Wine Museums Worldwide - WOW - which ones to visit?

WoW stands for World of Wine, also the exlamation, wow! It is a huge wine complex in Portugal, on the hillside overlooking the river. The city is called Oporto, Oporto, on a hillside above the port in Portugal, easy to remember. But that's not the only place to find a wine museum.

After the London Wine Fair, where I saw the stand of Georgia, which claims to be the birthplace of wine, I started thinking about wine museums. Some have supermarket size shops and restaurants. Others have cellar doors offering tastings, sometimes free food, other times platters of food if you have a group and book and pay - and mini-shops, and vineyard visits, with self-guided or guided tours.

I have visited Vineyards all over the world, and I have been to the memorable wine museums in Cyprus and Italy. 

Italy

Italy has huge mosaic floors from Roman villas, showing the Gods of wine, and the Romans reclining and drinking.

The one in Torgiano, Italy is in Umbria, next door to and west of Tuscany, not far from Florence. 

France 

Paris has a wine museum. 

Beyond Paris is Rheims in the Champagne area. There numerous Champagne houses offer tours and tastings.

In France, the port of Marseilles was established for the ships carrying wine. 

Bordeaux has a huge modern museum of wine. The name Bordeaux means border or edge of the water, meaning waterway. Wine drinking and export dates back to the time before air travel and even proper passable roads. Then travel was mainly by boats down rivers and in ships across seas.

Portugal

In Europe the biggest range of museums and gifts such as wine stoppers and socks was in WOW in Portugal. A series of museums on a hillside, like Disney, kept us busy all day.Videos, tastings, and a plastic tumbler to take home included in the price.

The Douro museum, along the river Douro, included a sniff section. The large ground floor shop entertained me with wine soaps and novelties.

Museu do Douro, Portugal. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

USA

California has many wineries, vineyards and shops attached. We drove along, up north from San Francisco. As we got further from the big city, the price of a corkscrew got lower and lower. One of the vineyards had a train tour, but we arrived too late. 

I saw lots of great gifts. In addition to wines, corkscrews, wine racks, bottle covers. Books for keeping a record of wine you've tried and liked. Books for storing bottle labels. 

Websites of Wine Museums: 

• Vino Versum Poysdorf, Austria
• Wine Museum (Pleven), Bulgaria
• Wine Museum, Ehnen, Luxembourg
• Wine Museum and Enoteca, Brazil
• Cyprus Wine Museum, Limassol District, Cyprus
• Macau Wine Museum, Macau, SAR China
• Musée du Vin (Wine Museum of Paris), France
• https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/cultural-heritage/wine-trade-museum.html#:~:text=Discover%20the%20history%20of%20the,better%20understanding%20of%20Bordeaux%20wines. Bordeaux, France
• Museo del vino (Torgiano), Italy
• Douro Museum, Portugal
• WOW (World of Wine), Porto, Portugal
• Drăgășani Wine Museum, Romania
• Yilan Distillery Chia Chi Lan Wine Museum, Taiwan
• https://www.wineinvestment.com/learn/magazine/2021/05/seven-wine-museums-to-put-on-your-travel-bucket-list/
• Other wine museums are in Georgia, and South Africa.
• https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/travel/best-winemaking-history-musuems/?srsltid=AfmBOoqzqokP-8sps2EpFXIhSY0DOMgXWFRycZtFFHAO1WKp6bNWtsJy
• California Wine Museum Antique Shop, USA

Napa Valley wine train (lunches and day tours)

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Vinexpo Wine Paris Exhibition

 

Vinexpo, Paris, trade wine show, Feb 12-14. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

This show is for the trade, attended by wine producers around the world, those looking for distribution in other countries, hotels, restaurants and wine shops, big buyers and invenstors, and journalists who specialise in wine and spirits, beer, mixers and more. 

If you are not in the trade, or do not have the time or budget to attend, you can go to the website of the organizers, VINEXPO, or read in the trade journals, or local newspapers. 

Join the Bordeaux Crew, says the sign. Paris Vinexpo 2024. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

Useful Website

https://wineparis-vinexpo.com/

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How to read a wine bottle label - quick tips on areas, grapes

Your wine bottle could be a mere vin de pays, (wine of a country), vine de France, wine from France. Or it could be a regional brand, whose name is only permitted by copanies in the country or region, using specified ingredients, so that buyers know what they are getting from a group of producers, and get the same drink, more or less, year after year.

