We are pleased to announce that the Tbilisi Marriott Hotel will be the venue for the International Wine Tourism Conference (28 - 29 March) and Wine Tourism Workshop (30 March) 2014. As with past conference venues there are plenty of stories to discover! During 100...
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Wines of Georgia Tasting
Wines of Georgia concluded the 2 days of the 2013 International Wine Tourism Conference. It was to be expected that Georgia’s two most important grape varieties, the white Rkatsiteli and the red Saperavi, would be presented, together with a wine vinified in the...
Georgia, Cradle of Wine
This was the title of the closing plenary session at the International Wine Tourism Conference and Workshop in Croatia 2013 and was made by the Georgian National Tourism Administration and the Georgian National Wine Agency. They gave an introduction to the wine...
A Day in the Life of an IWINETC Blogger
7:00 am - Wake up! A blogger has things to research and prep for the day. 8:30 am - Breakfast buffet. Item of note: 'bacon' on Croatia is really fried prosciutto 9:30 am - Branding Nova Scotia's wine region with Lesley Trites (Girl on Wine). Lesley shared with us that...
Wine Tourism Workshop & Veneto Fam Trip for Tour Operators gets a Bravo!
The 2013 International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop has received very positive feedback for the quality of the talks included in the conference programme, the wine tastings and the post conference Fam Trips to Friuli (Blogger - Media Group) and to Veneto...
Social Media Experts Reap Rewards in IWINETC Contest
Prior to the start of this year’s International Wine Tourism Conference in Zagreb, the blogger media group was given a challenge: The person with the most re-tweets of their introduction post on the Wine Pleasures site would win a prize. With a full roster of social...
Final Hours in Fruili
Traversing the winding roads from Spilimbergo to the Farm at Azzano Decimo, one passes many vineyards and small towns. The vineyards, still asleep, look naked next to the bright green grasses refreshed from a day of steady rain. Disembarking from the bus, our group...
“Better Than Heaven” at Azienda Agricola Zoff
Giuseppe Zoff warns my colleagues and I, "This is better than heaven." He presents us with a sample of his "special" flavored yogurt produced at his farm, Azienda Agricola Zoff, in the town of Cormons in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Friuli as most refer to it) region...
Wine Trailing on Friuli’s Strada del Vino e Sapori Pordenonesi
To paraphrase Charles Dickens’ “food glorious food,” after a few days of rain I was thinking, “sun glorious sun!” Tuesday morning on the International Wine Tourism Conference Blogger-Media Fam Trip began with a few clouds and by afternoon, while visiting wineries on...