Wine travel · Small group, one sommelier
Go somewhere the wine comes from
A week in wine country with someone who can read the label, order the lunch and tell you why the hill matters. You unpack once. I’ll handle the rest.
Why go with me
The difference is the person pouring
You can book a wine trip from a brochure and have a perfectly nice time. You’ll see the châteaux, you’ll taste the wines, and about three weeks later most of it will have blurred into one long pleasant afternoon.
What I add is context. Why this slope and not the one across the river. Why the producer you’ve never heard of is the one worth carrying home. What to order when the menu is in French and nobody’s offering to translate. It’s the difference between seeing a place and understanding it.
And I’m on the trip — not waving you off at the airport. Every meal, every tasting, every “what am I actually drinking here” question over breakfast.
Where we’re going
Coming up
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Burgundy & Provence, June 2027
See the trip: Burgundy & Provence, June 2027Eight days sailing north from Arles to Lyon, through Provence, the northern Rhône, Beaujolais and into Burgundy. Four of the best wine regions in France in one week, and you only unpack once. June 29 to July 6, 2027.
How it works
You book with the cruise line. You travel with me.
Booking
Handled by the cruise line, with their protections, their payment plans and their cancellation terms. Not a deposit to a one-woman business in Tacoma.
Cost to you
The same as booking it yourself. I’m paid by the cruise line, so having a sommelier along adds nothing to your fare.
On the trip
That’s me. Tastings, meals, the detours worth taking, and someone to ask when you can’t work out what’s in the glass.
Before you go
I put the group in touch ahead of time, so you arrive already knowing a few names rather than working the room on night one.
Nobody has ever regretted coming on their own.
Travelling solo
Come alone. You won’t stay alone.
A good number of people on every trip book by themselves, and they’re rarely the quiet ones by day three. I play matchmaker before we sail — introducing solo travellers to each other ahead of time, and pairing up anyone who’d rather share a room than pay the single supplement.
Some of those pairings have turned into friendships that long outlasted the trip. That isn’t a sales line, it’s just what keeps happening.
If you’d rather have your own room, email me and I’ll get you the single-occupancy figure for the trip you’re looking at.
The list
Pack your bags, pour the wine
Trips open to the list before they go anywhere else, and the good cabins go early. Tell me roughly where you’d want to go and I’ll let you know when it’s real.
kat@zenwineclub.com