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European Wine Bloggers Conference – Part 2

October 31, 2009

Our first day of conference ended last night with a grand buffet and the pouring of the wines of the Douro Boys. But before we were rewarded by such a feast, we had to work hard through two tastings. Both tastings were a real initiation to Spanish and Portuguese wines. Esteban Cabezas, Marketing Director of [...]

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European Wine Bloggers Conference – Day 1

October 30, 2009

I just arrived at the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Lisbon. The conference started yesterday with the live tasting of Cortes de Cima and I’m really sorry I missed the experience. But the fun began as soon as I stepped in the beautiful VIP Grand Hotel in Lisbon (5* – nothing less). I met Gabriella [...]

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A creative wine cellar management system

October 26, 2009

From time to time I love to venture in innovative systems created in the “real” world instead of my beloved Web 2.0 world. I was caught up in reading a web site on a very creative wine cellar management system – we could even call it exclusive because I think there are only 2000 devices [...]

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Meet Doug Cook at EWBC

October 15, 2009

Doug Cook is the founder of ablegrape.com and head of Twitter Search. EWBC is the European Wine Blogger Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, from Oct 30th to Nov 1st, 2009. Ablegrape.com is the wine search engine I already raved about on this blog. I will spare you an other post on the subject. But if [...]

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Wine and Health in South Africa

October 13, 2009

2009 is the 350th anniversary of South African wine production. South Africa is now a wine producing country largely recognized in many parts of the world – at the sad exception of a few European countries. France is one of them but fortunately, every two years, a charity auction reminds French wine lovers that South [...]

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Can we talk about wine like we talk about food?

October 5, 2009

This question asked by wine and travel writer Salma Abdelnour in a very witty article made me smile at first. Wine was part of food for several centuries in Europe. Then my American culture kicked in and reminded me wine is not food anymore – especially not in Europe – and is just a pleasure. [...]

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A Wine Channel in France

October 2, 2009

For any other country having a TV channel devoted to wine is… no big deal. In France it requires to go through a major administrative work. Why is that? First of all, because wine is now considered as a very dangerous drink leading to alcoholism and major health problems. Second, because the French law require [...]

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A woman’s smile on a wine label

September 30, 2009

This is the very unusual sight I came across today. At first the title of the article read: “Wine for women”. I got mildly annoyed and was about to move away when a sentence caught my eye: “Every smile has a story. And many stories are shared over a glass of wine”. Banal? Yes, but [...]

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Google or Ablegrape.com?

September 25, 2009

When it comes to finding information on wine on the Net, is it better to google or ablegrape? This morning I made a very simple test. I “googled” a few wine brands or names and then checked comparatively on ablegrape.com. Guess what? I had more pertinent answers through ablegrape.com. Let’s take one example. Clarendelle is [...]

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Vintank, the Digital Think Tank in the Wine Business

September 21, 2009

In the pre-Internet days, think tanks could be impressive by the secrecy surrounding their members, their goals and their means of action. Today, in the (almost) full bloom of the Web 2.0, think tanks should be leading the way to the Web 3.0. And some do. Who didn’t hear of VinTank‘s Social Media Report? It [...]

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