Old World wine regions are focus of upcoming fall tours
- Courtesy BKWine Photography
With so much attention paid nowadays to the New World wine regions of California, Oregon, British Columbia and the Southern Hemisphere, it’s easy to forget Old World wines — the European regions where viticulture and wine-making as we know it were developed and refined. BKWine Tours, a specialized tour operator run by Swedes and based near Paris, focuses on what can be called Old World wine regions. This fall, they have scheduled short, intensive trips of just four nights and three very full days to two classic French wine travel destinations, Bordeaux and Burgundy.
The Bordeaux tour (October 5-9) takes wine travelers to some of the prestigious chateaux in the world’s most famous wine region. It also takes the wine lover behind the scenes of what they call “the real Bordeaux,” where both the ultra-luxury chateaux and the family owned estates have a place. Part of the focus is on young winemakers who are breathing new energy into this classic region. Each winery visit includes private wine tastings and gastronomic meals served at the chateaux, accompanied by the properties’ own wines.
The Burgundy tour (October 19-23) visits a selection of the top producers in the region, both the big merchants with well-known brands of blended wines and the small, often-family owned wineries that produce on small-production vineyard- and terroir-specific wines. This tour is dedicated to the individual growers and includes extensive tastings of most of the famous appellations in Burgundy, including several Grand Cru wines, the most exclusive of Burgundies. It also includes three gourmet lunches, some as invited guests to the homes of wine producers.
BKWine was founded by Britt and Per Karlsson, well-known wine journalists (she the writer, he the photographer) whose book, The Creation of a Wine, was named the World’s Best Wine Book for Professionals in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011. Per Karlsson is leading both of these small-group tours — that is, for a maximum of eight people. I think I’m writing a post about them because I wish something on this order were within my budget. The Bordeaux tour is from €1190 per person and the Burgundy tour is from €1075.
BKWine AB, 51 rue du Chevalier de la Barre, F-92130 Issy les Moulineaux, France. The phone number is +33 – 6 80 45 35 70 and Skype to bkwine.
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