www.winetraveller.net

Hey! I’m ba-ack… It was a fantastic year away, I met amazing people and learned so much about the wines of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina – and much more besides.

I loved working the harvest both outdoors and in in New Zealand, I cleaned many a shiny stainless steel aparatus, worked harder than I have in my whole life and have decided to do it all over again in the Northern hemisphere from September in California. So the site will life on, in one form or another, so keep watching this space (or perhaps a slightly different one*) and I’ll try and get better at writing as I go!

* I’ve decided to rename the site shortly, stay tuned to see what I’ve chosen… With “winetraveller.net” it has come to my attention that people have had a couple of issues finding the site – the word ‘traveller’ : TRAVE-LL-ER (english english spelling) vs. TRAVE-L-ER (american english spelling) and the slightly unusual dotnet ending was enough to throw many people…

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Hello! I’m Alex, the wine traveller, and I’m off on a year-long trip around the Southern hemisphere, visiting as many wine producing areas as possible on my way.

My travels start in August, so watch this space for updates on where I am, what I’m doing and what I’ve been drinking!

The plan is to start in South Africa, flying into Johannesburg, then touring round the coast eventually ending up in Capetown to stay with my brother, and tour the Cape winelands.
Then in early October I’ll be heading off to Australia, arriving in Perth, then on to Margaret River, before flying to Adelaide and beginning the overland journey to Sydney by around Christmas, stopping along the way in places like Clare, Barossa, McLaren Vale and the rest!

In the New Year, the plan is to head over to New Zealand, where I hope to get some gainful employment in a winery for the 2008 vintage February ’til May or so…

Then it’s going to be a case of meandering my way back to Blighty through South America, visiting the wine growing regions of Chile and Argentina among other places.

The trip, while being based around wine, something I love, and have been lucky enough to work with for the last few years, will also doubtless involve plenty of other adventures along the way, in particular I hope to keep up my mountain biking, and ride some quality Southern hemisphere singletrack!

Due to the nature of my travels… backpacking and keeping everything as light as possible, I’m not carrying a laptop or anything, so my updates can from time to time get a bit sparse, and sometimes a little behind… but it’s all coming, just keep checking back to see what’s new!