For this coming week only, Selfridges’ up-market and comfortable Wonder Bar in Oxford Street, London is offering a great deal with 25ml tastes of a range of 52 Decanter Trophy winning wines. At the launch I enjoyed sips of a Castillo de Molina Sauvignon from Elqui, Chile; Wild Earth Pinot Noir from Central Otago, New… View more
Happy New Year to readers of this blog and visitors to Wine Travel Guides! Not a good start to the year: the French courts have ruled against the newspaper Le Parisien for failing to display the standard alcohol warning “L’abus d’alcool est dangereux pour la santé : consommez avec modération” (“Abuse of alcohol is dangerous:… View more
Showing off Wine Travel Guides at The Wine Show in London was interesting. Of course, the stand didn’t appeal to everyone as it was dry! We wondered whether to offer wine from one of the recommended producers in the Guides, but then decided it would defeat the object, as visitors would be tasting the wine… View more
Very belated posting … no broadband for 2 weeks (UK readers: don’t ever sign-up with Tiscali, I won’t even start the rant here …). Exciting news: www.winetravelguides.com has taken a stand at The Wine Show at the Islington Business Design Centre in London. This consumer wine show takes place from this Thursday 25th – Sunday… View more
Here is my Uruguayan pin-up – wine producer Reinaldo de Lucca, maker of some intense Tannats, and exciting Marsanne and Syrah – a Francophile, a womanizer of the kindest sort, and an all-round lovely, generous man. The comprehensive wine information website, Wine Pages has published my in-depth article on the wines of Uruguay, which I… View more
Late June and July were busy – no excuse for not writing my blog, though! Lots of press releases sent out about www.winetravelguides.com resulting in some articles – including The Yorkshire Post and The Wharf (Canary Wharf’s free newspaper) in the UK, the Irish Times and an Israeli website – read all about Wine Travel… View more
Whilst I’ve been swanning around doing other things and getting ever-more-behind on tidying up my office and more importantly, figuring out how to do PR to the world’s travel media, I’ve had a couple of good write-ups.Firstly, from Calgary in Canada – check this blog:http://communities.canada.com/calgaryherald/blogs/uncorked/archive/2007/06/04/new-wine-travel-website.aspxAnd then, UK-based Wine & Spirit Magazine gave me a good… View more
Introductory Offer for Subscriptions on www.winetravelguides.comEnter the code D1BLG07 into the box on the ‘Subscribe’ Page and click “Apply Promotion”You will then receive a discounted subscription of:£6.50 Bronze (instead of £7.50)£17 Silver (instead of £19.50)£39 Gold (instead of £49)That’s about 20% off Gold, somewhat less off the other subscriptions. You have 90 days …What are… View more
It’s been exciting moving from the production process to the process of spreading the word.Having got on line in time for the Wine Trade Fair, I sent a press release out to various contacts including some of the members of the Circle of Wine Writers.Within 48 hours, I was written up on a well-known UK-based… View more
Well, I was having a delicious lunch at Limani (Greek Restaurant) in Primrose Hill with a very old friend when I got the news from my web designer:“She lives!”I don’t have kids, and no disrespect to women who have been through the real thing, but for me, it’s as if I’ve given birth.Now I just… View more
