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• inserito il 03.22.2012 alle 08:53:26

  Parawa Estate Ingalalla Grand Reserve 2007

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  • vinitaly,  vinitaly 2012,  verona,  south australia,  flerieu peninsula,  italian chamber of commerce and industry melbourne,  winestate,  parawa estate classic range eden,  bordeaux style,  dea elmi,  wine,  red wine,  peter jackson,  luca bottallo

  One of the wines that I will be lucky enough to taste at Vinitaly will be Parawa Estate Ingalalla Grand Reserve. Until now I was referring to it as the mystery wine as my friend Peter Jackson wouldn't tell me what it was, all he'd say was that he was bringing one of the most exclusive and expensive wines made in Australia. The release price is $1200 it will probably retail for around $2500. Another mystery... this winery their website is under construction and there is literally zero information about them on line. The information I have about the wine are from Winestate and that's it. So a mystery a real mystery. The winery says that this wine is made in a French style  with Australian character ~ The Parawa Estate Ingalalla is a wine produced from...

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• inserito il 02.29.2012 alle 22:11:28

  Profile of a Young Sicilian winemaker - Antonio Barraco

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  • wine,  italy,  sicily,  marsala,  provincia di trapani,  catarratto,  zibibbo,  western sicily,  travel,  tradition,  terroir

  Antonio Barraco one of only of 2 natural wine producers in the Marsala western Sicily area. (The other is Renato De Bartoli of Marco De Bartoli winery. ) I met Antonio at Ristorante Coria at a natural wine dinner where he and Ms. Arianna Occhipinti were the featured guests. Their wines were served along with brillantly cooked food by 2 young Sicilian chefs. This dinner took place on Friday February 3rd 2012 in the beautiful baroque town of Caltagirone Sicily. Antonio makes beautiful, pure, clean wines that capture this terroir as no one else does. I love his Catarratto and his Zibibbo. Macereated for a long time on the grape skins these are punchy muscular whites. The aromatics are big, waxy citrus, white flowers, grapefruit peel, almonds, marzipan, cakebatter, brioche, mineral...

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• inserito il 01.11.2012 alle 09:57:28

  Wine...it's what's for dinner

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  • wine,  education,  culture,  gastronomy,  health,  history,  old world,  italy,  sardinia,  portugal,  australia,  shiraz,  civilization

  Blame it on the  Romans if you want they used the strategy of planting vines as a way of expressing domination over conquered territories. That is how grapes got around the world, starting off in this very same mediterrenean basin I live in still today. Wine tastes better than beer, and it's classier. Beer is to wine a pre schooler's scribble compared to a masterpiece by say Raffaello. Yes I am biased. There are good beers yes, but hands down wine is more varied, can be paired more easily to foods and well it's sexier. No bloating, no burping or any of those best if avoided moments so closely tied to swilling beer. Even the good kind. Here is a list of some of the benefits and advantages wine has over beer: 1. Value You get what you pay for....

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• inserito il 12.24.2011 alle 11:00:42

  Trentino and France in Sicily

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  • spumante,  trentodoc,  letrari,  pojer e sandri,  talento,  italy,  trentino,  e commerce,  panettone,  exquisita,  artisanal,  handcrafted,  gourmet

  So another holiday season is upon us. I had surgery on December 9th, a complete reconstruciton of my ACL in my left knee and partial meniscus reconstruction. Needless to say I won't be cooking much. simple and easy things that don't require much walking or standing.  I started physical therapy this week, I am doing well but I tire easily. This year I wanted Christmas to be really special as it will probably be my last in Italy for a while. I am moving back to Texas in April. So far I have been going back and forth. One of my sisters lives in Texas and I stay at her place when I go. The time has come to change. The economy, social restrictions and a (percieved) lack of amenties in Italy is what has influenced me to move back to the US. We planned the menu...

