ABOUT US

Sharing our wine travel experiences to inspire and help you plan yours!

Love Wine, Love Travel, Love Life!

This says it all really!

We are wine travel enthusiasts, wine tourists and wine lovers, who are also wine tourism specialists. If you love to combine wine and travel, to explore your passion for the world of wine, as well as experience some of the world’s most stunning scenery and sights, different cultures, foods and traditions, then you’re in the right place!

We can inspire and help you to plan your next wine travel adventure, be it a wine tour in one of the best wine regions in the world, a wine tasting experience, winery tour or vineyard tour, or perhaps you’re planning a European road trip and are looking for travel inspiration to help you uncover the people and places which will help make those special memories!

Wine bike tour, Graach in Mosel, Germany

Explore our wine travel blog for travel inspiration - check out our wine tourism destinations - contact us to see how we can help you with planning a wine tour to make your next wine travel adventure truly memorable.

Why us?

Benefit from our insights, knowledge and contacts to help you plan the most authentic, immersive and memorable wine tourism experiences, both in the world’s top wine regions, as well as the underrated wine regions.

Our unique experience in both the wine and tourism sectors, combined with out our local knowledge and local connections, that are not available to the everyday traveller, will not only save you time and money, will deliver the full ‘vine to glass’ experience you are looking for from a wine tour.

We are both WSET level 2 (Wine & Spirits Education Trust) trained and through our time in the wine industry, have gained significant experience working with wine producers and top winemakers and organising wine tours across Europe for sommeliers and customers.

We have both travelled extensively, for work and leisure and between us have a unique understanding, perspective and appreciation of different cultures.

We have excellent contacts in the world’s top wine regions, with local wineries, wine tourism providers and tour operators and also work with a multi award-winning tour operator when putting together package tours. This provides the backing of a large UK based HQ and a unique financial protection scheme to give you financial security and peace of mind when booking your wine tour.

Our story

Back in 2004, after years spent building corporate careers, we decided to start a wine business, importing top quality European wines from little-known wine producers - The Wine Keller was born.

Our passion for wine, food, travel and culture combined with our business, sales and marketing career experience enabled The Wine Keller to grow rapidly, with an impressive list of private customers, supplying wine to major UK hotels, hotel chains and top restaurants - including Cliveden House Hotel in Taplow, Corrigans, Trishna, The Orrery and Bentley’s Oyster Bar in London and the Vineyard in Stockcross, Newbury.

Despite its success however, the timing wasn’t right and family commitments led us to put our wine ambitions on hold, knowing that one day we would pick it up again when the time was right.

Cycling in Burgundy — *A wine bike tour in Burgundy*

After many more years in corporate life and raising our two boys, we found ourselves wanting to go back to our shared passion of wine and travel. This time we didn’t want to simply buy and sell wine, we wanted to help people discover and realise their own passion for wine and travel, to experience wine from behind the label, through the growing world of wine tourism. We also wanted to help promote the amazing wine tourism destinations we were discovering, along with the fantastic winemakers and their fabulous wines!

We are enormously fortunate to now have more time to explore and appreciate the amazing people, traditions, lands and stories that make up the wine in our glass - and our greatest passion is to help others enjoy the same experiences!

Some things we believe in:

Wine and travel together is a match made in heaven
Wine is one of life’s greatest pleasures, a drink to savour and to share and to appreciate with those we love
Wine provides the passport to experience what lies behind the label - the people, their country, their passions, their culture, their traditions
Every wine lover should have the opportunity to discover and properly experience beautiful wine regions which may be new to them
If you enjoy wine, you deserve to explore wines that have been made with love, provenance, honesty, and respect for nature and our environment – and to experience where these wines have come from, how they are made and the people who have made them
Sustainability - environmental, economic, social - is the only choice for the future
Smaller, family winemakers should be able to fairly compete with the mass producers