Blind wine tasting adventure

In the depths of winter and with our guides for cycling tour in the Boston office is our favorite thing to do?
Blind tasting course!

So how does this? Well, Andy Levine, founder of DuVine gave Tom Coppock, Manager of the Italian tour and Tommy Pace, Tourist Guide of French a budget of $40 and has asked to get out and find the best wine regions as we travel on our France cycling tours and Italy bicycle tours and back in for a tasting.
Blind tastings are always great fun and include lots of interesting as - terminology funky, earthy and plush, all great wines terms and the favorite "trusted nose!"
The two wines who bought were:
Chateau de 2001 Bard-Haut, St. Emilion, Bordeaux, France2006 Bianco Aldo, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy.
Two of these wines come from regions that we manage our bicycle tours and indeed Tommy climbed by exact vines that produce the Bard of Chateau-top.  Thus, the big question was could Andy correctly guess wine country and the region?
You'll have to watch the video to see what happened.

DuVine Adventures opened a new Office in the Brazil

Filed under: Active Travel, Adventure Travel, bicycling, Brazil - tags: Active Travel, Adventure Travel, cycling tours, Brazil luxury bike tours - Bike tour guru @ 4: 12 pm

We are pleased to announce that the efforts of the Community travel marketing agency will be a priority in 2011.  After one season 2010 stellar recipes places by more than 40%, we are improving our efforts with a new and important affiliate marketing with an emphasis on Latin America sales.

"The timing is ideal for DuVine to extend its presence to the Brazil adventures," explains President DuVine Andy Levine.  For 10 years, we have seen a steady increase in our bike tour luxury and adventure travel company the Brazil and we want to make it easier on the Brazilian book their travel adventure with DuVine traveller.  "Our goal is to increase our guest account for 10% of our total business 15% in 2011 Brazil," says Levine while being confident that will establish the Office allow us to do so.

Opening Office in Rua Cônego Eugênio Leite, 920 - DuVine Pinheiros allows travel agents and passengers the possibility of contact DuVine in Portuguese, as well as in their own timezone and receive customized in Portuguese as a brochure, Web site and documents visit marketing materials.  DuVine Adventures celebrate the opening of this Office 6-10 April 2011 when attending Travel Week Sao Paulo with their newly hired sales and marketing firm in the industry, JG Black Book travel.

"DuVine service in Latin America, North America and Australia travel agency community investment will meet unrivalled levels in 2011", explains Alisa de Gaspé Beaubien, Vice President of DuVine Adventures.  DuVine always welcomed the community agency business and the "thanks to this major investment for 2011 we are convinced that our range of expansive products, as well as our unmatched flexibility to operate customized visits enable us to succeed in this field" comments from Gaspé Beaubien.

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Well, it is the time of the year, resolution time!

Who knows where the tradition started, but it has certainly become popular.  Some resolutions only last a few days, and we know all these types of resolutions.  Other resolutions are fully achievable and help lead us in the year by adding the richness of our lives and the lives of others.

Here at DuVine adventures we went around to the Office to see what resolutions we could find; Some lists were long and some are short, but here are a few that we wanted to share with you:

Andy - stretch more before and after my wrinkles.

Alisa - to share the pleasure of a Piemonte Chardonnay with friends and take my DuVine dream trip to Switzerland.

Holly - to try to cook more and go green and making it less waste.

Ed - mount my bike every morning temperature is greater than 25 degrees... and it is not too cold nor too windy, from March, the end of March.

Gwen - to work on the purchase of a place of my own with my very own garden and of course add in the usual working resolution 5 times per week and to return to form BUT… upwards all other annual resolutions that seem to never last more than two weeks, I am a resolution final to keep those resolutions.  "Ask me next year how I've done"

Michelle - to reset my sleep cycle so that I can retire to bed with enough time to hit the gym before work, get to each class in my Spanish course, come and join us in a tennis league.

Neshelle - be my first trip to Europe, preferably Italy!

If you have some resolutions to share their post in the comments section below.

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Top 10 DuVine Adventures Blog Posts 2010

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As we continue our tradition of DuVine Adventures Top 10 Lists, which have included: Top 10 Bike Rides, Top 10 Wines and Top 10 Hotels for 2010 we are rounding things out with our Top 10 Blog posts of 2010, as voted by our guests and followers with your viewing (courtesy of our Google Stats).

This year was a big year for blogging at DuVine, which included just about everyone in the company contributing posts on many of our bicycle trips and adventure travel destinations, as well as documenting the interesting things that we and our guests get up to throughout the busy season.  So let’s get straight into it, the Top 10 Blog Posts of 2010 in order:

1 – Harpoon Brewery to Brewery Ride – A chronicle of the single day marathon ride undertaken annually by DuVine Founder Andy Levine.  Checkout the day-before-food and the day-of-food for your next epic ride.

2 – A Brief History of Bicycle Racing in Europe – as the title states, a brief history of bicycle racing, highlighting the strange ways in which racing has evolved in Europe, touching on two races where we have our own bicycle tours: the Giro d’Italia bike tour in Italy, The Pyrenees Bike Tour – Tour de France and The Alps to Paris Bike Tour – Tour de France.

3 – Tuscany Bike Tour – A Day in the DuVine Life – one of a series of posts where we break down in detail all the interesting things that take place on a specific tour day, in this case, a day from our Tuscany bicycle tour.

4 – A Novice Cyclist in Tuscany – written from the perspective DuVine staffer Holly, this post chronicles her experience in riding the Tuscan hills for the first time.

5 – Adventure Travel in Jordan – this post covers a scouting trip by Andy to create one of our newest trips, an adventure travel experience in Jordan.

6 – Mendoza, Argentina by Bicycle – if you’ve ever wanted to know what it was like to bike through the valleys and vineyards in Mendoza, Argentina than this is the post for you.

7 – Market Day in Provence – one of a series of posts that we did featuring the popularity of market days across Europe and in particular what might be experienced during a market day on our bicycle trip in Provence, France.

8 – Where in the World is Andy – European Tour – as one would expect, Andy is our most prolific traveler and the “Where in the World is Andy” blog posts and videos where always filled with unique experiences and this European tour post covered some of our most popular: bike tours in France and bike tours in Italy.

9 – Next Stop Norway – written by DuVine Marketing Manager, Dede, this blog covers her exciting and sometimes harrowing experiences while scouting out a possible destination and adventure travel trip to Norway.

10 – Lost and Found in Newfoundland – Founder Andy Levine leaves no stone unturned in investigating the world over and Newfoundland was no exception in this blog post.

So, check out these posts we are sure that you will find them great reading!

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