The UK term is PDO which stands for Protected Designation of Origin. 

Think of it as the district where your wine originates.

The European area uses the term AOP, French for Appelation 'D'Origin Protegee.

However the French themselves have an extra abbreviation, ADC using the word for controlled.

The Italians and Spanish use another set of letters, DOC, denominazione origin control ....

When you see these three letters, look for the coutnry, region or area your wine comes from.

It helps to know which names are places and which are grapes. 

Confusingly Prosecco for a long time was both a place name and a grape from that area of Italy.

Also the same grape has different names in different countries.

I like sweet wines and know to look for doux, literally soft, which means sweet, to avoid brut, like brutal, is dry.

Myfavourite grapes and regions for sweet wine are muscat from any country, Gewurttraminer (German for spicy), Sauternes (slightly sweet) from France, and Beaunes de Venise, but I have  an older one. 

Most lovers of French red wines go for burgundy,  which is dark red, burgundy colour, or Bordeaux, from western France's coast, whose name means border of the water. Eau is water, as in Eau de Cologne, water from Cologne, the German city, toilet water, not water from a toilet but a less expensive and less aromatic kind of mild perfume, for your skin, not to drink. The place name has an x, like the English s, for plural. Eaux is waters.

Champagne

We have done wine tasting trips around Rheims, near Paris, the Champagne region. The big houses usually have orgnaised timed tours with a guide in your chosen language and make a charge which includes a tasting and or disocunt on bottles at the end.

Languedoc

We recently did a tour of the southern France region around Montpellier and Beziers. Websites tell you whether you are visiting a shop which is open to people who drop in, or a windery, where you have to book a visit to be sure somebody will be there, and to get directions.  (Sometimes a gale blows down the sign or a rival winery will remove a street sign.) 

We went around the Languedoc area in January 2024. Languedoc means the land of the language oc, ocitaine. 

Languedoc region of southern France.

You can book wine tours around a region, for a half day, a whole day, or a  week, which allows you to drink and leave the driving to somebody else.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_origin

https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/

https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/bordeaux-vineyards-and-wines

More details

Vineyard

Caitriana Nicholson from 北京 ~ Beijing, 中国 ~ China - Vineyard

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VinExpo Asia 2023 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore - and news of a new wine museum in China, and the wine museum in Bordeaux, France

Marina Bay Sands

The elegant and unusual venue was chosen to reflect the prestige of the event.

 It is a trade only show bringing together buyers, importers and sommeliers. VinExpo Asia 2023 will be held at Marina Bay Sands, over three days, after a four year gap due to Covid..

A tasting event takes place the previous afternoon.

The expo  dates are 23-25 May, 2023, a three day event.

Expect to see exhibitors from wine producers as well as products such as Riedel glasses.

There will be  more than 1000 exhibitors from 35 countries which include (alphabetically)

Argentina

Aruba

Austria

Australia

Canada

Chile

China

Finland

France

Germany

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

New Zealand

Romania

Singapore

South Africa

South Korea

Switzerland

UK

USA

Masterclasses are 8 sessions which include California's Napa Valley.

Other exhibions will take place in Paris, France, India

New Wine Museum in China

The most exciting news I have already obtained from their press release is that a Universal Wine Museum is scheduled to open in Beijing in May 2024. One year from now.

One discovery leads to another. I found

Wine Museum In France

Meanwhile, before, after, as well as or instead of visiting Singapore for the VinExpo, consider the Cite Du Vin in Bordeaux, France. Everything for the adult wine drinker, and ,would you believe, special activities for children, too.

I shall add this to my forthcoming book, A Beginner's Guide to the Best Beverages and matching food, which covers wines and spirits, water, cocktails, coffee, and the apple and cheese - they say buy on an apple, sell on a cheese. I have more than a page of quotations about wine and drinking. I hope to bring you more information from VinExpo.

Useful Websites

https://www.laciteduvin.com/en/news/a-day-at-the-cite-du-vin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wine_museums

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A Tour of France - where to go? When?

 

The flag of France

Our friend has asked for advice on where to visit in France, by train, majoring on two locations. Her first thought was Paris and Alsace. She wants to be somewhere warm. On second thoughts she has struck off Paris and Alsace and because she like wine, she is heading south to Burgundy and Bordeaux.  

