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Twitter.com just is launching a new wine brand, Fledgling, to promote literacy in the world. Out of the $25 paid by the consumer, $5 will go to Room to Read, a non-profit group dedicated to raising literacy levels in developing countries. An other innovative company was brought in this effort: the winemaking team of Crushpad [...]

Pernod-Ricard went through major organizational changes in the last week: they launched a new brand company called Premium Wine Brands. Under this umbrella brand, consumers will find some of the group’s major wine brands: Australian wines (Jacob’s Creek), New Zealand wines (Montana and Brancott), Spanish and Argentinean wine brands with international potential (Campo Viejo and [...]

The European Wine Bloggers Conference is back for the third time. We’ll gather in Vienna, Austria with a great program and 150 attendees to talk about “Freedom, Rights and Responsibilities”, or “Webinar and Web Communications”, “Creative Commons”, “Online Wine Commerce”,  “Publishing Platforms” and “Generics Reaching Out.” I’ll be part of the panel on “Online Wine [...]

During the Symposium of Masters of Wine in Bordeaux last June, the first panel was on “Wine on the Web”. The moderator was Christophe Macra, one of the four French MW. Christophe invited four prestigious panelists to talk about Wine and Web: Jancis Robinson, Rowan Gormley, founder and CEO of NakedWines.com, Eric LeVine, founder and [...]