I’m currently sitting in the stylish Manchester Malmaison Hotel (”the Mal”) trying to stay away from the madness around the streets of Manchester today thanks to the UEFA cup final. I have never seen so many blue shirts and every voice I hear is Scottish (Rangers have made it to the final apparently).
It has been [...]
Author Archives: thirstforwine
In Manchester, but not for the football
May 14, 2008 – 1:18 pm
Positive Thinking
May 9, 2008 – 9:49 am
Maybe the power of positive thinking can keep the sun shining just a little longer, or maybe we’ve already had our summer?
[UPDATE: Thanks everyone! It worked. The sun is out and temperatures have gone up about 5 degrees]
Rioja on the (internet) radio
May 7, 2008 – 2:58 pm
Ryan from Catavino made an interesting point to me recently, something which I am sure we will be exploring in much more detail for the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference.
Blogs have the ability to present information in a range of media (written word, drawing, images, audio & video) so why is it that bloggers tend to [...]
Don’t expect this too often, but …
May 2, 2008 – 2:32 pm
I am not a deal chaser, nor do I want to dedicate this blog to finding more wine sales or discounts as I truly believe we need to find ways to get out of the UK price-driven deal culture in wine.
However, there are some retailers out there doing a good jobs of building consumer interest [...]
The future of Rioja
May 2, 2008 – 10:47 am
I was invited to a very interesting breakfast meeting the other day, organised by Wine & Spirit Magazine (the UK version) and also by Wines from Rioja in the UK.
I don’t want to spoil any surprises that David Williams and his magazine might have planned for their coverage, but I did want to point out [...]
Click to Clickair
April 25, 2008 – 6:27 pm
One of my goals on this blog is to get you excited about the possibility of visiting Rioja, not just drinking it.
Few people know where Rioja is beyond the fact that it is in Spain. Being a red wine, and partly because most of those who have visited Spain have been to the Mediterranean coast [...]
Best Wine Publisher in the World
April 22, 2008 – 10:32 am
Quite a title, but one that was recently bestowed upon the Dinastia Vivanco Foundation.
If you are not involved in the publishing business, or even if you are but not in Food & Wine publishing, then you may not have heard of the Gourmand Awards [shockingly bad site I'm afraid, but they are publishers you know!].
Every [...]
Rioja in Spring
April 21, 2008 – 3:23 pm
Here is a photo of what you can expect if you come looking for vineyards in Rioja about this time of year. Not pretty, unless you enjoy gnarly old vines, but they promise so much!
Phone a friend about wine
April 21, 2008 – 9:35 am
One of the greatest developments of the Web 2.0 age (when blogs and other interactive technologies really became established) is that information is no longer hoarded, but shared and added to. Whereas archives of great writing and research used to be hoarded in musty vaults on the slim chance someone would pay to reuse it, [...]