My family replied:

Yes, avoid Paris in August. Why? Because the restaurant owners and people head off to the cooler coast and the beaches when it is stifling hot in the city of Paris in August. 

However, do consider Alsace. It has beautiful scenery and architecture. It is also a renowned wine centre.

France is a huge country. Bordeaux on the west coast is a long way from Burgundy in the east. Bordeaux has vineyards spaces out along the banks of the river, all rather separate. You would want a whole week to do justice to Bordeaux. You cannot do the whole thing in half a day. The famous places are hard to visit unless you are on a guided tour, or guide yourself in a hire car.

Useful Websites

https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/coming-to-france/coming-to-france-your-covid-19-questions-answered/

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Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

Where are Burgundy and Bordeaux wines from? And what is a c a n e l é ?

I went to a wine tasting of French wines. We merrily debated whether wine should accompany food, or whether food should accompany wine!

The tasting was organised by a wine tasting club, which holds meetings at the back room of the Fulham Wine Rooms (restaurant, bar and wine shop) in Fulham, London, England.

We arrived to find wine glasses ready and waiting on a numbered sheet. A side plate had the sharp blue cheese to contrast and sweet small cakes to go with the wines.

The sweet wines we tasted were from Sauternes and other places in the Bordeaux region of France. Sauternes is a village in the south-west of France, in the Sauternes region. The Americans use the word sauternes with a small s to mean a sweet wine resembling wine from Sauternes.

However, the French protect the term which can be used only to describe wines from that region.

Sauternes, Barsac, and Cadillac are all in Bordeaux, which means the border on the water, or the river or seaside.

I tried eight sweet wines at a wine tasting club, which met at the Fulham Wine rooms (described in an earlier post).

My favourite sweet wines, both from The Sampler, which has branches in Islington in North London, and Wimbledon in south London. The one which was best value (the cheaper of the two), cost £10. It was Ch. Inc Hilhs Liquoreux 2011 Saint - M a c a i r e AC, a 75 cl bottle.

It tasted too sweet against a blue Roquefort cheese, better matched with the c a n e l é.

(I have inserted spaces because a spell checker changes the words after I have finished.)

C a n e l é
The French word ends with an accent on the e, an acute accent, making the e sound like an ay, with you your voice rising as if asking a question 'eh?'

This is a French tiny cake, well cooked, supposedly flavoured with rum. (I could not taste the alcohol, but it was a sweet little cake.)

(Not to be confused with the similar sounding Italian cannoli which is a cannon-shaped rolled sheet of pasta, as used around a meat or spinach filling in canneloni.)

My other equal favourite of the sweet wines, also bought from The Sampler wine shop, cost £35 and was Ch. Lamothe-Guignard 2003 2me Grand Cru Classé Sauternes AC. However, we had two bottles of this wine and both tasted different, maybe from two different barrels. One looked pinker than the other, and one was more grape-y. I had the second quality bottle, in most people's opinion, but I thought it was still great.

However, on price alone, I think the other bottle was quite good enough, and a much better price.

Best value, 5 - cinq is French for five.

Compare the wines. They look different colours.

This is the dearer of my two favourites, £35, and it was everybody's favourite.

BURGUNDY
Burgundy is diagonally north west of France, towards Germany and Geneva in Switzerland. (I use the g in Burgundy, Geneva and Germany to link the three places.)

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Wine Museums Around The World

You can visit wine museums in most of the wine producing countries.

Spanish Wine Museum
I visited an excellent wine museum in a village outside Haro, in the Rioja region of northern Spain. it has huge numbers of different vines planted outside alongside the car park with a path and plaques and notice boards, each vine labelled.

Inside was a large exhibition on wine, a supermarket size shop selling everything from bottle openers and wine glasses and books and postcards to scarves and clothes with wine bottle of grape motifs. An all day gourmet cafe and an expensive fine restaurant for lunch or dinner were also on the site, and a paid for cellar tour.

French Wine Museums
The USA Today website has a series of slides you can click on and read the text about the Cité du Vin museum. The city of wine is, of course, Bordeaux.

Wine Museums Worldwide
The Forbes website covers the Bordeaux museum but allows you to click on links to the wine museums in California, France and Greece.

