The Great Wine Capitals is a Network of ten major global cities in both the northern and southern hemispheres, which share a key economic and cultural asset: their internationally renowned wine regions.
Get to know the finest wine regions in the world. This astonishing network of wine regions spans old and new world tastes and offers an exceptional guide to international wine tourism travel experiences.
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Great Wine Capitals Blog
August 16, 2019
Join us in the heart of the Napa Valley for Sequoia Grove Winery’s Terroir Tasting Experience. Learn the Sequoia Grove history, viticulture and winemaking practices and how the terroir of prominent Napa Valley AVAs is reflected in our wines.
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July 17, 2019
In 2019, the wine festival of modern food and wine pairings, travels through five Bordeaux appellations and invites itself to a Premier Grand Cru Classé.
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August 1, 2019
There are many foreigners in Mendoza who have orbited into Argentina’s wine capital for a change of lifestyle and to start working in wine — sometimes as a wine producer, sometimes as a sommelier and sometimes as a hotelier catering to the growing number of wine tourists that visit Mendoza each year.
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