Drinking around the world: Take a trip to Lanzarote, wine paradise
The latest wine region to erupt onto the wine tourism atlas is Lanzarote, with the Canarian island hoping to be among the first destinations to revive European wine tourism.
With travel restrictions lifting, a former investment banker and surfing instructor from Guernsey and a former GB Olympic swimming trials finalist from Sunderland want to make sure we sample the fruits of the La Vendimia grape harvest and find our way to the Rubicon.
Channel islander Ollie Horton gave up the finance industry rat race to become a Lanzarote tour operator, offering wine tourism trips in the Canaries. When Covid kiboshed that, he set up the Wine Shop Lanzarote with Geordie sports coach Dan Priestley and Swiss Sven Grossenbacher, who runs his own design and media business.