Back in February, we sent, and posted, an open letter to all wine bloggers sharing information on the plans for the first European Wine Bloggers Conference. Now, we’d like to share this most recent email with you in case you are thinking of attending the conference.
Dear friend,
With almost 40 wine bloggers already having expressed an [...]

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We have always intended this inaugural European Wine Bloggers’ Conference to be different, setting a new standard for conferences, particularly in the wine world.
When we thought about how we would discuss the key issues, we had to find a way to allow as much interaction as possible, yet give all those who wanted it a [...]

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The good news just keeps rolling into the EWBC headquarters. Right off the press, Wines of Spain has recently published an article on the conference, emphasizing our common desire to not only learn how to better collaborate, but also gain the respect and the attention of the wine trade. What makes this news so fantastic [...]

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One of the things we hope to do with the conference is to get to know each other better. There are a lot of wine bloggers out there with very different backgrounds, expertise and interests and by learning more about other bloggers we hope to find more areas of common interest, beyond wine of course, [...]

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We’re back! Although we’ve been a little quiet for awhile, it’s only because we’ve been trying our best to find a good strategy to attract further financial donors. To make this conference as useful as we can for an extremely reasonable price, we’ve been working hard to find companies who are willing to give us [...]

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Just back, and not yet recovered from, Alimentaria. That show is massive and has some planning issues to deal with (ones which our little event won’t have to deal with) regarding signage, transport and the general helpfulness of staff. But enough of that. Onwards and upwards!
One of the things Ryan and I did at the [...]

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This week Ryan, Gabriella and I will all be at Alimentaria in Barcelona for Spain’s biggest Food & Wine show. If you are there too and fancy meeting up, drop us a note on our respective blogs (Catavino & The Wine Conversation) or leave a note here and we can try and arrange it.
I suspect [...]

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Here is our first attempt to bring together a plan that will allow us all time to talk about wine blogging, but also time to do what we love - taste wine!
This is a first draft specifically designed to encourage you to give us feedback and ideas for developing it further. More details on each [...]

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Thank you VERY much for those of you who have taken the time to get in touch and commit to the conference at such an early stage. At this point the door is still open to join or leave depending on your other commitments, but we are very heartened by the positive response to the [...]

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This letter has recently been sent to wine bloggers on facebook, but could equally be relevant to other wine bloggers who do not use facebook (and we can certainly see why).
“Dear Fellow Wine Blogger,
As a member of the 200+ strong Wine Bloggers group on facebook, we are writing to you to get your advice and [...]

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