by winepleasures | Mar 23, 2011 | Wine Tours
A wine tourist’s insight into the world of Cava and how it is produced. I am an Australian and while I enjoy a wine, I had not heard about Cava until I was standing in a pub in London, celebrating the end of the working week. The women I was with were starting their...
by winepleasures | Mar 18, 2011 | Wine Tours, Wine Workshops
The 2011 Wine Pleasures Reverse Trade Mission to Spain for wine importers was hosted in the seaside town of Calafell south of Barcelona. Salvador Valles owns and manages the lovely Hotel Antiga on the main square just below the medieval castle and next door to the...
by winepleasures | Sep 17, 2010 | Wine Conference, Wine Tours
Thea Dwelle, the well regarded wine and travel writer of Luciouslushes.com, has a keen interest in the relationship between social media and wine. She describes her work as an effort of love, with her goal being the free exchange of wine information. As part of this...
by winepleasures | Sep 1, 2010 | Wine Tours
Familiarization Trips (Fam Trips, for short) for Tour Operators and Travel Agents are common practice for the travel industry. For the tourism provider it is probably by far the most cost-effective marketing tool they can invest in to gain greater market share and...
by winepleasures | Aug 29, 2010 | Wine Tours, Wine Conference
For those of you who remember and are fans of the 70s rock group Led Zeppelin are sure to remember one of their most loved songs: Stairway to Heaven”? Well did you know that the Stairway to Heaven actually exists? It’s is to be found n the heart of...