How effective is wine sponsorship?
I have a personal stake in this issue. I’ve not had much time to take stock, but you may know that this blog and the producer Dinastia Vivanco supported last week’s tweetup (twitter sourced social...
View ArticleDominant Tempranillo
This week I attended The Drinks Business‘ Rioja Forum, organised in conjunction with Wines from Rioja, to discuss the motion: “Should Tempranillo remain the dominant grape?” In many ways, it wasn’t a...
View ArticleBuy better wine and win a trip to Rioja
Image by RobWinton via Flickr The Wine Gang celebrate their 1 year anniversary this month. If you are not familiar of The Wine Gang (TWG), it is 5 of the UK’s most influential wine writers and...
View ArticleDocumentary about Dinastia Vivanco in the works
Our friend Zev Robinson came to visit Dinastia Vivanco at the end of the 2009 vintage to talk about his films (such as the very popular La Bobal film) and he liked it so much he stayed for 5 days to...
View ArticleThe sights of the Rioja Alavesa wine route
I have just been pointed to a video promoting the Rioja Alavesa wine route. On the whole the images are interesting, but I feel they got the music BADLY wrong. I also think they got the balance of...
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