Nobody warns you about the perfume rule before your first winery visit. Nobody tells you to practice spitting at home, or that holding your glass by…
Author: Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks is a travel journalist and photographer based in Austin, Texas. He has covered adventure destinations, travel gear, food tourism, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia for over a decade. His guides focus on honest, experience-based advice for serious travelers.
Bordeaux has centuries of prestige. Napa has the marketing budget. Tuscany has the Instagram algorithm. But none of that tells you which wine region is actually…
Six wine regions. One month. No press trips, no operator relationships, and no incentive to tell you anything other than the truth. The problem with most…
Day one in Rome, Barcelona, or Lisbon and most travelers make the same mistake. They wander into the nearest restaurant, order something familiar, and spend the…
Paris has a reputation for butter-drenched everything. That reputation is now at least a decade out of date. The city added more than 90 fully vegan…
Blandy’s Wine Lodge sits right on Funchal’s main street. Travelers walk past it, spot the sign, book a tasting, and leave convinced they’ve experienced Madeira wine.…
Spend two weeks planning a trip to Bali or Oaxaca, then book a cooking class in five minutes on the way to the airport and you’ve…
Porto has a food tour problem not a shortage of them, but too many that look identical on paper. Three hours, ten tastings, port wine at…
Forty-five wineries. A village you can walk end to end in fifteen minutes. And a restaurant scene that has no business being this good. That gap…
Playa del Carmen has two food scenes. One exists for tourists walking 5th Avenue. The other exists for everyone who turns off it. The gap between…