28 Aug Grape Escapes: Four Intoxicating Wine Adventures
What’s the only thing better than embarking upon an amazing adventure? Embarking upon an amazing adventure with lots of great wine. That’s why this week we’re proud to feature four Adventure Collection journeys to some of the world’s most fabled wine producing regions…Salud!
Grapes in the Cape
Micato’s Travel + Leisure World’s Best Safari is a celebration of the company’s unprecedented nine-year reign atop the magazine’s list of the planet’s premiere tour operators and safari outfitters. It’s also a celebration of the best Africa has to offer; each accommodation along the route is a fellow T & L World’s Best list honoree. Fortunately for wine lovers, the itinerary includes a stay at the Delaire Graff Estate, nestled atop a mountain pass in South Africa’s famed Cape Winelands. Here, you’ll experience all the viticultural delights the Cape has to offer, against a backdrop of soaring, misty mountain peaks and quaint, centuries-old Cape Dutch villages.
Drinking it in Down Under
Off the Beaten Path’s Taste of Australia adventure isn’t all about wine. You’ll also experience Sydney’s cosmopolitan charms, search for whales in Royal National Park, and drink in the rugged beauty of the Blue Mountains; replete with aboriginal history, lush rainforests, deep gorges and shimmering waterfalls. By day five, you’ll be ready for a drink. Fortunately, that’s when you arrive in Hunter Valley, home to over 150 wineries and perhaps the country’s best known wine region. Here you’ll sip the valley’s iconic semillon, as well as its acclaimed shiraz and chardonnay, accompanied by local cheeses, chocolates and other delights.
Dionysian Paddling Odyssey
Want to wine taste off the beaten track? On Natural Habitat Adventures’ Paddling Portugal’s River of Wine trip, the track is Portugal’s Duoro River, which wends its way through one of Europe’s oldest, and most often overlooked, wine producing regions. By day you’ll drink in some of continent’s most stunning scenery from the deck of a kayak while experiencing the harvest first-hand, as ripe grapes are handpicked from centuries-old vineyards on the steep mountainsides. By night, you’ll sip the region’s famous port while enjoying old-world hospitality at luxurious manor houses and traditional farmsteads.
Through Prehistory to the Great Wine Estates
On Backroads’ Dordogne & Bordeaux Biking tour you’ll pedal through the heart of Europe’s most legendary wine country while exploring 14,000 years of fascinating human history – from Cro Magnon cave paintings at Rouffignac, to the Gallo-Roman ruins in Montcaret, to quaint medieval hamlets. Highlights include private wine tastings with local experts, sumptuous private garden feasts, and scenery that’s every bit as delectable as the libations on offer.
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