Visiting a vineyard is interesting

Visiting a wine maker is not only to really discover how wine is designed from its conception, but it’s also a great learning experience and meeting point.

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In fact there are many similarities in the language we use for child-rearing and wine. We speak of ‘raising’ a wine, of its ‘maturity’, of its ‘ageing’. And as children resemble their parents so one can learn a lot about a wine from meeting its maker, or ‘parent’. Each wine has its own distinctive ‘character’, traits given to it by its creator. What’s also surprising is that you can often find exactly the same traits in the proprietor of a vineyard as in his wines! Indeed, behind a so-called ‘feminine’ wine there often hides a female proprietor. Behind a ‘warm-blooded’ wine you might expect to find an exceptionally passionate vineyard owner.

There are many examples, so much so that you can almost begin to guess what kind of person you will be meeting once you have drunk a ‘vin-proprietaire’. Don’t wait any longer to start these fascinating encounters, meet the proprietors and you will begin to recognise and appreciate their offspring. And we’re sure that, just as you like your friends’ children best, so you’ll feel a special tenderness towards the wines of the makers you like best. At Wine Tour Booking (www.winetourbooking.com) we firmly believe in getting to know the men and women behind the wines. We take advantage of our blogs to give as much information as we can about them – to arouse your curiosity and make you long to meet them. To be continued….