Released on: September 23, 2008, 6:18 am

Press Release Author: P Karlsson / BKWine AB

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Press Release Summary: The specialist tour organiser BKWine has launched the spring
program 2009 with two new wine and food tours. The destinations include Périgord
(with truffles, duck and wine), and the wins and food of the Alentejo in Portugal.
The detailed programs are available on www.bkwine.com.

Press Release Body: The specialist tour organiser BKWine has launched the spring
program 2009 with two new wine and food tours. The destinations include Périgord
(with truffles, duck and wine), and the wins and food of the Alentejo in Portugal.
The detailed programs are available on www.bkwine.com.

“The trend towards active holidays seems to continue” says Britt Karlsson, founder
of BKWine, “so I think that the two spring tours will fill up quickly”. Britt
continues: “I am particularly happy that travellers have started to discover that
springtime is also a good time for wine and food travel. There’s no harvest, of
course, but there are plenty of things happening in the wine cellars. Plus summer is
approaching with brighter evenings and warmer weather”.

The two tours on the spring program are both classics:

- Truffles, foie gras and wine in the Périgord (south-west France), including a real
truffle hunt, a half day cooking workshop with duck and foie gras, and wine of
course, February 11-15

- The Alentejo in Portugal, a wine region that is on the forefront of the modern
winemaking in Portugal, with gourmet specialities like the pata negra ham, March
25-29

The tours are organised by Britt Karlsson, founder of BKWine and one of Europe’s
most active organisers of specialists wine and gastronomy tours. Each tours is
scheduled around a long week-end, starting Wednesday evening and ending on Sunday
morning, giving travellers the opportunity to combine it with other activities –
golf, culture, shopping or other things. The three days with BKWine as filled with
winery visits and food events. All tours are led by Britt herself.

Britt summarizes her philosophy with her tours: “I want the travellers to have a
unique experience that will stay with them for a long time after coming home. At the
same time I hope they come home knowing a bit more about the wines and food of the
places we visit, so there’s definitely an educational part. But most importantly I
want to share some of my enthusiasm for the wine, for the food and for the regions
we visit”.

BKWine is a tour organiser that focuses solely on wine and gastronomic travel. Over
the years the company has organised more than two hundred wine tours to France,
Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Germany and Austria. BKWine also arranges custom
designed tours.

For more information on the wine tours:
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm, contact: Britt Karlsson,
info@bkwine.com, ph +33 6 80 45 35 70.

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More information:
- About the Wine Tours: http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm
- About BKWine: http://www.bkwine.com/international/about_bkwine.htm
- Press photos: http://www.bkwine.com/diverse/press.htm (Additional press photos
from our 20.000 picture library are available on request)

Press contact:
- Britt Karlsson, ph 00 33 6 80 45 35 70, info@bkwine.com
- Per Karlsson, ph 00 33 6 83 51 12 53, info@bkwine.com

About BKWine AB:
51, rue du Chevalier de la Barre, F-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris), France, 00 33
6 80 45 35 70, info@bkwine.com, http://www.bkwine.com
BKWine AB is managed by Britt Karlsson, a Swede living in Paris. She is one of the
few Swedes working internationally with wine education and wine journalism and is
also a very experienced organiser of wine tours. She started her business in the
early 1990s. Since 1995 she publishes a private newsletter called "VinNytt" with
articles on wine. The same year she launched one of the first wine web sites:
www.bkwine.com, which is now bilingual (English-Swedish). She also publishes an
email newsletter - the BKWine Brief - which in a short time has grown to become one
of the most wide spread newsletters on wine. "The Brief" is available in English and
Swedish - for free. Britt is completely independent of wine producers and of the
wine trade. She is a member of the British Circle of Wine Writers, the International
Wine and Food Society and numerous other wine and gastronomic organisations.


Web Site: http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm

Contact Details: BKWine AB
51, rue du Chevalier de la Barre, F-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris), France, 00 33
6 80 45 35 70, info@bkwine.com, http://www.bkwine.com