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Every wine producing country has their collection of celebrated grapes that create the unique foundation of their market, but very few have a dazzling 1200 to choose from. Even Portugal, that has garned a reputation for its 400+ native varieties, cannot compete with Turkey’s breadth and diversity of indigenous grapes. Granted, only 60 of [...]

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One of the EWBC’s longest standing supporters (and we use “standing” advisedly), Alastair Bathgate (aka @tiptoptaps), posted an interesting question yesterday, addressing an important issue, the name of the event. We thought it deserved a fuller response to the one already posted in answer to Wink Lorch on Facebook, so here [...]

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Sunday Trips and Saturday Workshops

On September 19, 2011 By

We’re excited to announce that the Sunday trips are all confirmed, and that we have two limited space workshops on Saturday morning. Please follow the links below to learn more about both.

Please remember that the Sunday trips are limited and your decision is final. We cannot change your choice afterwards, so please choose wisely! [...]

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Hope this excites you for next year!

European Wine Bloggers Conference 2010 Wrap up from European Wine Bloggers on Vimeo.

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Vienna, We Meet at Last

On March 11, 2010 By

Next week, Monday 15th to Wednesday 17th, Gabriella, Ryan & Robert are heading for Vienna.

Our main task is to decide on a conference venue for EWBC 2010. So much of the rest of our organisation depends on sorting out this detail that we are making it our top priority. Vienna is full of [...]

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Get Your Wine Story Amplified

On November 26, 2009 By

It was tough having to be back on duty at the Wine Future conference just over a week after the end of the EWBC. Consequently, we have been unable to write up our post-conference observations in a timely manner. But on the flipside, the lag time has allowed us to continue developing [...]

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Goodbye Lisbon, it was fun!

On November 3, 2009 By

Wow! That was … intense!

We are all just getting home after a most amazing, fun packed, information rich and simply breathtakingly exciting weekend of wine, discussion sessions, networking trips and tastings. What more could anyone wish for?

120 or so bloggers from all over the globe in one hotel, in the beautiful city of [...]

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For those of you who were not able to join us last year in La Rioja, Spain, at the very first Wine Blogger Conference in the world, we felt it might be interesting for you to at least get a sense of who was there, some of the debates that were had, and what [...]

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