New Wine Travel Guides to Rioja and Tuscany
Wine Travel Guides just has launched two comprehensive on-line travel guides to the major wine regions of Tuscany, Italy and a further two guides to the Rioja wine region in Spain. These are the first guides the website has published to wine regions outside of France, and brings the total number of guides available to fifty.
The guides are written by experienced local specialists who live in the regions and can offer travellers up-to-date information. They include independent recommendations for wine producers to visit, places to stay, eat and shop, as well as an inside guide to local attractions, food specialities and, of course, the wines.
Rioja wines have long been enjoyed internationally and recently the region has dramatically increased its wine tourism offering. Architecturally splendid new wineries have been built, along with new hotels, restaurants and museums - the proximity to Bilbao with its famous Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum has had a direct influence.
On the other hand, Tuscany has long been known as a tourist destination, with wine considered part of the enjoyment of this beautiful region. Wine tourism has been given a boost with the increase in high quality accommodation and restaurants offered by wine producers as part of the general development of agritourism throughout Italy.”
The Wine Travel Guides website was launched in 2007 as a purely on-line venture offering wine lovers comprehensive information to plan a private wine tour. There are now 50 guides available on the website to download, print or view on-line through an annual subscription. Interactive mapping is available and all guides are regularly updated.
Highlights from an original post on Spittoon.
