About us

A life without wine?

Hard to imagine - once you have discovered its beauty and its complexity. Having a home in Ireland does not really predestine you for this discovery and for becoming a wine lover. Living in a wine country like Germany with the proximity of France certainly helps. But many of our Irish friends for example started to enjoy our wine evenings and private wine tours - as did our German, Dutch, American and French friends and acquaintances. But most of them either lacked the time to invest in research for their trips or lacked the knowledge. They came to us when they wanted to go on a two day wine tours in Alsace or three day wine tours in Burgundy.

This was when the idea of the personalised services we are offering to you now was born! Individual modules for individual trips. That makes us different from a tourist agency, which we are not! We are a wine travel advisory service!

Activities are centred around Birgit Dederichs-Bain, wine–consultant, wine lover by nature and a policy consultant in her other working life. She has travelled extensively and is used to coping with the demands of a very hectic work schedule. German by birth, she lives in Westport (Ireland) and in Cologne (Germany) with her Irish husband Colin.

Birgit and Colin in Melbourne and Bordeaux