Category Archives: Wine Travel

Wines of the Loire Valley by Beverley Blanning MW (Book Review)

Posted on 26/06/2025 by dccrossley

As someone who has been a bit of a wine obsessive for a number of decades, I find that things, in this case a more than average interest in any particular wine region, come around in cycles. The world of … Continue reading →

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Bordeaux by Georgie Hindle – The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide (Book Review)

Posted on 16/05/2025 by dccrossley

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Fintan Kerr’s Rioja Guide in the Academie du Vin Library’s The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide series (see review, 31 March 2025), I wanted to explore these handy little guides further. Although four further titles are … Continue reading →

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Rioja by Fintan Kerr – The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide (Book Review)

Posted on 31/03/2025 by dccrossley

Wine books can be pretty expensive these days, at least the serious wine books you and I read. It’s not always the case. Jamie Goode has found a way to make some of his books affordable, but those published by … Continue reading →

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Manang Valley Boutique Winery – Apple Wine in the Shadow of the Annapurnas

Posted on 04/12/2024 by dccrossley

Whenever I visit Nepal, my recent trip being my eighth time there, I usually have some kind of drink-related story to tell, although it’s not always about wine. One of the most enduringly popular articles on my site is about … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Wine Regions in Tourist Mode (Part 2)

Posted on 09/10/2024 by dccrossley

In the first part of this article, I introduced six of my favourite wine regions with my tourist hat on. Six wine regions I love to visit for reasons other than, or perhaps rather in addition to, the wine. Those … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Wine Regions in Tourist Mode (Part 1)

Posted on 03/10/2024 by dccrossley

As summer fades fast into Autumn, and perhaps for those of us not harvesting grapes, the memory of some 2024 vineyard trips along with it, you might, like me, be turning your attention to next year. Even with one big … Continue reading →

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Jura Wine Ten Years On by Wink Lorch (Book Review)

Posted on 28/08/2024 by dccrossley

I’m sure I’m not alone in having a “wine library”, in my case five shelves of about a metre in length, perhaps too many books on wine you may think, but whenever I get rid of some there’s usually something … Continue reading →

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Czech Wines – Another Unashamed Plug

Posted on 26/10/2023 by dccrossley

If you ask any deeply interested wine lover where is hot right now you may get a variety of answers, but I would argue that the place with the buzz is Czechia (or the Czech Republic if you prefer). It … Continue reading →

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Recent Wines – Australia, April and May 2023 #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 29/05/2023 by dccrossley

We drank some interesting wines during our three-and-a-half weeks in Australia. I set out to try to drink wines from producers I didn’t know. In the end, that only applies to half the wines here, though only in one case … Continue reading →

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The World of Natural Wine by Aaron Ayscough (Book Review)

Posted on 17/11/2022 by dccrossley

Occasionally a wine book can be eagerly-awaited for quite some time, and The World of Natural Wine by Aaron Ayscough is one of them. Aaron has been on my radar for many years, via his blog “Not Drinking Poison” (originally … Continue reading →

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