Category Archives: Food

What wines to match with Food Bloggers?

This week, Rafael Vivanco of Dinastia Vivanco was in town to attend the Bibendum Annual Tasting, so I thought it would be a great opportunity for him to meet a few people outside our usual “trade” circles.
Trade lunches and dinners are extremely interesting as I get to talk to some of the most influential sommeliers [...]

Rioja for a song

Good news if you live outside of London, or a good excuse to leave for a bit (London does get the lion’s share of attention generally).
Wines from Rioja is sponsoring a campaign through regional newspapers in Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham and in Scotland. You collect tokens in these newspapers and get a chance to go out [...]

40 Bloggers and the Dinastia Vivanco experience

You’ll probably read a lot more about this event on other blogs as well, but I must say I was very excited to help to host 40 of Europe’s leading wine bloggers at Dinastia Vivanco this weekend.
Wine blogging is getting more mainstream, with more wineries, journalists, marketers and wine consumers using it as a means [...]