I sat through a fab night looking at the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (AIS) final – the world best sommelier final at youtube. I must say I loved it – then again I am a wine nerd and not a normal wine consumer. The #winelover community wants to gives our warmest congratulations to Arvid Rosengren, Sweden’s second world champion… Read more →
I was searching the net for my presentation about Italian wines at the Duxbury Food & Wine Festival on Saturday.. and look what I found! The video of my interview after I became an Italian Wine Ambassador… pretty #cool! 🙂 Cheers!! Luiz Alberto, >>> Founder of the #winelover community >>> MW candidate >>> Member of the Circle of Wine… Read more →
We will be celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the #winelover community in Portugal this year. The program will start on Wednesday 11th February (people can arrive during the day – morning is preferential!) and end on Sunday 15th after lunch. (more details coming soon). Be there! It will be #epic! Cheers! Your hosts, Ana Sofia de Oliveira Celma Carreira Andre… Read more →
#winelover for #SaveLugana #saveLugana – sign the petition here! The #winelover community are #Luganalover-s – are you? The#winelover community is growing in number as a group and as a community. Today we are more than 18000 strong on Facebook, but there are also growing in numbers using the hashtag on twitter, instagram and on blogs and webpages. When we announced the… Read more →
Barolo Boys – The Story of a Revolution Barolo Boys is a documentary film telling the story of the Langhe region, the North Western region of Italy, and its famous “Boys”. I had a great opportunity to watch in in Premiere during a special screening. A great movie for wine enthusiasts to introduce people to the Barolo wines, history of… Read more →
Wine on the silver screen: American wine story Have you ever dreamed of owning or starting your own vineyard? I have just seen a film about dreams, about courage, about desire and about daring but also about the price it costs. A film about the pioneers’ hardships and rewards – pour a glass of wine, sit back and join us… Read more →
Nemea Wine Tour 2014 took place earlier this year in June, organized by Ted Lelekas (a great #winelover and ambassador of Greek wines) and some great wine producers. Greece make some tremendous wines and some countries should be envious of it’s diversity and richness of grape varieties. This is what this great short 25 minutes movie plans to reveal you. 4 intense days, 29… Read more →
You all helped to select the hashtags we’re going to have on our new t-shirt… now it’s time to decide on the style… We have 4 different ones to choose from. The big picture is to show the hashtags in more detail. The 3 correspondent t-shirts below show how the t-shirt will actually look like. >>>>>>> 1 <<<<<<<… Read more →
Isn’t it about time we get together again? Yes! It’s been too long since we celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the #winelover community in Trieste in February this year… and it’s going to take too long until we get together again to celebrate the 3rd anniversary next year… so here is the solution: We will get together in September… to celebrate… life!!… Read more →
I spent a few days in Lugana (south of Lake Garda, Italy) with a group of #winelover-s and I had the chance to taste many wines of the region. From the freshest bottles of the 2013 vintage (which I knew quite well) to aged bottles of the 70′s and 80′s (that I had never had before) and everything in between. … Read more →