by winepleasures | Sep 11, 2010 | Wine Workshops, Wine Tours
Wesley Kollar and Jennifer Guran of Speciality Cellars based in Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles in sunny California along with 30 or so international wine importers from around the world will be descending upon Catalunya for the very first edition of the Workshop Buyer...
by winepleasures | Sep 6, 2010 | Wine Conference, Wine Tours
In January 2010, we wrote about how Celebrity Wine Review TV is engaging audiences to share their passion for wine. The online wine review show worked with Wine Pleasures last year during the 2nd edition of the International Wine Tourism Conferenceand during their...
by winepleasures | Sep 1, 2010 | Wine Tours
Familiarization Trips (Fam Trips, for short) for Tour Operators and Travel Agents are common practice for the travel industry. For the tourism provider it is probably by far the most cost-effective marketing tool they can invest in to gain greater market share and...
by winepleasures | Aug 29, 2010 | Wine Tours, Wine Conference
For those of you who remember and are fans of the 70s rock group Led Zeppelin are sure to remember one of their most loved songs: Stairway to Heaven”? Well did you know that the Stairway to Heaven actually exists? It’s is to be found n the heart of...
by winepleasures | Aug 27, 2010 | Wine Tours, Wine Conference
Hopping into a Toyota four by four run by Cornudella Turistic we bounced our way down the narrow dirt path leading up to the Siurana nature reserve. A quick stop to open the park gate – made possible by our driver’s connections to a park ranger that had...
by winepleasures | Aug 25, 2010 | Wine Workshops, Wine Tours
Some 95% of Spain’s answer to Champagne is produced in Catalunya under the Appellation of Cava. The industry is dominated by the two mass producers Freixenet and Codorniu whose acrimonious rivalry has at times acted as a brake on Cava’s progress rather than a spur to...