Archive for July 2010

Travel update

Jul 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Peloponnese

By the time you are reading this, I will be gone. I am spending 2 weeks with my family in the Peloponnese. We have arranged for some friends to stay at our home in the meantime, so this takes away the worries of leaving an unoccupied house. I honestly can’t recall when it was the [...]



A true wine lover

Jul 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Xinomavro

I find that true wine lovers often make an extra effort to expand their knowledge. One of the most rewarding ways doing so is to meet with winemakers and learn from them. Michael Holzer, who had watched the Greek wine episode on Wine Library TV, contacted me towards the end of May. Michael is a [...]



First Greek winery joins the future of ECommerce

Jul 13th, 2010 | By | Category: Marketing

Three weeks ago Cruvee, a US based company that offers winery solutions for the Social Media Age, made a revolutionary announcement: As part of their YourWineYourWay movement they launched a free application that allows wineries to promote and market their wines directly through their Facebook Fan Page. Participating wineries can add a “Wines” tab that [...]



A real fine wine article

Jul 6th, 2010 | By | Category: Wine magazines

The wines of Greece continue to make more and more headlines. A mere two years ago, one had to look hard to find solid info. Thankfully this has changed since, and I am very excited that more wine writers and bloggers discover these treasures and report on them. There are of course writers that have [...]