Wikipedia lists other wine museums worldwide which include those in Cyprus.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36424039
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/food-and-wine/2016/05/31/cite-du-vin-bordeaux/85153062/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wine_museums  Cité Du Vin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wine_museums  list of wine museums
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eustaciahuen/2016/05/31/worlds-first-wine-theme-park-museum-opens-in-bordeaux/#2125202453c0
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/07/top-10-wine-museums-of-the-world/

Wine Museums:

CYPRUS
The Cyprus Wine Museum, 42 Odos Pafou (42 Paphos & Knights Street Corner, Λεωφ. Αποστόλου Λουκά, Ερήμη 4630, Cyprus

Phone:+357 25 873808

FRANCE
Hameau Dubref
There's another wine museum at 5 Square Charles Dickens in Paris.

GERMANY
I have fond memories of standing on a giant wine barrel in Heidelberg.

Mosel Vinothek and Wine museum
See reviews on TripAdvisor.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g198633-d1873535-Reviews-Mosel_Vinothek_Wine_Museum-Bernkastel_Kues_Rhineland_Palatinate.html

GREECE
Kouksoyannapoulos

MALTA
I took a tour of the Marvsovin premises with a tasting. This is a proper organised tour with a booking, a guide, tour groups, the history of the owners family, items used in wine making through the centuries a mannequin, a mock up of an old farmhouse vineyard, and colourful and amusing modern paintings by Maltese artists.

Photos by Angela Lansbury. 

We had previously taken the ferry over to Gozo where we saw a sign for free tasting and stopped. 

UK
Vinopolis, London;
 Berry Brothers wine shop in a historic building in London near Piccadilly. Berry Brothers hold wine tastings in their cellars in the evenings, must book, quite expensive.

Drive out to Denbies, on a summer day and you can book and pay for an indoor or outdoor wine tour. They have a ground floor cafeteria and a large shop, plus a grander upstairs restaurant.

The most striking thing about the outdoor tour, chugging uphill on a motorised 'train' was seeing the two vineyards on opposite hillsides, one in sun and the other in shadow, and suddenly realising what the French terroir or territory is all about.

Photos by Angela Lansbury.
Were we 'happy' with our indoor tour. It looks like we were.

I recommend both the indoor and outdoor Denbies tours. Luckily I did the outdoor tour first, and finished in the restaurant.  Once you've had the three glasses of wine included in the indoor tour, you are ready to eat.

USA
Drive north of San Francisco and you come to a wine region with a series of vineyards, shops and tours.

California Wine Museum
Americans have contributed to the funds need to develop the wine museum in France.

I shall give the last word to the French.
Napoleon said of Champagne, "In victory you deserve it; in defeat you need it!"

See my previous posts on wine tastings, wine fairs and museums.

Angela Lansbury, author of Quick Quotations, travel writer, researcher and photographer. Author and speaker.

Wine Museum Nicknamed 'Guggenheim of Wine' Opens In Bordeaux

A wine museum, Cité Du Vin, (City of Wine) nicknamed the Guggenheim of Wine by the Mayor has opened in Bordeaux in France. The word Guggenheim is after the New York art museum, famous for its spiral design (very novel in the days when most galleries and buildings would have been oblong).
However, the pictures of the interior reminded me of the central atrium in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. (Rather nearer to France than the USA.)

The museum is certainly avant grade. The outside is clad in aluminium. Inside are what look like column sized wooden wine bottles.

The price of 20 Euros, about 22 American dollars, about £10, includes a glass of wine - and a chance to admire a panoramic view over the riverside city through the slanting floor to ceiling windows from the rooftop wine bar (a bit like the exciting views from the Shard in London or looking along the river Thames from the Oxo restaurant).

You pay an extra $15 for an atelier (workshop). From next year, 2017, they will be opening the first of their exhibitions. Each year the exhibition will feature a different country. The exhibition entry will cost you an extra $8.

Videos show you historic characters such as Churchill, and Napoleon and French writer Colette (who wrote Gigi).

Bordeaux is a contraction of the words border and water which is how you remember it is on the waterside or seaside on the west coast of France. The new museum is also called the shrine to wine.

The outside of the museum resembles wine swirling in a glass. Inside it is modern but tall as a cathedral, very impressive.

