If you are into wine, you may already know what the WSET acronym stands for. If not, here is the quick answer: Wine & Spirit Education Trust. WSET is a prestigious educator in the world of wine and spirits and provides highly sought-after qualifications for wine and spirit professionals, such as our own Zephyr Adventures Continue Reading →
Category: Food, Wine, Beer
Oregon Wine Adventure – A Closeup Look at the Eola-Amity Hills AVA
Wine often expresses a sense of place. Place is attributed to by a number of different factors: layers of mineral deposits and sediments left after millions of years of geologic activity that contribute to different flavor profiles; climatic factors like temperature patterns & annual precipitation that have an effect on vine growth and, therefore, trellising practices and Continue Reading →
Zephyr Adventures Back From Paso Robles, CA
Zephyr Adventures has been showing people a good time for over 17 years. Whether it’s riding a bike through the countryside or hiking through vineyards, Zephyr Adventures usually says Cheers! with a pint of beer or glass of wine in hand at the end of the active day. Given our penchant for the good Continue Reading →
Taste Vacations in the New York Times
Taste Vacations, the new food, wine, beer, and spirits tour company from Zephyr Adventures, was included in today’s New York Times travel section. I would like to say we were “featured” in the paper but the article was just a few paragraphs. Still, the New York Times is one of the best locations for a Continue Reading →
Zephyr Adventures Launches New Tour Company: Taste Vacations
We at Zephyr Adventures are extremely proud to announce Taste Vacations, a new luxury travel company that focuses on food, wine, beer, and spirits tours in premier travel destinations around the world. We have been organizing active tours around the globe for the past 17 years now, starting as an inline skating tour company and Continue Reading →
A Spontaneous Belgian Blend
Belgium is a very small country where people think very small, very local. We call ourselves sometimes “parish”-minded. Having to go somewhere 120 miles away is for us mentally the same as a trip from the East Coast to LA for many Americans.
Dinner at Restaurant Montmirail in Venasque, Provence, France
On night five of our Provence Biking, Food, and Wine Adventure we have what is usually the best meal of the tour. Granted, the food is usually excellent throughout France and this is doubly true in Provence. But the Restaurant Montmirail in the Hotel Montmirail where we spend the night serves delicious food in an Continue Reading →
Cooking Class in Provence, France
If you are a foodie, it must sound like a dream to take a cooking class in Provence. France is obviously famous throughout the world for its cuisine and Provence within France is considered near the top of French cuisine, thanks to the abundance of fresh local ingredients. On our biking tour in Provence, we Continue Reading →
Provence, France: Gourmet Day of Bicycling
If we are so modest as to say so ourselves, on our Provence Biking, Food, and Wine Adventure we have a truly spectacular day set up that perfectly combines these three elements. We call this day “Bike for Lunch” and it involves multiple stops at local food and wine establishments in the morning, where our Continue Reading →
Become a Beer Tourist with us in Belgium!
Chances are “beer” and “tourism” are two words you’ve likely never put together. When you travel, you likely put high consideration on the destination, sights, perhaps the food, and if you’re a Zephyr traveler, then you certainly consider the activities offered in the area. Beer Tourism may not be a buzz word yet, but we Continue Reading →