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• inserito il 05.05.2011 alle 19:15:18

  Content curation done the right way The wine family at Gut Oggau

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  • gut oggau,  charlieban,  levinparfait,  wine style 30,  austria,  winery,  europe,  content curation

  My friend Charlieban sent me this link: http://www.gutoggau.com Check out this FANTASTIC website of an Austrian winery. If you have time check out the video it is stunning. No words, just images, music and flow. Good stuff. Dea (who has been absent from these pages lately as I am drowning in work) - a good thing. :)

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• inserito il 04.14.2011 alle 10:24:24

  Vinitaly 2011 - Some Notes

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  • italy,  wine,  trentino,  sicilia,  trentodoc,  talento,  letrari,  levinparfait,  colomba bianca,  trapani,  dolomites,  tradition,  artisanal production,  boutique wines,  ellen kirsh,  wines of italy,  italian chamber of commerce and industry melbourne,  alex clifford,  peter jackson,  winestate magazine,  casa del vino,  vallagarina,  mart

  I got back Tuesday evening April 12 from my 5 days at Vinitaly 2011 and what can I say...it was a life changing experience. So much craftsmanship, love, dedication and passion. I was blown away and STUNNED by all the hard work, sacrifice and beauty of nearly everything that surrounded me. I must admit I spent most of my time in the Trentino and Sicilia pavillions those are the areas my business is focused on. I live in Siclia and but have friends in Trentino - Rovereto Mezzolombardo, Mezzacorona, Cembra, Lorni di Savis and Faedo. Still I visited, tasted, spoke with producers in the Veneto and Piedmont pavillions. I had the honor to meet Ellen Kirsch a wine journalist and educator who has some awesome plans in the future for Italian wineres. It was great to see new found friends...

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• inserito il 03.26.2011 alle 00:06:23

  Social Media Marketing Vinixlab seminar at San Michele Agricultural College

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  • san michele al adige,  trentino,  donne del vino,  italy,  wine,  smm,  networking

  I spent the last 2 days in a town nestled in the Alps in a region called Trentino. I participated in a seminar regarding Social Media Marketing  In the end it turned out to be mostly about internet marketing. The speakers spent a lot of time talking about minutia related to banner adds, ppc, and what not. It was still extremely useful as in my work I work against this so listening in great detail about how this business worked was helpful becuase it helps me with being able to respond to queries and objections. Now I can speak quite comfortably about why writing thoughtful blogs, tweeting appropriately and responding to comments on FB and writing notes, and loading images and videos is so much more powerful and effective than Internet Marketing. I met some amazing folks....

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• inserito il 02.18.2011 alle 11:33:05

  Wine and Social Media by Lift9 via Warren Sukernek

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  • wine,  social media,  impact,  us,  california,  twitter,  facebook,  customers,  branding,  generating interest,  dialogue

  http://www.slideshare.net/warrenss/lift9-wine-and-social-media

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• inserito il 01.20.2011 alle 16:28:46

  Social Media Gains as Wine Marketing Tools

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  • wine,  social media,  international wine,  wine marketing,  wine trends,  south african wines,  hein koegelenberg,  vinix,  internet

  Social Media Gains as Wine Marketing Tool Many vintners in the South African wine industry are using social media tools to communicate with existing and prospective consumers. This is a global trend driven not only by the rise in social media but also by wine brands needing to find more cost-effective ways to market themselves. I came across this research by the University of California on the salewine.co.za blog, from which I quote: “More than 80% of 109 grape growers, distributors, retailers and other wine experts in the California who were questioned in a survey by the Wine Industry Financial Symposium Group and the University of California-Davis Graduate School of Management said they were using Facebook in their business, up from 46% in 2009. “64% were...

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• inserito il 12.22.2010 alle 15:02:42

  Home is where the heart is

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  • vinix,  wine,  primo sale,  tuma,  caseificio,  sicily,  italy,  specialty foods,  vino,  marsala,  social media,  italia,  holidays,  christmas,  us,  washington,  dc,  austin,  texas

  So excited! In less than 72 hours I fly home. I will be in DC and Austin Texas from December 25 to January 15th, this is awesome! I get to hang out with family, visit all my favourite places with my dear husband Enrico. I will be trying out new restaurants, bookshops, cafès. I will be feasting on some awesome sushi and some Tex Mex cuisine... I would KILL for a chile relleno right about now. Also I am taking some wines to the US that a friend of mine makes here, putting them in the hands of a distributor acquaintance and taking some olive oil, saline di trapani salt and some tuma stagionata from a local caseificio. I am thrilled to bits about this and can't wait to tell my friends, contacts and family about all the exciting things happening in Italy with regards to...

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