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Italian Wine Grape Varieties

January 24, 2012 – 7:54 am

We begin our journey to Italy today and land in the Eternal City tomorrow. In our case, all roads do lead to Rome. Our agenda includes the Wine Pleasures FAM trip for bloggers and media. We will explore wineries in Umbria and Campania. The itinerary also includes the International Wine Tourism Conference. I am presenting […]

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On the Road with Tom Plant

January 17, 2012 – 6:58 am

We are looking forward to meeting people and renewing previous acquaintances at the Wine Pleasures FAM trip for bloggers and media taking place later this month in Italy. We first met Tom Plant at a winery media event in Temecula, California. Tom was also present at another media event at another Temecula winery as well […]

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Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo Present at the IWINETC

January 10, 2012 – 7:56 am

Over the next few weeks we’ll write about some of the people we know attending and presenting at the International Wine Tourism Conference, IWINETC later this month. Our first visit to Texas wineries was in April of 2009. On our first day we met Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo at their Messina Hof winery. Their winery, […]

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What Are the Best Wine Travel Destinations for 2012?

January 4, 2012 – 4:58 pm

Wine Enthusiast Magazine listed the Ten Best Wine Travel Destinations for 2012 in a series of articles published last month on their website. I found eight of the ten. The big one for me was Virginia. It’s the only region on the list that Kathy and I have visited, although we visit Virginia wineries and […]

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Newest Member of the Family of WineTrailTraveler Websites

January 4, 2012 – 7:42 am

Wine is a topic that isn’t thought of in a vacuum. When discussing wine, one often ventures into a discussion of food. It made sense that as we journeyed into the world of wine, food accompanied our travels. After five years of visiting and writing about 750 wineries, WineTrailTraveler introduces a companion website about food: […]

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FAM Trips

January 3, 2012 – 9:01 am

FAM is short for familiarization. A FAM trip is designed by a sponsor to provide experiences for the participants. If the participants are bloggers and media, they will write or broadcast about these experiences. Since 2008 we have attended both group and individual FAM trips designed for bloggers and media. It is interesting to note […]

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WineTrailTraveler’s Busy January

January 1, 2012 – 8:52 am

Many Januarys are depressing for a lot of people. Wine Trail Traveler owners, Terry and Kathy Sullivan won’t find time for depression to settle in this year. They are rolling out a new companion website the first week of January and then participating in a blogger/media FAM trip to Italy that includes presenting at the […]

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Gnarly Head 2010 Old Vine Zin

December 31, 2011 – 8:36 am

I opened a bottle of Gnarly Head 2010 Old Vine Zin last night to pair with pasta and a red sauce. My first reaction was that it was not a Sonoma County Old Vine Zin nor a Temecula Zin. In fact, the wine tasted very similar to a Petite Sirah that I made with juice […]

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Hey IWINETC, How about Virginia?

December 18, 2011 – 9:58 am

I just looked at a list of of international tour operators and travel agents that will attend the International Wine Tourism Conference in January 2012 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. I noticed a couple of the participants are from Virginia. Although I reside in neighboring Maryland, Virginia would make a wonderful host for a future International […]

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November Vineyards Color Spectacular

November 19, 2011 – 10:06 am

We have been enjoying the autumn show of vineyard colors for some time now. Last week in the Lake Erie North Shore wine region of Ontario, the last colors of vineyards were beginning to fade. This week in Sonoma and Napa counties in California, the vineyards are putting on their show. Although we spotted a […]

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