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 [...]
Category Archives: Information
Rioja on the (internet) radio
The future of Rioja
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 [...]
Best Wine Publisher in the World
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 [...]
Phone a friend about wine
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, [...]
I have a Thirst for Rioja, I hope you do too
Welcome to my new blog all about Rioja - Thirst for Rioja. It is about wine, travel, food, tourism, history, geography, and anything else that comes up.
I work for a number of wineries in Rioja, all producing amazing wines, but I will not be bombarding you with sales information (I promise) but I do look [...]