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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Travel blogs and Rioja

Image by RobWinton via Flickr

I’m starting to come across more and more travel blogs writing about visits to La Rioja.
This is a great sign that this lovely region is finally making waves in a more international travel arena. So far international visitors to the region are relatively small, especially compared to some other well known [...]