I have done some earlier posts on the wine tasting trip my wife and I took in September. It was an 18 day wine tasting itinerary in northwestern Spain with 19 other people. It was organized by an importer of Spanish wines, Howard Freedman, who accompanied us on the trip. The picture below is the itinerary we had where we visited wineries that Howard represents and got VIP tours, tastings, and meals there. We visited eleven wineries and also ate at two Michelin 1 Star restaurants. Beth and I never learned so much about wines and wine making as we did on this trip. The blog summary of that trip is at https://billwinetravelfood.com/2022/10/10/two-week-spanish-wine-tasting-trip and there are also a handful of additional posts where I went into detail on some of the wineries, restaurants, hotels, and other sites that we visited.
Howard is doing this trip again in 2023, the twelfth time he has hosted this trip. If you are interested in Spanish wine, food, and culture, I highly recommend you consider this trip. You will learn far more than in any class about Spanish wines and have a lot more fun too. The web site for the 2023 trip is www.howardswinetour.com . We found several white wines in Spain that we really like: Albariño, Rueda, Godella, and Treixadura, and one new red wine grape Mencia that we really like. Visiting both La Rioja and Ribera del Duero for tastings let us understand why most of the critics say that the best Spanish red wines come from Ribera del Duero.
I am happy to answer any questions you put in the comments section about the trip we took. I have no financial incentive in recommending this trip. It is limited to 24 people at most, so I wanted to let people know about it and consider it since we enjoyed it so much. In the past it has sold out quickly. You are welcome to tell Howard that you heard about this trip in a post that I did.
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