January 2011 – Missinwine

By - Caroline
Posted on January 27, 2011
Posted in General wine biz stuff
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Born Digital Wine Awards – Recognition for us online wine journalists!

At the close of the European Wine Bloggers Conference (EWBC) in Vienna Robert McIntosch from wineconversation.com and Ryan and Gabriella Opaz from Catavino.net introduced us to the Born Digital Wine Awards (BDWA), a kind of Pulitzer Prizes for online wine communicators. On the BDWA website the organisers describe the awards as following: “The Born Digital

By - Caroline
Posted on January 16, 2011January 17, 2011
Posted in wine tasting
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Wine pairing with an Amsterdam Twist:-)

On Saturday I met my friend Ilkka Siren and was lucky enough to sit in on the filming of a historic episode of Viini TV. Ilkka had paired up with Franco from the Green House Seed Company and I was to witness the first ever wine and weed pairing. I have to admit to find

By - Caroline
Posted on January 15, 2011January 15, 2011
Posted in wine tasting

New Zealand Annual Trade Tasting 2011

On Tuesday 11 January I went to the New Zealand Annual Trade Tasting (ATT) at Lords in London. It was the 30th Edition of the NZ London ATT and I guess New Zealand wine has come a long way in the UK since the early beginnings of the tastings… On Tuesday there were around 400

By - Caroline
Posted on January 9, 2011
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Why every winery should be signing up for AVIN codes?

On Monday I met with my friend Andre Ribeirinho from Adegga.com and we had a good conversation about the AVIN. Up till then I had only heard very little about this project, but the more I talked to Andre, the more intrigued I became. I would like to share with you why I believe every

By - Caroline
Posted on January 1, 2011
Posted in networking, wine marketing
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Lessons learned from Ryan O’Connell’s #levin20 presentation on social media and wine marketing

Today I would like to share the presentation Ryan O’Connell from O Vineyards gave at le #levin20 – I found a video of his presentation last week and I have been thinking about what he was saying ever since. First let me explain a little more about LE VIN 2.0 – it’s an event which

Month: January 2011

Born Digital Wine Awards – Recognition for us online wine journalists!

Wine pairing with an Amsterdam Twist:-)

New Zealand Annual Trade Tasting 2011

Why every winery should be signing up for AVIN codes?

Lessons learned from Ryan O’Connell’s #levin20 presentation on social media and wine marketing