Food and Wine Tours to Georgia, birthplace of wine, And Armenia.

 

At the World Travel Market in London. Armenia wwine tours. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The next World Travel Market will be 4-6 November 2025 at ExCel exhibition centre in East London.

Useful Websites

Armenia

https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/food-drink-tours

Georgia

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g294194-Activities-c42-t204-Georgia.html

World Travel Market (trade show)

https://www.wtm.com/london/

Greyfriars Vineyard near london

Mike, the owner of Greyfriars Vineyard, at the London Wine Fair. Photo by Angela Lansbury. copyright.

 Mike the owner of Greyfriars Vineyard says, 'We are 35 minutes on a train from London. A few miles outsiide Guildford, between Guildford and Farnborough.

'We have tours and tasting flights. On a Saturday in summer we have a food truck, four through the season, You can pre order a charcuterie package.'

Mike is sometimes there, if not one of his 'valued helpers'.

Greyfriarsvineyard.co.uk

Wine tours to Laguardia, with old walls and wine cellars in Rioja wine region of Spain

Laguardia is a place in the Rioja region of wine in northern Spain.

 La Guardia is a walled village perched on a rocky outcrop. The walls date from the 1300s, with four gates in the walls and steep streets.  La guardia in Spanish and Italian means the guard.

Wikipedia has photos of an aerial view of the pedestrian only village, a picturesque calle (sounds like alley) side street, and the historic local writer and poet born in the 1700s.

Photo from Wikipedia by cvbr

For more about the Spanish village of La Guardia, with a population of only 1500, a cosy size, see:

http://www.travelinginspain.com/basque/laguardia.htm


For wine tours the writer suggests Madrid and Beyond:
http://www.travelinginspain.com/travel_agent.htm

Here's a link to a website about sherry wine tours:

http://www.travelinginspain.com/wine/wine_tour2.htm

The writer and his wife went to the traditional Fernando de Castilla Bodega and the Lustau Bodega., and the modern Ysios winery.  

They stayed in a La Posada Mayor de Migueloa Hotel, a barogue palace.  If you look on Tripadvisor you will find several delightful hotels and restaurants.


Traveller tips: The hotel has steep stairs. You have to park outside the city and either you or a member f staff will carry your luggage to the hotel. So pack a small lightweight bag for your entire trip, or split your luggage into two to be carried by two people or just have an overnight bag.
Also see Tripadvisor.

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The next post is about LaGuardia in New York.