Category Archives: Foundation

Buy better wine and win a trip to Rioja

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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 communicators – Tim Atkin, Olly Smith, Tom Cannavan, Joanna Simon & Anthony Rose, who collaborate to put together a monthly newsletter [...]

Still waiting for my little starling

I apologise to the lovely people who sent me a message about getting hold of a copy of Saturnino Starling in the Land of Wine.
I have two copies of the book here already to give away, but I am going to hold off announcing the winners until I have a bit more news for everyone [...]

Wine Culture for Children

I am excited to say that a book published by the Dinastia Vivanco Foundation has won an award for Best Illustrated Wine Publication from the Gourmand Book Awards. The book is “El Estornino Saturnino En La Tierra del Vino” (or “Saturnino Starling in the Land of Wine”). You can read an article on Decanter.com about [...]

Obligatory festive post

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Hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and I wish everyone a great Hogmanay
I thought I’d get at least one brief post in over the holidays.
I first need to congratulate Caroline, of Caroline’s Miscellany, for winning the case of 6 bottles of Dinastia Vivanco Crianza to help make a great vinous start to [...]

Wine Culture gets its own Virtual Library

One of the wonderful things about working wth the family who established Dinastia Vivanco is that there is no such thing as a ‘normal’ day. One day I’m off tasting wines with folks (like I did recently for the nice people of the Stroud Wine Society, and a wonderful lunch at Carden Park with Cheshire [...]