The Tokaj Trail – From Budapest to Eger and Tokaj
The wines of the Tokaj region vie with some of the greatest names in history for the title of most admired wines in the world . Both in price and…
Category: 1001 Wine Routes
There are literally thousands of wine routes in the world. From the very well trodden, to the rustic and little known. From the places where wine prices are high to the places where you find wine bliss at a fair price. The mission of The Wine Beat is to combine discovery of the great wines of the world with exploration of where the wines come from. What place, what village, what hillside, what winemaker and what grape. Every wine route promises a beautiful journey – and, in the best cases, off the beaten path.
Bucharest And The Dealu Mare Wine Route
Romania’s wine history is very deep and rich and yet its wine culture is tantalizingly undiscovered. Winemaking here has been going on for 4,000 years without interruption. Conquering armies have…
Burgenland – Austria’s Red Wine Contender
If Austria’s international reputation for white wines has beefed up recently (led by Riesling and Grüner Veltliner), the red part of the Austrian wine equation is doing its best to…
Primorska – Slovenia’s Wine Heaven
How many places does a Wes Anderson movie meet a James Bond location meet a Conde Naste travelogue? And in how many of those places do you also have the…
Bierzo – Wine Secrets On The Camino De Santiago
The wine world is full of secrets. Some are well-kept, some less so. Among the world’s myriad wine regions there are many, many fascinating secrets. And likewise among the world’s…
Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast Wineries – Split, Hvar and Beyond
When the makers of the film Mama Mia decided to use Hvar on the Croatian Adriatic coast as the location for Mama Mia 2 instead of the island of Skopelos…
Sussex Sparkling Wine Country.
Sussex embodies the beauty of England in just about every way. It is a region of forests, quaint villages, rolling hills, pretty houses, imposing country estates, beaches, ancient historical sights…
Wines of Chinon, Loire, France
The Enduring Rebellious Rabelais – Chinon’s Famous Son.
You can’t go anywhere in Chinon without seeing that rascal, Rabelais. François Rabelais is one of France’s greatest authors and he often…
Lisboa Wine Region, Portugal
Lisbon’s Alfama district is its historic beating heart, a cobbled, lovely maze that slopes up the hill to the Se Cathedral and Lisbon’s central castle, the Castelo de Sao Jorge…
Kakheti Wine Region, Georgia
Tbilisi’s old town is the best place to start your Georgian wine journey and immerse in the culture. A couple of days here and then its off to Kakheti for…