Rolling cypress hills, Renaissance cities and Sangiovese wine โ Tuscany is the Italy of the imagination
Tanzania's official capital since 1974, in the middle of the country and the middle of its wine region; parliament sits here, the embassies stayed in Dar es Salaam.
Rebuilt entirely in Art Deco after the 1931 earthquake, in the Hawkeโs Bay wine region.
The French Huguenot valley of the Cape winelands, a wine tram and the best restaurants in Africa.
Cape Dutch gables under oak trees and the oldest wine estates in the country.
Tasmania's second city: the Cataract Gorge in the middle of town and the Tamar valley wineries.
The heart of America's wine country: 400 wineries, the Wine Train and hot-air balloons at dawn.
Plane trees, the Arslanagic bridge and Herzegovinian wine, half an hour from Dubrovnik.
The 'city of love' on a hill above the Alazani valley, inside 18th-century walls in the Kakheti wine region.
A medieval Firewatch Tower over a Gothic and baroque centre on the Austrian border, next to Lake Neusiedl.
Madeira's capital: wicker toboggans down from Monte, the flower market and Madeira wine lodges.
The Olympic Museum on a hillside above Lake Geneva, with the Lavaux vineyard terraces next door.
The Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums in a valley of vineyards, with the Black Forest an hour away.
The cathedral where French kings were crowned and the champagne houses tunnelled into the chalk beneath it.
The capital of the Dukes of Burgundy: mustard, the Owl trail through the old town and the Cote d'Or vineyards south.
Half-timbered Alsace at its prettiest, the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Alsace wine route on the doorstep.
Central Europe's largest lake.
Baroque town of castles and bull's-blood wine.
Danube stretch of terraced vineyards, apricot orchards and the ruined castle where Richard the Lionheart was held.
Port-wine country of terraced vineyards along the river, tasted at the quintas and seen best from a rabelo boat.
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