📸 Wine regions your camera can't handle

Published about 19 hours ago • 2 min read

Hi Reader,

Confession: I have an absurd number of vineyard photos on my phone. 🫣

I'd love to tell you they're all carefully composed.

But a solid chunk are the same hillside shot eleven times.

Because I refused to accept that my phone wasn't capturing what my eyes were seeing. 🤩

Some places just don't fit in a photo. You have to go stand in them.

Here are five that are worth putting on your calendar, not just your camera roll.

🌊 Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia
Two hours up the coast from Dubrovnik, the Dingač vines grow on slopes so steep it's hard to believe anyone farms them.
👉 Pelješac Wineries Guide

🌄 Dundee Hills, Oregon
Rolling red-soil hills where the morning fog lifts off the vineyards and Mount Hood turns up behind them.
👉 Dundee Wineries Guide
👉 Dundee, Oregon Itinerary

🏔️ Stellenbosch, South Africa
Wine farms ringed by mountains on nearly every side, with white Cape Dutch gables in the foreground of every photo.
👉 Stellenbosch Wineries Guide

🌅 Malibu, California
An hour from downtown LA, vineyards hide in the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains, just a short drive from the beach.
👉 Malibu Wineries Guide

🚂 Douro Valley, Portugal
Terraced vineyards stacked above a river, and a train from Porto that runs along the water if you'd rather skip the winding roads.
👉 Douro Valley Wine Tour Guide

The wine is reason enough to go to any of these. The view is just the part you'll still be talking about a year later.

Cheers,

Laura

P.S. Which wine region has the best view you've ever seen in person?

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