by winepleasures | Mar 4, 2011 | Wine Workshops
The 2011 Wine Pleasures Workshops Buyer meets Iberian Cellar and the International Organic Workshop closed last week, following a great week of business, meetings and networking. This year’s 7th Wine Pleasures attracted more than 60 wineries represented on 41 workshop...
by winepleasures | Mar 3, 2011 | Wine Workshops
During the 2011 edition of the Wine Pleasures Workshop “Buyer Meets Iberian Cellar”, we had the opportunity to talk with Igor Igumov-Graalmann who is the Export Director for San Prudencia Winery in La Rioja, Spain. We asked him about his background and the winery and...
by winepleasures | Mar 2, 2011 | Wine Workshops
Clos Pons, a winery is located in Les Garrigues district (Lleida) is set in a landscape dominated by olive and almond trees and distinguished by its dry and arid terroir. A group of wine importers were taken to the Pons estate as part of the Wine Pleasures Reverse...
by winepleasures | Mar 1, 2011 | Wine Workshops
Matthew Naranjo is the CEO of Terrior Wine Imports in Toronto, Canada. He is attending the 2011 Wine Pleasures “Buyer Meets Iberian Cellar” Workshop in Barcelona with the goal of gaining representation of three new wineries, preferably Spanish. We talked with...
by winepleasures | Feb 28, 2011 | Wine Workshops
Brothers François and Louis-Adrien Delhon represent Domaine Bassac at the 2011 Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop in Barcelona. Domaine Bassac is located In Puisalicon, a small medieval village of the Languedoc in the south of France. We asked François...
by winepleasures | Feb 26, 2011 | Wine Workshops
It was a dark and stormy night…no really. It was a stormy night in December 1999 that convinced Jean-Luc and Catherine Hubert to convert their two vineyards to organic and to use biodynamic methods. The storm had winds up to 200 km/hr, uprooted many trees and even...