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Dinastia Vivanco is Winery of the Year for Verema.com readers

A Press Release issued this week has an exciting bit of news worth sharing here as well:
“Dinastia Vivanco was named joint “Winery of the Year” after a popular vote by the 25,000 members of Verema, the leading Spanish language site for wine and food lovers around the world. Dinastia Vivanco was recognised for the work [...]

Wine Celebrity Spotting at Wine Culture Dinner

Following the last post about the idea of a possible documentary about Dinastia Vivanco, we were also privileged to host some of the world’s top wine industry personalities while they attended the Wine Future Conference in Rioja in November 2009.
Dinastia Vivanco hosted over 150 guests from the conference, including speakers, organisers, delegates and exhibitors to [...]

Documentary 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 film interviews, the winery, the museum and some of our visitors and the vineyards.
He [...]

Rioja and National Geographic

If you are quick, and I mean really quick, you can still catch a free tasting of Rioja wine AND Rioja food (in the form of some lovely tapas from the in-house expert) at the National Geographic store on Regents Street.
For this week only the Rioja Government (not Rioja wines alone this time) is sponsoring [...]

The Museum of the Culture of Wine opens the Vivanco Reserve

This is the text of a press release that went out recently which I thought might be interesting to those who like Rioja and art.
There is much made of the connection of wine and art, with artists all over the world creating pieces that inspire them, but rarely are the very biggest names in art [...]