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The best way to learn about wine is to visit the place where it's made – to meet the people, see the landscape, feel the air, enjoy the cuisine. Here are some stories that will help you plan your next trip. See also our Travel forum, where our exceptionally well-informed members and staff trade tips and recommendations on visiting wine regions around the world.

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Travel tips Walking Germany's Mosel

To understand Mosel Riesling, stop reading about it – walk it. Above, the River Mosel and the village of Treis-Karden from a picnic bench with a view. Grey, skeletal branches...

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Travel tips Yesterday we published Wink Lorch's account of the Marquis d'Angerville's foray into the Jura. Last Thursday night on her way...
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Travel tips We heard it before we saw it, and our hearts jumped into our mouths. A jarring, horrorful, high-frequency clamour, piercing...
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Travel tips See our forthcoming collection of reviews of the Languedoc – France's best-value wine region. For those wishing to stay in...
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Travel tips In The Malmö Olympics, I explained why I recently found myself flying to Copenhagen and visiting Malmö in Sweden, where...
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Travel tips Purple Pager Wink Lorch of www.winetravelguides.com is right. The Jura is a delightfully bucolic region about which I will be...
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Travel tips In time, we hope, for those planning a trip to London over the forthcoming holidays, here is a guide to...
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Travel tips This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. For further suggestions from our Purple...
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Travel tips On Saturday I wrote in Getting to grips with Puglia about the Radici del Sud wine competition that was held...
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Travel tips We decided to take our training for our last meal at El Bulli very seriously indeed. Well, at least by...
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Travel tips There are times when a long flight is useful rather than a pain and our 14-hour Sri Lankan flight back...
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Travel tips There's a useful thread in the travel section of our Members' forum on places to eat and producers to visit...
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Travel tips Pinot Noir New Zealand 2010 has already begun today in Wellington and continues for the rest of the week. The...
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Travel tips If ever you find yourself with a little time to spare in Zurich airport, you might take the short stroll...
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Travel tips At the end of last week I found myself in Bordeaux as a tourist, for practically the first time in...
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Travel tips Personal recommendations are invaluable when it comes to places to stay, eat or buy wine – as is clear from...
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Travel tips Here's a film of one of the oddest places I have ever spent a night. I slept beautifully, by the...
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