Category: Wine Regions

My #EWBC introduction to Franciacorta

Last week I attended my second #EWBC (European Wine Bloggers Conference). This year the conference really went global with 35 nations being represented amongst the 216 participants. Our hosts were the consortium of Franciacorta and the venue was the beautiful Santa Guilia chapel in Brescia, Italy. I was really excited to go to Brescia and
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Terroir

The notion of Terroir has been on my mind a lot these last few days – partly because I have been studying for the Wine Location Specialist Certificate Program from the Center of Wine Origins and partly because the first #Terroircamp was on this weekend at Toulouse.. Terroir in my opinion, encompasses the uniqueness of
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Paso Robles Wine Country and Rhone varieties

Next destination on my wonderful wine trip through California was Paso Robles. I was really excited to visit Paso as a lot of my Californian and International wine friends had been raving about the place. As soon as I drove through the rolling country side I totally understood what they meant. Paso Robles is located
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Californian wine trip part 2: Los Olivos, Solvang and St Barbara wine country

After a few days soaking up the sun in SoCal I headed up to the Santa Barbara region to catch up with my friends Sam and Cath from 1000 corks – an excellent US wine search engine BTW – and together we headed up to Los Olivos. You can read Sam’s recount of our day
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WeinViertel Visit

On Sunday 24th of October I took the post #EWBC trip to Weinviertel, Austria. The Weinviertel is Austria’s largest wine producing area and it’s main grape variety is Grüner Veltliner. Our first stop was the beautiful windmill just outside the town of Retz, where we had a short overview on the Weinviertel DAC system and
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