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 2008

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!

Douro is one of the world’s most famous wine rivers. Here, in this dramatically beautiful landscape in northern Portugal, grapes are grown on steep, terraced slopes. The climate is dry and hot and the grapes are picked perfectly ripe. These grapes are made into port wine and increasingly into a full bodied, tasty red table wine. More info!

Champagne... Luxury, celebration and of course excellent wines. But champagne is not just wines. There is also an outstanding gastronomy that we will pay special attention to on this trip. We will visit some world famous champagne houses and some small high-quality family producers. And we will enjoy the Champenoise gastronomy at our dinners (in a one-star restaurant!) and at the lunches, some of which will be with, and as guests of, champagne producers. Is drinking champagne all through a meal a good idea? Decide for yourself! More info!

Wine Tours, Spring 2009

Here are the dates for the spring tours 2009. We will soon publish the detailed program. Please come back.

During 2007 we organised some 25 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 2007 we had tours to a wide range of wine regions. To give you some examples, and starting from the west: Alentejo in Portugal; Catalonia with Priorato (Priorat) in Spain; in France we did Bordeaux, Loire, the Languedoc, Champagne, Chablis, Burgundy, the Rhone Valley, and Provence; Tuscany in Italy; and Wachau and Rust in Austria. In 2008 we will add the Douro valley in Portugal; Veneto in Italy; Mosel, Rheingau and Pfalz (Palatinate) in Germany; and the French Sud-Ouest (South West) with Madiran and Bergerac, and Alsace.

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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