We think most people will agree that wine regions offer up among the best views available anywhere in the world. While that claim isn’t very controversial, distilling those regions down to what we consider to be the 10 best, likely will be. Let us start by saying that we wanted to ensure our recommendations were based on personal experience to be as authentic as possible. We recognize that despite our varied travels, there are still many we have yet to visit so this list will remain a work in progress. Case in point, we have AdVINEtures lined up this year that include 3 regions we’ll be visiting for the first time: Fruili Venezia Giulia (Italy), Istria (Croatia), and Chablis (France). Click here for our latest Daily Hive article with our picks for the top 10 most beautiful wine regions to visit worldwide.
This month the #WorldWineTravel group is discussing South Australian Reds. During an AdVINEture to Adelaide in 2019, we tasted several wines and a particular blend stood out for us: Cabernet-Shiraz.
Shiraz is Australia’s most planted viniferous grape variety and if popularity or reputation has anything to do with quality, it is also Australia’s best. But is that general truism really as accurate as many would think? Time perhaps to have a look at Cabernet-Shiraz, the blend that by certain rights might be more deserving of the Greatest Australian Red Wine title.
For the past 2 years, Zencore, the company known for its innovative small kitchen appliances, has been developing an Electric Wine Decanter. Yes, you heard that right ‘Electric’. And yes, it’s the first time we’d seen anything like it. The idea behind its unique design is to allow you to decant your wine quickly and elegantly. We took their D119 premium version for a spin and here’s our full review:
*The Zencore Electric Decanter was received as a media sample. We received no compensation for our review and all opinions are our own.*
A recent trip that AdVINEtures took with Iberian Wine Tours through the wine regions of Portugal taught us that this is an important region for wine-lovers to know more about. The region offers a great diversity of wine styles, from white to red, still to sparkling, table to dessert, and all at very fair prices. It is also a stunningly beautiful region of steep valleys covered in terraced vineyards that fall down to shimmering blue rivers.
The word ‘pioneer’ gets bandied about a lot, but it truly takes vision to open the first commercial winery nowadays in a region with barely any viticultural history. It certainly wasn’t the first place Rolf de Bruin and his wife Heleen Pannekoek had considered for a winery when they emigrated from Holland, but heading into their 11th harvest, they’re already making their mark on BC’s rapidly developing wine scene at Fort Berens.
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