Tag Archives: Wine

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 [...]

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 [...]

Buy better wine and win a trip to Rioja

Image by RobWinton via Flickr

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 [...]