Archive for May, 2010

People love such a trip where the breakfast is in Boro Boro Island, lunch in Paris and Dinner in Las Vegas. But people whose day starts with Beer gargling, in lunch it should be wine and before Dinner its Margaritas, and with dinner the red wine and finishing up till back in wee hours of morning shots of Tequila and bourbon.

The top ten list of all the international destinations, which are different Mecca’s of booze. Where the wines will ooze out as if a river, where there is a lake of champagne and mind it this is not a list of party destinations, not a place where you can grind that ass on to the floor, not just a place where you think you will hook up with pretty damsels, and definitely not a place for uneducated drinker, who doesn’t even know the pleasure of swings he is taking from the crystal glass.
This is the places where aficionado’s of wine, beer and spirits can enjoy on the zeal of drinking and they know what is being served and mixed for the concoctions and their finer aspects of the drink being sipped on. Here people are known as ‘drinkies’, where there is culture of wine and beer. And being to any of these places you are bound to have the hangover yet the vacation will not cease and you will be out again to get the next day hangover.

International Destinations: Munich, Germany Oktoberfest

Munich, Germany which hosts and celebrates traditions of 16-day festival every year in where there is rivalry to begin days of boozing with parade, songs and dance. And then there is the flowing stream of strong German beers and sipping through big mugs rather flasks like are at least some six million people who are residents and boozers from all over the world. This is out and out fest to booze, though nothing like an annoying drunk-celebration fests like Mardi Gras or Carnival, Oktoberfest has carved out its own niche and that’s because Germans aren’t amateur drinkers, they don’t like to show up people. Here the German’s appreciate drunken comradeship. Also boozers will even invite unfamiliar persons to share their huge wooden beer-hall tables. And other festivals are more about sex, Oktoberfest is just about beer and beer, with adding of polka and sausage thought sometimes sex is secondary.

International Destinations: Road Trip through California Wine Country

Am not suggesting of drinking and driving, that’s bad and should be avoided. But road trip through California Wine country is one way to have booze and rest and then move on road to have next booze. But mind it you’ll need to plan out ample of time for ultimate boozing road trip. You can start with Santa Barbara County and have a Sideways-like adventure with Babcock, Kalyra and many more wines. The best time is going in April and kick start with the Vintner’s Festival, which exerts a pull on hundreds of wine mongers from all over countryside and houses all the wine producers at one place. Hang about a couple of nights in some windmill hotel of the Solvang a Danish-themed town, and thereafter drive north to the Napa Valley and Sonoma countryside which centers hundreds of wineries. While on the trip save for this end place because it’s pricey up here.
International Destinations: The Great American Beer Festival
Smck down time- Denver festival of The Great American Beer Festival is a magnet to hundreds of breweries, whatsoever the size is big or small, from all around the country as they compete in the ultimate and ultra American beer SmackDown competition. Taking accolades is Colorado which is already numbered as the best beer-producing state to visit, and even without festival. The festival is packed with so many breweries that are ranging from the large corporate like Coors and also award-winning breweries like Dry Dock and Fat Tire which are small breweries and even some eccentric niche breweries like Ska Brewing Company. This destination needs a full week during September for visit during the festival, and then visitations to the state’s hundreds of brewpubs.

International Destinations: Martinique Carnival, French West Indies

Martinique Carnival, with love of rum or Hemingway. All the wannabes who love to booze and just take in delight with every sip, this is the only destination and fest that will satisfy the thirst. While Carnival in Rio or Mardi Gras is for obnoxious drinking, but it is annoying for true booze fanatic, Martinique’s celebration that happens before Ash Wednesday is bit wild, but not at all obnoxious. Eminent high-life aficionado Truman Capote cherished the event. On this small island, seven distilleries, producing 20 varieties of “rhum,” that’s rum and being the hub of Caribbean rum production. The Depaz distillery, since 1651, it uses fresh blue sugar cane. And it’s amazing; you’ll drink it on the rocks with bottoms up while gaping at sexy island lasses parading in the streets, almost wearing nothing. With the craze, and so much fun Martinique Carnival will make you get hangovers for days. And if you need some rest, take a tour of St. James distillery, which has the well-stocked Martinique Rum Museum. After all you are on boozing vacation!

International Destinations: The Kentucky Bourbon Festival

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail in Bardstown is a hot for boozing destination for any spirits fanatic. You will love the hike to this trial, but remember out one foot forward another and don’t fall on your way. As most of the major bourbon makers have their distilleries which are within an hours drive of the small town: Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Heaven Hill, Four Roses, Wild Turkey, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, and 1792 Ridgemont Reserve. The five-day festival every September celebrates bourbon with plenty of tastings, history and drinking tales. Imbibe like an old West settler at the Old Talbott Tavern, which is the oldest Western stagecoach stop in America

International Destinations: Mendoza-Argentina: International Destination for South American wine

Chile frequently steals the limelight in the International Destinations for Wine but when it comes to South American wine, conversely, Argentina, which is the world’s fifth-largest wine producer. And its wined are famous for it’s made up with the Malbec grape. The focal point and the hub of the Argentina’s wine production-Mendoza, a historic prefecture. Mendoza is also famous for adventure and thrill seeking sports and in winter for winter sports of skiing. But Mendoza is entitled to be the best-developed wine destination on this continent, yet the Mendoza boast to be crowded with educated drinkers who knows what the red wine of the house. Mendoza has charismatic and the laid-back Latin allure, which makes tourists want to booze on wine all day. Mendoza exports only 6% of its wine production, on your booze vacation try out a new wine each glass and on each day.

International Destinations: Krakow, Poland for Vodka Tours

Vodka may be the mistress of Russia’s boozing scene, but if looking out for the best place for losing wits in a Stolichnaya bottle, Poland is the modest vodka engine that could. As a matter of fact, some historians believe that the alcohol may have been invented here. Krakow-the oldest Polish cities and giving home to many distilleries and the tour to this place features multiple vodka distillery tours and even tasting while tour around the city. Famous for exclusive vodka blends produced since the 16th century, you’ll love to booze on Krupnik-a honey vodka, Zubrowka -a bison grass blend and Goldwasser-the great-great grandfather of Goldschlager.

International Destinations: Jalisco, Mexico for The Tequila Trail

It’s sad that people think tequila is only for sophomore and college days only, and with countless body shots of contemptible tequila in college has ruined this superb alcohol for so many people. Whatever group you belong, tequila shots or find irresistible the blue agaves juice, this jaunt is a blast. The newbie’s will learn what real tequila is and oldies will once again love the shots. The real tequila is made in Jalisco, Mexico and this area produces this alcohol which more than 90% of the world’s tequila. In the fields of blue agaves, huge distilleries Cazadores, Jose Cuervo, Tezon, Sauza, and Herradura, are all located.   This place in all over the world has more types of tequila than you ever could even know of, and that’s guaranteed. And here you must booze on the almond-flavored Almendrado for never forgetting experience.