If days of enjoying fine food, fine wine and fine accommodations sounds like your idea of a perfect vacation, you can find all of this and more by booking a stay at a New York bed & breakfast.

The Arbor View House Bed & Breakfast, tucked in the village of East Marion, is the perfect Long Island escape. The historic New York inn is near a myriad of local attractions, including more than a dozen prominent wineries.

The Arbor View is a perfect mix of modern amenities and historic ambiance. Antiques decorate the lovely guest rooms, and luxurious linens top the king- or queen-sized Sealy Posturpedic mattresses. Each guest room has been named after a type of wine, and each includes a private bath. Several rooms also offer a fireplace.

There are plenty of amenities, from the soft robes, slippers and fluffy towels in each guest room to the library stocked with games, books and a selection of DVDs.

The four-course breakfasts are a treat and rated among the best in the area. Guests are treated to the morning meal either on the terrace, if weather permits, or in the formal dining room by candlelight. After breakfast, you can explore the local area, walk to the beach or do absolutely nothing if you so choose.

For those in need of extra relaxation and pampering, the innkeepers at this New York bed & breakfast offer a vast menu of spa treatments. Soak in an aromatherapy bath or indulge in a couples massage.

The innkeepers are happy to help guests plan a day (or perhaps several days) of local wine tours. Many of the local vineyards offer tours and tastings. In addition to regular tastings, many of the wineries host special events such as chocolate and wine tastings, historic farm tours and even a unique wine camp.

Jane Leisteiner enjoys going to inns and blogging. For more details about this New York bed and breakfast inn or additional information about inns, go to the Arbor View House or iLoveInns websites today.

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One of the best known and delicious red wine is Syrah, which known as Shiraz in Australia, South Africa. Generally known as red, but sometimes winemakers do great rose wines too. Pepper, blackberry and plum flavored, but in some countries such as France and U.S. with a touch of the chocolate. Food lovers can consume it with many foods. Best pairing suggestion said: beef, lamb, spicy foods or veal.

Different Syrah wines are available on the market. Their style depend on the climate, where they were planted and on special cellar techniques. Syrah grape of California generally hand shorted and the process is based on gravity flow. Finally in the cellar winemakers do a longer period pre-fermentation phase with 5-ton stainless steel fermentors. A very unique purple color wine from this state the Smoking Loon Syrah with a touch of sage, wild strawberry and mocha. Try it with Lamb Vindaloo.

Many Australian Shiraz makers are proud to their wine as usually is very fruity. Australia has a special, warmer climate which brings out fruit flavors especially in Southern regions. An excellent choice from Victoria region is a Reserve Shiraz (2002). Vineyard use French and American oak to get extra vanilla over the black pepper aroma. A special matching for this wine is Rare Roast Beef.

Mentioned pepper aroma especially comes from hot summer regions, like Washington State. Second best American main region has many vineyards. One of the greatest is is Walla Walla valley. Reininger Winery’s Syrah is a dark color red Syrah. Intense fruits and mineral are in the bottle. As a spicy food Chili Con Carne is a marvelous option for your wine dinner.

South Africa is part of the New World Wine Countries. Shiraz even better than Cabernet Sauvignon. As we could see Californian wine makers use stainless steel fermentors, South Africans use oaks from America and France. They aged their wines for a half a year. Icon of the country is Indaba Shiraz from 2008. It has lively flavors like blackberry or blueberry. A great offer for you to try its dark chocolate flavors with a Lemon Chicken.

It was only a small part of the world of Syrah (Shiraz). Many great tastes are in bottles and glasses. Difficult to choose your favorite. Our short guide showed you some pairing tips for different wines from this great grape. It is a very unique wine for even heavier dinners, but do not forget to consume it on the highest temperature of red wines, 65 F.

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Californian vineyards are beautiful. There are many regions in the state and you cannot fail. You would like to know everything about wine? California provides you everything. Even on the field, even in the cellars or even in the bottle. Follow us into the heart of wine state.

California’s climate is excellent for wine making. There are many well-known regions, you can find the three best with us.

Our motto: Wine making process is a unique environment in California where aroma from the bottle will surrounds you and fulfill your organs.

If you go to Sonoma County/Valley you should visit Reche, Viansa, Cline Cellars or Benziger Family wineries to get great wines. They are just a part of the 250 wineries on 20.000 acres. If you find 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon then try it immediately.

The county sprawls through warm valleys shielded from any Pacific influence and cool ones defined by ocean wind and fog. The cooling effect peters out as you get into Sonoma Valley proper, so warmer-weather grapes thrive: Sauvignon Blanc, Cabs, Syrah and Zinfandel. Like spicy Lake Sonoma Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel from 2006.

