Tasty Tales
The Netherlands
"For everyone who puts their heart, time and craftsmanship into making great wines, beers and spirits."
About Tasty Tales
At Tasty Tales, we explore the stories behind wine, beer and spirits. We visit vineyards, breweries and distilleries across the Netherlands, Belgium and other parts of Europe, meeting the people who make them and discovering the places where they are produced.
Since 2014, we’ve shared our discoveries through stories, photography and video with curious drinkers and travellers who want to look beyond what’s in their glass.
Tasty Tales was founded by Johan de Ligt (WSET-certified) and Alle van der Wal. What brings us together? Our love of good food and drinks, discovering special places, and, above all, telling the stories behind them.
The finest drinks don’t just happen. They are the result of time, craftsmanship and passion. That’s also how we approach Tasty Tales. Over the years, we’ve met countless brewers, winemakers and distillers and listened to their stories. If there’s one piece of advice that has stuck with us, it’s this: focus on quality and take the time to do things right.
Almost everything you see on Tasty Tales is our own original work. From our writing and photography to our short videos, we create the content ourselves, with only a few images in our blog posts coming from other sources.
Weekly updates are simply not possible and not our goal, but with more sponsors, websiteviews and subscribers to our YouTube-channel we are able to make loads more of these tasty short stories. So join us also on YouTube and hit that subscribe button... after all, it's free!
To make it possible to keep on delivering quality content, Tasty Tales really has become a collaborative project and we are thankful to have the chance to work with some amazing people.
The Team
Johan de Ligt - Founder, Writer, Producer, Sound
Fascinated by the interaction of sound and moving images. Fell in love with all the wonderful stories behind tasty wines, beer and spirits. Wannabe rockstar dad.
Alle van der Wal - Co-founder, Cameraman, Editor
It’s in his DNA to highlight the best of everything. Whether it is his award winning filming, his experimental cooking, his warm family, Alle loves it all intensely!
Berthe Bogers - Sworn English to Dutch Translator (video subtitles)
A professional gardening (and medical) translator and self-proclaimed cat lady, Berthe loves sitting in her tiny city garden having a beer with friends, reading, writing or just watching the bumblebees that have found a home in her kitchen wall.
Sumairy Mendez - Travelguide, Spanish Translator (video subtitles)
With more than twelve years living abroad and seventeen countries explored, she's an expert globetrotter. When not travelling, translating and showing people around, Sumairy likes to read and learn new languages and enjoy a good wine.
Our contributing authors
Johan de Ligt - With over 90 columns published, Johan has been writing for a number of media magazines. Until he realized that writing about wine, beer and spirits is even way more fun!
Tina Rogers - Tina is a certified beer geek and beer blogger from Rotterdam. When she is not drinking beer or writing about it, she is a vegan foodie and book addict.
Martijn Buisman - Beerblogger, formerly on the Dutch Beer Pages. After a stint at Oproer Brewery in Utrecht now on Hop Culture Reference, writing about the culture and history of beer in The Netherlands.
Work with us
To date, we have visited over 75 wineries, breweries and distilleries in The Netherlands, Belgium and across Europe. We are a largely fan based platform with a social media following that has grown to 30.000 followers. You can find us on Instagram, X/Twitter (not for long anymore), Threads, Blue Sky, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Tasty Tales is based in The Netherlands but our reach is global. If you are a European winery, brewery or distillery and want to be featured, please don't hesitate to contact us.
For sponsoring, advertising and all other enquiries please contact: info@tastytales.tv or call us directly at +31 (0)6 5107 6282.
Like to support us? Join the Tasty Tales tribe and check out our Patreon page.
Anything, from $1/month up, is hugely helpful to the cause!
