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Enchanting Porto Hotel Gets Thumbs Up From Wine Pleasures

Last week, Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th March, our General Manager, Anthony Swift visited a rainy Porto on a site inspection programme for the 3rd annual edition of the Wine Pleausres International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop scheduled for the 31st January until the 3rd of February 2011.
The main purpose of the visit was to [...]

Porto to Host 2011 Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop

Wine Pleasures is pleased to announce that the 3rd annual edition of the Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference and Workshop will be held from 31st January – 3rd February 2011 in Porto, Portugal.
This year’s Conference & Workshop saw over 200 wine tourism professionals from around the world descend on the little know Catalan village [...]

Wine Pleasures Workshop: Buyer meets Italian Cellar 2010

Having just finished a very successful edition of the 1st ever Buyer meets Iberian Cellar, the Wine Pleasures team is starting to make preparations for the 2nd edition of the Buyer meets Italian Cellar to be held in the Park Hotel Villa Fiorita, Monastier di Treviso (VENETO) from 23 – 25 May 2010.
The [...]

Coming Up Wine Pleasures Workshop Buyer Meets IBERIAN Cellar

With the 2nd annual edition of the Wine Pleasures International Conference and Workshop just finished, the team at Wine Pleasures is now preparing for the Wine Pleasures Workshop Buyer meets IBERIAN Cellar (10-12 February 2010). Formally, restricted to just Spanish wineries this year we are pleased to welcome many Portuguese producers travelling to Barcelona for [...]

Live Blogging Plenary session by Rainer Brusis (Innova Management)

Grape Escape Destinations in Spain.
Grape Escape Destinations in Spain
The aim of this conference is to present some of the main wine tourism destinations in Spain. The presentation will focus particularly on some of the leading wine tourism destinations in Spain and how wine tourism has evolved in recent years in the following wine regions: La [...]

Live Blogging Plenary session by João Falcão (VINITUR)

Grape Escape Destinations in Portugal.
Grape Escape Destinations in Portugal
Portugal is a largely undiscovered treasure-trove for wine & food lovers: 35 winemaking regions and 11 wine routes, from North to South, the oldest demarcated and controlled winemaking region in the world, and the Douro Winemaking Region, home of Port Wine since 1756. It encompasses an admirable [...]

Live Blogging Plenary session by John Callely (CEO Jameson Distillery Tours)

Jameson Distillery Tours! How our Visitor Center Has Grown Our Whiskey Sales.
How our Visitor Centre has grown our Whiskey Sales. Are you open for visits?
In 1984 Jameson opened its first visitor centre called “The Irish Whiskey Corner” in a former Jameson warehouse. Within a short number of years capacity reached saturation level at 46000 [...]

Live Blogging: Interesting Web 2.0 tools and Community Manager Skills for a Tourism Board

Interesting Web 2.0 Tools and Community Manager Skills for Tourism.
Speaker: Daniel García Peris (Subirats Tourism Office)
Twitter, Facebook, Blog… There’s a new era in communication of tourist activities at the web. A Tourist Board must manage all these applications to create community with their visitors. Presence on the net and use of Web 2.0 makes it [...]

Live Blogging Whiskey Tasting with John Callely, Jameson Distillery Tours

Whiskey Tasting With Jameson Distillery Tours!
Whiskey tasting evening with John Callely of Jameson Distillery Tours,
Dublin, Ireland. This will consist of Jameson (standard) Irish Whiskey,
Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch and Jack Daniels Bourbon. John will talk
the group through the smell and taste differences between the categories and outline briefly the distilling process.

Live Blogging Wines from Bulgaria

Bulgarian Wine Tasting. Join us with questions and comments!
Bulgarian wine tasting evening with Juan Manuel Gonzalvo (Sommelier)
and Nedko Nedev (Vinos de Bulgaria).
Bulgaria is producing about 70% red wines, 25% white wines and 5% fortified
and sparkling wine. Over 80% of the wine production is exported nowadays
to over 70 countries spread worldwide. Bulgarian wines are winning medals
and [...]

Live Blogging: Get Media Savvy with Joy Neighbors

Get Media Savvy and Get Known! Speaker Joy Neighbours.

Live Blogging: Round Table – What is a Blog and Why Should a Winery Have One?

Round table, what is a blog and why should a winery have one? Give us your thoughts!!
Moderator: Albert Moreno (FeedbackMP)
Panel: Barbara Siemianiuk (Caves Montau de Sadurní), Ana Belén Hernández Soto (Vintae Luxury Wine Specialists), Marcel Sabaté i Coca (Cavas Castellroig)

Live Blogging: Wine Tourism in Hungary Marianna Pósfai (Wine Time Hungary)

Wine Tourism in Hungry! Speaker: Marianna Posfai. TUNE IN !
Have you ever heard about Kadarka, Juhfark or Királyleányka? These tongue-twisting names referring to grapes which are exclusively grown in Hungary. Wine production is reviving in Hungary and more and more quality, family wineries welcome wine lovers from all over the world. Wine Time Hungary offers [...]

Live Streaming Celebrity Wine Review TV – Leveraging social media to engage online audiences and share our passion for wine.

Celebrity Wine TV on Using Social Media to Engage Online Audiences LIVE!
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Garnacha Wine Tasting DO Terra Alta

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