Wine · a Vonda Wanderlist
Slopes you can taste.
597 places for wine travel, gathered from every corner of the map.
Wine country is geography with a pour: river bends, volcanic hills and cellar towns where the vintage is the local news.
This collection follows the awkward slopes — terraces too steep for machines, cellars cut into tuff, towns that built their entire architecture around the harvest. Drink where it grew; it travels worse than you do.
via Wikimedia CommonsFirst stop
Tokaj, the sweet spot of Hungary
Volcanic hills, noble rot and cellars furred with centuries of black mould that the winemakers treat as a colleague. The kings of Europe took delivery here first; the tasting rooms still act like it.
✦ September and October · $ · Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary
Chapter I
Iberian slopes
Sherry solera towns, canyon-side terraces, plaza towns where the barrels outnumber the parking spaces. Spain takes the slope, gives back the glass.
Chapter II
Cellar country
Central Europe's wine towns — limestone hills, stork nests, streets of low cellar doors. Modest labels, immodest afternoons.
Every place in this Wanderlist
7 places, no itinerary.
Tokaj
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary
✦ September and October · $
Jerez de la Frontera
Andalusia, Spain
✦ spring and autumn · $$
Ribeira Sacra
Galicia, Spain
✦ spring and autumn · $$
Haro
La Rioja, Spain
✦ September and October · $$
Mikulov
South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
✦ September and October · $
Badacsony
Veszprém County, Hungary
✦ September and October · $
Znojmo
South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
✦ September and October · $