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Sassi Italy Tours Wine Check Review

Recently wine-lovers and seasoned travellers at Sassi Italy Tours took our 15-bottle Wine Check airplane carrier, fully loaded with great Italian wine of course, for a flight across the Atlantic. ...

Your Hotel Booking to Wine Country Could be Better

Wine lovers like us, who are always planning our next trip to the next wine region, know very well that our hotel will probably be one of the largest expenses we'll have to make during our wine ho...

Golden rules for booking a flight

How to find the best price on your next flight to the next wine destination Wine lovers like us are always planning our next trip to discover the next wine region. Read:  Top Wine Regions in Euro...

How much whiskey can i bring back with me in my checked luggage?

Recently we've had more and more questions from travellers visiting Scotland and Ireland wanting to clarify how much whisky they can bring back to the US, or another country. The same goes for oth...

Wine Travel 2016: Where to Next?

A photo posted by Lazenne (@lazenne) on Aug 13, 2015 at 8:48am PDT Wine Travel 2016: Still Making Plans? We’ve got some ideas for you. If you joined us for The Great Piedmont Wine Giveaway ea...

Bulgaria: An Up-And-Coming Wine Region To Visit Next

By Zina Sorensen & Vasil Zlatev Bulgaria. Dramatic mountain ranges, alluring beaches, historic towns, picturesque villages and a rich culture.  Probably known more for its sandy beaches and gr...

What attracted me to Piemont, Italy

I'm going to be honest I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into at the time. Studying and working as a sommelier you get a chance to taste wine from many different wine regions around t...

The World of Wines Expo at Les Roches Celebrates Swiss Wine

Lazenne is absolutely thrilled to be sponsoring and attending the WOWexpo 2016 being held on May 14th at the prestigious Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland.

The Best Bubbles: Champagne with Grape Escapes

Today we feature a guest post from our friends at Grape Escapes, who organize tours to a number of great wine regions in Europe. We've asked them to share an upcoming wine tour that they're partic...

The Great Piedmont Wine Giveaway - we have a winner!

Thank you to everyone who entered The Great Piedmont Wine Giveaway!   In the past few months we have been talking about our Great Piedmont Wine Giveaway with blog Please Bring Me My Wine.  All r...

What you didn't know about the Priorat Wine Region in Catalonia, Spain

If you’re a wine lover, then you’ve no doubt heard about the lovely wine region of Priorat, home of critically acclaimed red wines, thanks to reviews by the New York Times, Robert Parker, Decanter...

Recent Reviews of Lazenne and the Wine Check

We love helping people take those special bottles of wine back home from their wine holidays. After all this is Lazenne's mission and the reason we founded the company. We also love hearing from o...

Best Day Trips from Barcelona For Wine Lovers

Looking for the best vineyard visits and wine tours from Barcelona? A visit to Alella and Penedes is a must! Barcelona is truly a fantastic world-class city, with top fashion, gastronomy, architec...

Last Chance! Piedmont Wine Giveaway

Have you entered our Wine Giveaway yet? You have until March 17!    Last month we announced our first wine giveaway of 12 bottles of Piedmont wine packaged in the Lazenne Wine Check.    We partner...

How to take alcohol in checked luggage on low cost carriers in Europe

Do you know how to take alcohol in checked luggage on low cost carriers? Check our guide.    Part of our work at Lazenne includes educating people on how to travel with wine. Back when we first sta...

Brunello and Montalcino: a paradise – not only for wine lovers Part II

Esther Mercedes Jürgens, WSET Diploma holder, has been living in Montalcino since 2012. In 2014 she founded Vino Vistas, wine tours and wine school. Last week we published her guide to her beautifu...

Brunello and Montalcino : A Paradise – Not Only For Wine Lovers

Looking east over Pianello quarter   As a wine-lover you are sure to have heard of Montalcino and its famous wine Brunello. No? Well then, come and join us for a little virtual tour. And even if yo...

The Best of Catalonia's Wine Regions

  Find and taste some of the best wines in the world   Among all Spanish communities, Catalonia might be the most mysterious and complex of all. It has everything to enchant all sorts of travelers...