Wine travel guide offers free insider content

Booking a holiday to a famous wine region and wondering where to stay, eat, shop – even which winemaker to visit? Look no further than the Wine Travel Guides website, which has decided to allow free access to its 1,500 pages of insider content from the start of this month.

Previously, the 50 guides to France, Italy and Spain compiled by a team of wine and travel writers were only available to paid annual subscribers, but now all website visitors can freely view the information.

“I decided to free up the 1,500 pages of information to be viewed by the growing number of travellers to Europe who are interested in wine tours,” said wine writer Wink Lorch, who launched The Wine Travel Guides website in 2007.

“In-depth information is hard to find about travelling through European wine regions and we fill that gap with our comprehensive, well researched guides,” she added.

Printable PDF guides are also available to purchase and the website continues to offer annual gold membership allowing the most recently updated guides to be downloaded at any time.

The website will accept selective advertising in the future but Lorch said: “All our recommendations are strictly independently chosen and will continue to be so. We accept no sponsorship from individual wineries, hotels, restaurants or other recommended attractions.”

For more information visit www.winetravelguides.com

Patrick Schmitt, 05.11.09