IWINETC 2012 attracted over 300 industry professionals to Perugia, with a total number of 253 conference delegates, 26 Bloggers, 95 workshop participants of which 40 were Hosted Buyers, an increase of 10% on 2011 (pre-audited figures). The event delivered three days...
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Ciao Italia! Bok Croatia! Call for Papers for #IWINETC 2013
The 5th Annual International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop 2013 Croatia organized by Wine Pleasures with the support of several public and private entities is a professional get together of a large number of wine and travel professionals from around the world...
Tasting at Mustilli Winery during IWINETC 2012
Three lovely wines showing great typicality made even more interesting by using local grape varieties. Tasting notes taken at the time from four bloggers... Mustilli Spumante: "a lemon and mandarin thing going on here... a mineral apple thing"...
Vesuvius, Romeo, Napoli, Pizza, Campania & Wine Pleasures
“Our lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth turn as the days turn” ~ Homer, taking just this snippet from Odysseus’s own Odyssey; it reminds a bit about the eight day Italian Odyssey that I and a great group of other wine writers [bloggers] had embarked...
Terre Margaritelli Winery – Umbrian Hospitality
“We are small. We are new. We want to produce our own wines with our own personality. As a new producer it is important for us to have people listen to our story.” - Federico Bibi, Sales and Marketing Director of Terre Margaritelli Winery In a region where so many...
Terre del Principe uncovered by the Minority Wine Report
When Manuela Piancastelli first took a group of bloggers through the Terre del Principe in Campania she called it a “newer” winery. “It’s only 500 years old,” she said as she opened the floor and led us down the dark stairs to a cellar her and her husband – the...
An evening with the passionate Goretti family
After listening to Micheal Wanbickler’s opening speech at the 2012 International Wine Tourism Conference, I heard someone behind me say “ciao Melba, how are you?” The voice caught me completely by surprise as I whirled around to face the smiling animated face of Sara...
IWINETC 2012 Opening Morning Round Up
Day 1 Session Overview at the IWINETC Excitement brewed over the weekend as the opening address and sessions of the International Wine Tourism Conference edged closer. The conference began on Monday morning with an introductory address by Chiara Lungarotti of...
Bloggers to Hit the Highway for Campania after IWINETC 2012!
Watch out for our the IWINETC Media bus! Wine Pleasures has hand-selected a group of highly talented wine media, journalists, and travel consultants from around the world, from the United States and Canada to the United Kingdom, France and Germany. This team of...