. With over 8000 years of trial and error, and all the modern methods now available, many wineries are still staying true to their ancient -
This was our first visit and we didn’t really know what to expect from Turkey and we certainly knew nothing about Turkish wine. I knew that Eastern Turkey (along with Georgia and Armenia) gave birth to wine around 8000 years ago and that Istanbul was a spectacular, historic city, but
