If food and wine travel are among your interests, you're already one of us. Travel Belles generally prefer the good kind of wining and dining. And sometimes we drink beer and cocktails too.
Send a message with a Valentine’s Day wine chosen to perfectly suit the status of any romantic liaison (or lack thereof) Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is upon us. You may think it’s a Hallmark holiday and eschew the commercialism of it all, but if your spouse, partner, or significant other feels differently, [...]
In Southern France’s Languedoc wine area of Fitou, good wine is paired with family traditions I’ve known Sabine for four years now; it’s hard not to know one of the only people in a town of 500 who can sell you rosé they made themselves, especially when you’re as big a fan of rosé as I [...]
Cool NYC cocktail bars for the cosmopolitan Travel Belle It really started with Sex and the City. Whatever you think about Carrie and her pals, the show bought a whole new generation to the delights of the mixed drink. Cosmopolitans may be yesterday’s news, but the show’s host city of New York still offers a [...]
Rather than serve up the standard fare and bullet point sparkling wine types for New Year’s, today we’re going to check out some New Year’s traditions around the world. We’re going to focus on customs from several well-known winemaking countries, some wine-related and some not. Perhaps you’ll pick up a few New Year’s celebration ideas [...]
Finally, everything you need to know about how to buy wine. Quick! Name one industry that has as many brands with similar looking packages and similar tasting items as the wine industry. I think it’s virtually impossible. I’m not sure how things worked out this way, but unlike shopping for hand soap or cookies, shopping [...]
This month our resident wine expert, Elizabeth Schneider, reports in from her current visit to the Napa Valley. Planning a vacay to the Napa wineries I’m excited to tell you that, as I write, I’m actually sitting in a hotel room in Napa after a long day of exploring wineries up and down this Valley. [...]
Some East Coast food and wine travel to the Virginia vineyards around Charlottesville has an altogether different vibe than a visit to California wine regions. I moved to Washington, DC almost two years ago from San Francisco, CA. When I lived in California, I enjoyed taking weekend road trips with my husband to Napa, Sonoma, [...]
Wine and Travel: The Perfect Pairing for Travel Belles and other “Normal People” Editor’s Note: Happy 4th Wednesday! Welcome back to Elizabeth, our wine columnist, who visits each month to talk about food and wine travel. Long Island Wineries Long Island? The land of Amy Fisher? The runner up for gold-chain-adorned, muscle-shirted, overly-tanned cheeseballs (clearly the [...]
Everyone knows that the Hawaiian islands are a place of incredible beauty, but a place where wine is made? Maui wine? What do they make the wine with, pineapples? Mangoes? Passion fruit? Well yes, they do make several pineapple wines—even a sparkling wine. But they also make several grape wines with names you’ll recognize, like Syrah and Chardonnay, [...]
Meet Your Virtual Wine Travel Guide We are thrilled to introduce you to Elizabeth Schneider of the blog Wine for Normal People, who each 4th Wednesday of the month will enlighten us about two of our favorite things: wine and travel. Before I became an ultra wine dork, I was in love with travel. And [...]
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There’s more to Mallorca, Spain than sunshine and sandy beaches Mallorca, the tiny island off the coast of Spain is know to many travelers for it’s beautiful beaches, all-inclusive resorts and vibrant nightlife. What many vacationers fail to see, though, is Mallorca’s historic and enchanting villages. Set away from the tourist hotspots, these villages provide [...]
Fork in the road that looks like a heart, near Sancerre, #France by @gomarwrites
