Archive for June 2009

Working week in Germany Part 3

Jun 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Carls, Christos Kokkalis, Dagmar Willich, Kokkalis, Rene Baumgart

  On Thursday, I had a leisure day in Hamburg. I met with Christos Kokkalis at lunch time and we strolled around the city, had coffee, and as always talked a lot about Greek wines. Late afternoon I received a call from Mario Scheuermann, who asked if I could provide him with some more Greek [...]



Working week in Germany Part 2: Meeting the big guys

Jun 29th, 2009 | By | Category: Christos Kokkalis, Eckhard Supp, Enoworldwine, Kokkalis, Mario Scheuermann, Michael Pleitgen, Odorfa, Tschebull, Weinakademie Berlin, Weinreporter

On Wednesday morning I woke up at 5:00 am and drove 5 hours to Hamburg. I arrived at the Hotel Baseler Hof around 11:30 am. A Twitter meeting was planned for the afternoon. This was organised by Mario Scheuermann alas weinreporter, who is a very well known wine critic and journalist. The agenda was for [...]



Working week in Germany Part 1

Jun 28th, 2009 | By | Category: Germany, Greek wines, Kempen, Munich

I spent all of last week in Germany with a tight and full schedule. On the 20th June I flew to Duesseldorf and arrived at my base close to Siegen in the afternoon. A week before that, I had sent a pallet of mixed wines from Greece to Germany (one pallet carries roughly 600 bottles), [...]



AVIN – An ISBN for Wines by Adegga

Jun 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Adegga, AVIN, ISBN

Adegga, the Social Wine Discovery service, has recently introduced AVIN codes for wines. AVIN is a free unique code for wines, similar to an open ISBN for books. When naming wines, people often use different names while refering to the same wine. This is certainly true for Greek wines abroad, as the consumer can easily [...]



World famous oenologist explores co-operation with Alpha Estate

Jun 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Alpha Estate, Eric Boissenot, Greek wines

  Eric Boissenot, one of the most famous oenologists of the winemaking world, was recently invited at the Alpha Estate in Amyndeo, Greece, by the vineyard’s oenologist Angelos Iatridis. Eric Boissenot maintains his wine laboratory in the region of Pauillac, Bordeaux. He has many high-class co-operations, amongst others with Chateau Lafite, Chateau Latour, Chateau Margaux, [...]