wine eductation – Missinwine

By - Caroline
Posted on August 17, 2020April 22, 2023
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2020, wine eductation

The ABC on Champagne’s appellation setting

Champagne has long set its appellation based on sales forecasts. While it seems this system works well to meet market needs, it is deeply flawed. The Covid-19 crisis clearly shows the limitations of the current system and the reasons why an appellation compromise between houses and growers has yet to be found even if harvest has already started

By - Caroline
Posted on March 28, 2013March 29, 2013
Posted in Champagne, terroir, wine eductation, wine tasting
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Where I look for terroir and bubbles when I am not in Champagne

I am intrinsically attracted to quirky slightly off beat places and tend to look for them wherever I go. Today I want to talk about 2 of these places; I feel they belong in this blog as they have become a part of my life. Both are wine bars, both focus on terroir and both

By - Caroline
Posted on March 11, 2012
Posted in Natural Wine, networking, Uncategorized, wine eductation, wine fair, Wine Regions, wine tasting
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A quick review of Prowein 2012

Last weekend I attended Prowein in Dusseldorf. Over the past decade Prowein has developed itself into THE wine fair to attend in Europe. It attracts visitors and exhibitors from all over the world and with a lot of determination and focus you could really taste your way around the world. It is a well known

By - Caroline
Posted on January 23, 2012
Posted in Porto, terroir, wine eductation, Wine Origins, Wine Regions, Wine Review

A little Port history at the Graham’s & Sandeman’s lodge in Villa Nova de Gaia

In the run up to this Fridays’s first International #PortDay organised by the Centre for Wine Origins I would like to share the beautiful experience fellow #winelover Onneca Guelbenzu and I had visiting a few Port Lodges at the end of November. We felt very fortunate to learn more about the Port History and taste

By - Caroline
Posted on January 2, 2012
Posted in Natural Wine, terroir, wine eductation, Wine Review, wine tasting
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My report on the 2011 Natural European Wines (#new11) conference in Zurich

On November 14-15th the first Natural European Wines Conference took place in Zurich. The conference was organised by VinNatur, an Italian Organisation of Natural Wine Producers and Isabelle Legeron MW. Both VinNatur and Isabelle are committed to promoting quality natural wines. VinNatur incorporates natural wine producers in Italy, France and Slovenia, but in essence it

By - Caroline
Posted on December 22, 2011
Posted in General wine biz stuff, Porto, wine eductation, wine marketing, Wine Regions, Wine Review, wine tasting
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Lessons learned at the Adegga Wine Market 2011 (#AWM2011)

On the first of December I attended the Adegga Wine Market (#AWM2011 on twitter) in Lisbon. The Wine Market is a project of Adegga, Portugal’s largest wine review site. It started out rather small 3 years ago when the Adegga team (Andre Ribeirinho, Emidio Santos, Andre Cid) contacted 13 premium Portuguese wineries and invited them

By - Caroline
Posted on October 25, 2011October 26, 2011
Posted in EWBC, FranciaCorta, wine eductation, Wine Regions, Wine Review, wine tasting

My #EWBC introduction to Franciacorta

Last week I attended my second #EWBC (European Wine Bloggers Conference). This year the conference really went global with 35 nations being represented amongst the 216 participants. Our hosts were the consortium of Franciacorta and the venue was the beautiful Santa Guilia chapel in Brescia, Italy. I was really excited to go to Brescia and

By - Caroline
Posted on September 25, 2011September 25, 2011
Posted in terroir, wine eductation, Wine Regions, wine tasting
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Terroir

The notion of Terroir has been on my mind a lot these last few days – partly because I have been studying for the Wine Location Specialist Certificate Program from the Center of Wine Origins and partly because the first #Terroircamp was on this weekend at Toulouse.. Terroir in my opinion, encompasses the uniqueness of

By - Caroline
Posted on July 3, 2011
Posted in Californian wine trip, wine eductation, Wine Regions, Wine Review, wine tasting
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Napa Valley – part 4 of the Californian Wine Road trip

It seems a long time ago now, but the next wine region I visited on my Californian road trip was the prestigious Napa Valley. I have to admit that I did not really have much of a plan of where to go and who to visit except for my friend Lisa Augustine at Broman Cellars.

By - Caroline
Posted on May 22, 2011
Posted in social media, wine eductation, wine fair, wine tasting

A fun time at the #accesszone at the #LIWF (London International Wine Fair) 2011

On Monday I flew to London to help out on the Discovery Wines stand for my old winery Omaka Springs Estates. As always it was great to go to the fair to catch up with a lot of old and new friends, and this year THE place to me for me to find everybody was

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