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The Explorer Tour
 
Biodynamic farming at Lynmar Estate The Explorer Tour can be as laid back or as upscale as you would like. This tour is everything the Seeker Tour is, but we make all the arrangements for you. We will design your personalized trip AND make all the required reservations for a perfect relaxing wine vacation. This tour includes private winery tours, picnic lunch, lodging, and a special dinner for two with wine. Your days can also be filled with hiking, biking, relaxing by the pool, and you can add any optional excursions (see list below) to your tour. One of our favorite excursions is to have a day exploring the wine region with your own limousine and driver.

Included in the Explorer Tour:
• Lodging
• Dinner at a prestigious restaurant, with menu and wine selected by a local chef
• Two private winery tours
• Picnic lunch at a winery (weather permitting)
• Surprises
• Suggestions of other options and excursions
• Maps of the region
• A wine journal
• A wine carrying bag
• A wine bottle opener
• A written itinerary and map detailing each day


Fees:
This tour starts as low as $700 per couple per night. ViciVino.com requires a 50% deposit upon booking the Explorer Tour. We accept Paypal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. The balance of the tour will be charged to your account 7 days prior to the start date of your trip. To inquire about more details of this tour please write to info@vicivino.com, or start the process by filling out the wine travel questionnaire.

Tour Philosophy:
The ViciVino.com tour philosophy is to have you learn about the process of making wine from the vine to the bottle to the table. We will customize the tour depending upon your exact interests, which region(s) you want to visit and how much time you have. What you will have at the end is a tour, perfectly designed for you, taking you from grapes to glass. Each tour has four components, ... read more

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  • For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
    ~ Thomas Becon
  • Grapes are the most noble and challenging of fruits.
    ~ Malcolm Dunn
  • Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
    ~ William Shakespeare
  • After-dinner talk across the walnuts and the wine.
    ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.
    ~ Stephen Phillips
  • Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.
    ~ John Masefield
  • Veni Vidi Vici Vino! [I came, I saw, I conquered Wine]
    ~ Lori Lapides
  • Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
    ~ Johnny Mercer
  • Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
    ~ Lord Byron
  • Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, an' fill it in a silver tassie.
    ~ Robert Burns
  • And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.
    ~ G.K. Chesterton
  • The wine they drink in Paradise they make in Haute Lorraine.
    ~ G.K. Chesterton
  • Wino Forever.
    ~ Johnny Depp
  • The smell of wine, oh how much more delicate, cheerful, gratifying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil.
    ~ Rabelias Gargantua
  • Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
    ~ Samuel Johnson
  • If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
    ~ Cardinal Richeleu
  • Wine and wenches empty men's purses.
    ~ English Proverb
  • Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after.
    ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan
  • Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
    ~ 1 Timothy, 5:23
  • Wine gives us liberty, love takes it away. wine makes us princes, love makes us beggars.
    ~ Wycherly
  • Wine ... cheereth God and man.
    ~ Judges, 9:13
  • Wine is bottled poetry.
    ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
    ~ Shakespeare
  • Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach.
    ~ Spanish saying
  • The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.
    ~ French proverb
  • I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
    ~ Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
  • Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.
    ~ Anon French Proverb
  • He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
    ~ Martin Luther, 1777
  • God made only water, but man made wine.
    ~ Vixtor Hugo, 1856
  • Blessed is the fruit of the Vine.
    ~ Jewish Prayer
  • Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
    ~ Louis Pasteur
  • What though youth gave love and roses age still leaves us friends and wine.
    ~ Thomas Moore
  • Up to the age of forty eating is beneficial. After forty, drinking.
    ~ The Talmud, 200BC
  • Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
    ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler.
    ~ Titus Maccius
  • Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
    ~ The Book of Psalms
  • How much better is thy love than wine!
    ~ The Song of Solomon
  • Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
    ~ The Song of Solomon
  • Over the wine-dark sea.
    ~ Homer
  • Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
    ~ Alcaeus
  • It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
    ~ Heraclitus
  • In vino veritas [In wine is truth].
    ~ Proverb quoted by Plato
  • I am falser than vows made in wine.
    ~ William Shakespeare
  • From wine what sudden friendship springs!
    ~ John Gay
  • Who does not love wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long.
    ~ Johann Heinrich Voss
  • What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine.
    ~ Thomas Moore
  • Con pan y vino se anda el camino [With bread and wine you can walk your road]. ~ Anonymous: Spanish Proverb
  • Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
    ~ Ovid
  • Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
    ~ Aristophanes
  • Hey Man, I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays.
    ~ Donald Sutherland
  • Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
    ~ Robert Fripp
  • Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
    ~ Austin O'Malley
  • In water one sees one's own face; But in wine, one beholds the heart of another.
    ~ An Old Frech proverb
  • Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of care.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You can have too much champagne, but you can never have enough.
    ~ Elmer Rice