Wine Tours

Wine Tours to European wine regions

BKWine has organised over 100 wine tours throughout France and across Europe. Travelling in wine country is the best and most enjoyable way of learning about wine, how it is made, how to taste it and how to appreciate it. Meeting the producers is a captivating experience that can be anything from an insight into a small family enterprise with a passionate wine maker talking about his wines to an impressive visit to an industrial installation with the latest technical equipment and marketing resources. We always travel in small groups, typically 12-18 people, to guarantee a personal experience, translating from French (or Italian, or German...) as needed.

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Wine Tours, Autumn 2009

In Bordeaux you find world famous châteaux and world famous wines but also a lot of new exciting initiatives (less famous but maybe more important for the future of Bordeaux!) and young enthusiastic wine makers. On this trip we will visit both some big, famous Grand Cru Classé-châteaux and smaller ones that are less known, but very quality conscious. More info on this wine tour to Bordeaux.

If you want to go later in the autumn, here's the trip for you. For a wine lover a trip to Bordeaux is a must! Here you find world famous châteaux and world famous wines but also a lot of new exciting initiatives (less famous but maybe more important for the future of Bordeaux!) and young enthusiastic wine makers. More info soon! More info on this wine tour to Bordeaux

During 2008 we organised some 30 tours. We do tours in English, but also in Swedish and in Finnish (and we can also do it in Spanish, German or Norwegian).

In recent years we have had tours to a wide range of wine regions. To give you some examples, and starting from the west: Alentejo in Portugal; the Douro valley in Portugal; Catalonia with Penedes and Priorato (Priorat) in Spain; in France we did Bordeaux, Loire, the Languedoc, the Sud-Ouest, Champagne, Chablis, Burgundy, the Rhone Valley, Alsace, and Provence; Tuscany and Veneto in Italy; and Wachau and Rust in Austria.

If you want to go there we can organise it!

Wine Tours in Finnish.                             Wine Tours in Swedish.

Important and Useful Information

Who is Britt Karlsson and BKWine?

Britt is of Swedish origin and based in Paris. She has worked in the wine world for 15 years specialising in wine education, wine journalism and wine tourism. Over this period she has organised hundreds of wine tours. She has an extensive network of contacts in the wine regions and an excellent knowledge of recent developments. She visits some 200 wineries every year and is frequently called on to participate as a wine judge in international wine competitions.

This unique experience and expertise is your guarantee that a wine tour with BKWine will be an exceptional experience.

Booking Terms and Conditions

Here are our Ts & Cs, including things like booking terms, payment terms, cancellation, insurance, travel guarantee deposit and more: Booking Terms.

Travel Guarantee Deposit and Consumer Protection

BKWine is a Swedish registered travel organiser. BKWine has a bonded travel guarantee deposit so that you can feel safe booking with us. We comply fully with European and Swedish travel guarantee regulations. British travellers may be familiar with the ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) protection scheme which is a similar model. BKWine follows the code of conduct and financial safeguards defined by the Swedish Consumer Agency and The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency ("Kammarkollegiet", with a history dating back to 1539). Read more about this in our Booking Terms and Conditions.

Our Tour Guides

Many of our tours are led by Britt herself, with fifteen years experience of wine travel, wine tasting and wine writing, and living in France since 1990. Some tours are led by our highly skilled collaborators who are equally experienced in both wine and the language and culture of the places we visit.

More inspiration

Visit our photo galleries to see the beauty of the wine country. Watch interviews with wine makers and virtual visits to vineyards on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/bkwine.

Keep up to date with our program

If you want to be informed of our upcoming trips and of future programmes you should subscribe to our newsletter, the BKWine Brief. As an added bonus you'll get travel and restaurant tips as well as news from the world of wine. More info: BKWine Brief

About the wine estates we visit

We want you to experience the best and the most interesting estates. Therefore, we put a lot of effort into finding really good producers to visit. Contrary to what one might think, the most exciting wine producers are not always the "famous names", the Grand Crus or the most prestigious "houses". Often the passionately engaging visits happen when you meet the winemaker or the owner himself (or quite often herself) and his family.

Frequently, detailed discussions get underway where a true understanding of how things really “work” develops, we may even stay and have lunch at the winery (unlike in the US many of these do not have purpose-built restaurants). This is also why our trips do not have large numbers of visits on the programme. Even so, we regularly run short of time due to conversations lasting a lot longer than intended and where more and more wines are brought out to taste, somehow time flies.

Our trips are usually a mixture of small family producers and larger, well known wine estates - carefully selected to give you the unique wine experience.

What will you remember the most: the charming winery staff guide with perfect English, or the passionate winemaker who won't let you go until you've tasted yet another of his wines?

Custom designed tours

We also create wine tours specifically to your requirements, perhaps for you and a group of your friends, colleagues, business associates or customers... The tours can be focused on wine only or can be combined with other things such as golf, cultural visits, three-star restaurants, gastronomic visits (cheese making, foie gras producers, oyster farms, sausage and ham production) for example.

We work with "amateur" wine lovers and with professionals - wine importers, sommeliers, restaurateurs, wine journalists... We can do all levels: "just for fun and pleasure" to highly specialised and advanced educational tours.

Contact BKWine for more info.

Call me on Skype (for free) - click on "Call me!" or skype "bkwine" (What's this?). Or call on a regular phone my Paris number 0033 6 80 45 35 70.

Some more examples of wine tours

A selection of some previous tours:

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