Tour around Napa Valley. Incredible, more than 300 wineries located in the valley north of the San Francisco Bay Area. Napa Valley (as Sonoma too) offers many many options for a great wine tour. Beside wonderful wineries Napa offers great restaurant, so you can choose a fine menu next to your white or red. We should highlight 2005 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon which is a great choice for your steaks or roast or many cheeses. Barbera and Dolcetto are also widely known here with their special varietals.

We have just arrived to Russian River Valley. A beautiful place around Sonoma County. Russian River is part of a sub region and in there you will find Chalk Hill, Dry Creek Valley, Green Valley and Sonoma Coast. From the excellent vineyards we choose firstly Hartford Family Winery. This is a family-owned winery. Hartford’s specializes in single-vineyard Chardonnay and old vine Zinfandel.

One of the best known wine maker is located in the Hanna Winery. Great Russian River Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir what they make. A unique offer from this region is a Rose: JCB N69 Pinot Noir Rose (2007).

Enjoy your winery tour!

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No question: one is the best reason to visit France is the wine. They produce the most wine. They drink the most wine. They export the most wine. You must see their vineyards. Without an endless list we try to suggest shortly for you the best tours and winery visits to keep time to book your favorite trip.

If you are in Provence you have many choices to see great wineries and taste some fine wines. One of the best place for visiting is Chateauneuf du Pape. Lovely villages are around this countryside.

This wonderful place was where Van Gogh made some nice works. Taste Syrah, Grenache or Cabernet Sauvignon around there, then visit Lavender Museum in the heart of the city.

Do not surprise if you find some wine tasting chances in the capitol as well. Paris has some great restaurants where you can taste some wines. Short programs (wines from Bordeaux to Lyon) are popular in Paris.

Apropos Bordeaux! After stepping into the small city, Saint Emillion’s restaurants we find ourselves in a different world. They offers many wines around the neighborhood. Anyway there are lot of cellars there where can reach by buses. One of the best wine is Mourverde.

Even better wine tasting and learning opportunities are in Burgundy. Take a tour in this region’s greatest wineries and cellars. Discover the wines of Morey Saint Denis or Chambolle Musigny. Find out how they make wines and how they taste their elderly wines.

You can call it Bourgogne. Doesn’t matter. The fact is that The Burgundy wine is one of the most popular wine in the world.

Red Burgundies prefer Pinot Noir and the white: Chardonnay. Yes! Do not forget: France is not just about reds. Called Grand Cru wines make up 2% of the production at 35 hectoliters per hectare, while Premier Cru wines make up 12% of production at 45 hectoliters/hectare. These wines often should be aged 3-5 years, but consider the best wines can keep for much longer.

Finally a tip if you would like to take some rest as well: St. Tropez and its neighborhood. (27.000 hectares)

Find here some Rose wines. But this southwest region is also popular due to Chardonnay or Mourverde.

As you saw world wine known France offers you great opportunities for traveling and tasting in the wine country of Europe.

Have lots of memorable moments!

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Wine is one is the best reason to visit Argentina. They are the fifth biggest wine and grape producer in the world. It has eight grape growing regions spreading from north to south. Even around Buenos Aires (Paris of South America) you can find nice vineyards. Argentina is a beautiful and a leading winemaker country. Before buy your ticket plan with us your tour!

Las Bodegas. This is how people called wineries in Argentina. There are many of them, that’s why we would like to only highlight the greatest ones. This way you can choose your favorite one and then visit it.

In the western part of Argentina visitor find the biggest wine regions. At the foothills of the Andes Mountains where the climate is special. At this region’s midday temperature is between 95 and 100 F. Night can be much cooler, even 50F. We can say this climate is similar to Continental areas, but the frost is a rare occurrence.

Best known and the largest region in this country is Mendoza. This region gives for the world 65 percent of the South American country’s yearly wine output.

This region offers great wine tours for traveler as this is a large source of income for Mendoza farmers. Nice for the eyes: great view of Andes, romantic and great history of wineries gives you memorable moments. Ideal destination for a vacation. Very nice autumn can be experienced in April and May. Great and well known wine from here the Ben Marco Cabernet Sauvignon.

San Juan region is the second largest producer of wine with over 116,000 acres. Its climate same as Mendoza’s. Hot in the summer. The center of tourism for San Juan is in wine production. Over 60% of the agriculture is developed into the local varietals. Bodega Colome Amalaya is home of the berry flavored Syrah, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon.

As in Spain in Argentina you can find La Rioja region which is not far from San Juan. Typical flavors are in their wines such as cedar, spicy tastes and strawberry. They have many visitors as well. Best known wine is a premium category red: Luca Pinot Noir.

More and more people knows a smaller region the Cafayate. It is a very developing are of the country. There were a lots of investments around there in the last few years. If you like white, choose Quarra Torrentes, but reds also great here like Quarra Tannat. Tannat is a special and rare grape around here.

I hope we gave you some valuable travels to this country’s most interesting wine regions.

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