France

As our list of partners grows we've decided to launch a post titled Deal Friday. Every week we will work with one of our partners to come up with an exclusive discount that Lazenne followers or purchasers of Lazenne's wine travel accessories will benefit from. This concept will surely evolve with time, but our intention is to bring to you some of the best our partners have to offer, for a little (or a lot) less.

To kick off Deal Friday, we've partnered up with Paris Apartments Plus. Their newly launched upgraded website will make planning your trip to Paris a seamless experience. They not only offer holiday apartments for rent in the City of Light, but as well a host of concierge services and activities that can be included with your booking.

There are striking wines, and then there are striking vineyards which have become landmarks in their own right thanks to their innovative design.

For those avid wine travellers who are planning to taste their way through the vineyards of Europe this year, here are a few Lazenne favourites which have to be seen to be believed. Can you squeeze them into your itinerary?

One of our favourite events of the calendar is just around the corner, next Tuesday to be precise. It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, when everyone celebrates being Irish, whether or not we are! March 17^th is an annual excuse to wear ridiculous green novelty hats and glasses, roll out our excruciatingly bad Irish accents and drink a pint or two of Guinness, wherever we are in the world.

That we pay homage to the patron saint of Ireland by drinking the country’s (even world’s) favourite malt beverage is hardly a surprise; after all, the Emerald Isle doesn’t exactly boast a thriving wine industry, does it? Yet, it made us wonder what saintly wines existed, so we did a bit of research. It turns out that the French may be the holiest of them all, with an impressive array of appellations (AOC’s) bearing a saintly name.

We all know people who plan their holidays around sporting events, like the FIFA Football World Cup. Others match their leave dates with music festivals, such as Glastonbury and Coachella. Then, there is another group, the wine lovers; where holidays always seem to conveniently take place in wine producing regions and coincide with grape festivals.

If, like us, you fall into the latter category, here is a selection of the world’s best wine festivals to mark in your holiday diary and ignite your wine wanderlust: