Reading Time: Hello! Welcome to As Drunk by Exotic Wine Travel, a weekly column where we feature interesting wines that we encourage you to seek out. The reviews featured in this series may be written by either one or the both of us. The featured wines can be from obscure or
Tag: sauvignon blanc
Dagon Estate Sandridge Fetească Neagră Reserve 2016
Premiere Napa Valley 2018: Our Favorites
Cracking Croatian Wine in Plešivica
Revisiting Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Reading Time: We love the wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Earlier in 2017, we did a weeklong tasting trip through the region, visiting some iconic producers. After that trip, we became hooked on these wines. After six weeks touring through the wine regions of Hungary and Slovakia, our friend Vedran drove up
Wheeler Farms Sauvignon Blanc 2016
Chamlija: Wines of the Black Sea
Reading Time: When we made our seven-week trip through Turkey in the summer of 2015, we were green in the wine industry. What made the situation more challenging was the lack of online information about Turkish wine. The Turkish laws forbad advertising for alcoholic beverages, which included advertising on online domains.
Exotic Wine Travel’s 17 Wines of 2017
Reading Time: 2017 marked the third year of our location-independent lifestyle and the second year of our wine career. It was a momentous year for us---in the span of 12 months, we authored and published our second and third wine book Sipping Santa Barbara and Cracking Croatian Wine, traveled to seven countries, and tasted
Kellerei Cantina Terlan: Terlaner R, Terlaner Classico, & Sauvignon Winkl
Tasting at Rebenhof Hartmut Aubell and Herrenhof Lamprecht
Reading Time: Special thanks to Tom Leitner who set up the appointment with these wineries and also acted as our guide. Rebenhof Hartmut Aubell Rebenhof Hartmut Aubell is located in Südsteiermark, perhaps the most celebrated area among the southern Austrian wine regions. The green rolling hills of this area are steep and