Photo from Wikipedia.

Drive south into Spain and you can visit a Spanish wine museum.

Spanish Wine Museum
I visited an excellent wine museum in a village outside Haro, in the Rioja region of northern Spain. it has huge numbers of different vines planted outside alongside the car park with a path and plaques and notice boards, each vine labelled.

Inside was a large exhibition on wine, a supermarket size shop selling everything from bottle openers and wine glasses and books and postcards to scarves and clothes with wine bottle of grape motifs. An all day gourmet cafe and an expensive fine restaurant for lunch or dinner were also on the site, and a paid for cellar tour.

The USA Today website has a series of slides you can click on and read the text about the Cité du Vin museum. The city of wine is, of course, Bordeaux.

Wine Museums Worldwide
The Forbes website covers the Bordeaux museum but allows you to click on links to the wine museums in California, France and Greece.

Wikipedia lists other wine museums worldwide which include those in Cyprus.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36424039
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/food-and-wine/2016/05/31/cite-du-vin-bordeaux/85153062/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wine_museums  Cité Du Vin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wine_museums  list of wine museums
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eustaciahuen/2016/05/31/worlds-first-wine-theme-park-museum-opens-in-bordeaux/#2125202453c0
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/07/top-10-wine-museums-of-the-world/

Wine Museums:


FRANCE
Hameau Dubref

GERMANY
Mosel Vinothek and Wine museum
See reviews on TripAdvisor.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g198633-d1873535-Reviews-Mosel_Vinothek_Wine_Museum-Bernkastel_Kues_Rhineland_Palatinate.html


MALTA
I took a tour of the Marvsovin premises with a tasting. See photo in next post.

SPAIN
Near Haro, Rioja region

UK
Vinopolis, London;
 Berry Brothers wine shop in a historic building in London near Piccadilly. Berry Brothers hold wine tastings in their cellars in the evenings, must book, quite expensive.

Drive out to Denbies, on a summer day and you can book and pay for an indoor or outdoor wine tour. They have a ground floor cafeteria and a large shop, plus a grander upstairs restaurant.

California Wine Museum
Americans have contributed to the funds need to develop the wine museum in France.

I shall give the last word to the French.
Napoleon said of Champagne, "In victory you deserve it; in defeat you need it!"

Angela Lansbury, author of Quick Quotations, travel writer, researcher and photographer. Author and speaker.

French Wines: Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne - Beginner's Guide

FRANCE & French Wines
  Three very popular wines from France are Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy.

Champagne
Napoleon said 'In victory you deserve it; in defeat you need it'.
I first discovered this quotation when researching an article on Champagne cellar visits for Take A Break magazine. I now have several quotations on wines in my book Quick Quotations, and I am researching another book on quotations. Now back to some facts on champagne.

Champagne is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne in the north of France. The area is not far from Paris and is one of the nearest wine regions to the ports in Northern France and the ports in Southern England. The Champagne growers chief market was originally Britain. Famous Champagne houses include Moet et Chandon. Famous ladies in the old days were Veuve Cliquot and Madame Lilly Bollinger.

You can take tours around the champagne houses of Rheims and Epernay.

Bordeaux
  Bordeaux is the region on the border of the water (French for water is eau, the water l'eau, of the water, d'eau, of the waters d'eaux x being plural).
SW coast.
For easy to read information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux

Burgundy
East.
  Burgundy - dark red, wine colour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy_wine

Follow the links and you will find more links to
http://www.france.fr/en/art-and-culture/quiz-great-french-authors-and-their-masterpieces.html

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Bordeaux Château Helicopter Crash

Bad news - dreadful death of Bordeaux Chateau and vineyard's new owner and former owner in a helicopter crash just after the celebrations and press conference.
The new owner, now deceased, was Lam Kok. The previous owner was piloting the helicopter.
I have now found out that the lost son was not the only son. An older brother survives as well as the wife. This must be some comfort to the family. I first read the story in the mail on line. The South China Press has more. The widow is a powerful entrepreneur and I am glad to hear the large company will continue plans to expand the estate with a hotel so more people can enjoy the wines and the area.
On a lighter note, I looked with surprise at the dates of newspaper articles to find the latest. Then I noticed a couple dated 24th - tomorrow! Of course, it's tomorrow already as you travel further east.