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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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Japan wine – a trip through Nagano
Yoko Obara highlights what’s p ossibly the most exciting wine region in Japan today. An ever-growing range of wineries here are building on a history that reaches back to the...
Guest contributor
Wednesday 3 December 2025
• 6 min read
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In The Malmö Olympics, I explained why I recently found myself flying to Copenhagen and visiting Malmö in Sweden, where...
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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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In time, we hope, for those planning a trip to London over the forthcoming holidays, here is a guide to...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
For further suggestions from our Purple...
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On Saturday I wrote in Getting to grips with Puglia about the Radici del Sud wine competition that was held...
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We decided to take our training for our last meal at El Bulli very seriously indeed. Well, at least by...
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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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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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Pinot Noir New Zealand 2010 has already begun today in Wellington and continues for the rest of the week. The...
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If ever you find yourself with a little time to spare in Zurich airport, you might take the short stroll...
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At the end of last week I found myself in Bordeaux as a tourist, for practically the first time in...
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Personal recommendations are invaluable when it comes to places to stay, eat or buy wine – as is clear from...
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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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I'm pretty inured to the charms of wine books, being lucky enough to be bombarded with them each autumn. But...
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On behalf of my adventurous older daughter, who had heard good things about the beaches there, I asked Miles Mossop...
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