spittoonextra (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
While these three photos were taken at the excellent Quinta do Mouro Estate. They are not really wine related to feature on Spittoon so 'relegated' down to SpittyExtra. The first is the lock to the barrel cellar, the second a chair in the corner of the tasting room (which I so longed to plonk my fat arse in but was petrified of dozing off) while the third photo is an external view of the wine making...
spittoonextra (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Finally getting round to sorting out the photographs taken of Lisbon, of the European Wine Bloggers Conference and the associated vineyard trips... The Lisbon apartment was just a short walk from Santa Apolonia station; up a couple of hills obviously, this being Lisbon, right in the heart of the old-town Alfama . Time pressures precluded any great exploration sadly, we didn't make it to the Bairro...
Intoxicating Prose (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
UNLIKE the majority of summits and symposiums, Bacchus’ ferment was a constant bedfellow at the European Wine Bloggers Conference. Held at the ‘VIP’ Grand Lisboa, an angular, orange pen for drab suits, with pebbly feng shui bits and a bar menu boasting ‘bee fillet’ (the sting was in the price) I hope our conference room made other guests jealous. Pallets of crystal glasses...
spittoonextra (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I've been to Portugal - for the Wine Bloggers Conference in Lisbon. The Conference weekend was excellent and I managed to taste more Portuguese wines than I'll ever have time to write up. Some were good, excellent in fact, others were not. Really not. The fun part though was getting to Lisbon in the first place. No cheapie EasyJet from Luton option for us (I travelled with DougieBoy who has written...
The Wine Conversation (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I’ve only just returned from the European Wine Bloggers Conference (EWBC) in Lisbon, but instead of collecting my thoughts and writing them up, I was straight into the next project which was to be the voice in social media of The Wine Gang at their first wine tasting. The Wine Gang (Olly Smith, Tim Atkin, Joanna [...]
Hollow Legs (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
You may have gathered from my last post that I spent a long weekend in Lisbon, for 2009's European Wine Bloggers' Conference . I'm not a wine blogger, nor have I done many posts on wine. I write about what I know, and as I don't know a lot about wine, I've never been very confident in writing about it. I am aiming to change this and this weekend was a step in the right direction. On the first night,...
The Wine Conversation (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It is too early to really be able to take it all in, but I am back from Lisbon and the European Wine Bloggers Conference (EWBC) 2009. The conference this year was about 3 times the size of last year’s event, with around 120 bloggers and a great number of producers and other wine businesses there [...]
Food Stories (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I’ve just been to Portugal for The European Wine Bloggers Conference. Obviously this is a food blog, but I’ve been making an effort in recent months to really get stuck into the rather daunting task of learning more about wine. I drink enough of the stuff, yet always seem to have a problem retaining information [...]
Word of Mouth (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
What do you think about buffets? Egalitarian and easy or heat lamp horrors? The annual European Wine Bloggers' Conference just finished in Lisbon: a long weekend of producers, delegates and groupies swilling and tweeting and chattering in a 2.0 vini-fest. And while a jovial, punishingly alcoholic time was had by all, the experience prompted me to consider one thing in particular - buffets. I experienced...
Hollow Legs (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Before I launch into any booze-drenched posts of the European Wine Bloggers Conference , held in Lisbon last weekend, I wanted to get this out there. This is the first place, reportedly, to sell Pastéis de Nata; Portugese custard tarts. These tarts are believed to be created by the monks of Mosteiro dos Jerónimo, a monastery in Belém, before the 18th Century. I was almost loathe...
Quevedo (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
During the last weekend it took place in Lisbon the second edition of the European Wine Bloggers Conference. As it had happened last year, I had a lot of fun, I met bunches of new people and drunk many many Portuguese wines. Later this week I’ll make another post with my thoughts about the the [...]
Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Crashed in Lisbon today ~ Too Much of a Good Thing. I’m sitting in the lobby of the VIP Grand Hotel, checked out and waiting for everyone to return from the bus trips that I passed on. When they do return, Gwendolyn Alley and Iwill be heading to Evora this evening, for the next leg [...]
Wine Brands (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Saturday Oct. 31st was THE day of the EWBC conference . We actually worked hard going from one session to an other one, getting in touch with each other and working on important topics: what is a social wine brand? What is the impact of the social media on wine travel ? How can wineries answer the challenging issues brought by social media? What kind of relationship can wineries and wine bloggers...
jamie goode's wine blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Sad to be missing the second European Wine Bloggers Conference which is taking place in Lisbon this weekend. But as an old-time wine blogger (indeed, I think the original wineanorak blog was the first wine blog in Europe), and as an opinionated git, I think I'd have plenty to say, along these lines: 1. Authenticity is everything. You have to be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...
Wine Pictures from BKWine (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Well, maybe you guessed, in Lisbon for the European Wine Bloggers Conference (#EWBC) in Lisbon. And this is some background for today's session on monetisation of blogging and wine writing on the internet.
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