Monthly Archives: February 2009
VERA DE ESTENAS (DO Utiel – Requena) at the Wine Pleasures Workshop: Buyer meets Spanish Cellar
The Wine Pleasures Workshop: Buyer meets Spanish Cellar looks set to benefit enormously all of the participating Spanish wineries. With the appointment making between buyers and cellars well underway, many wineries are already reporting positive looking appointments.
Most active buyers for setting early appointmnets include RMB Associates (USA), Vin Kompagniet (Denmark), Omniwines (USA), Distribuidora de la [...]
Loacker (organic wine) at the Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop
South Tyrol’s wine history goes back to well beyond the Roman period. This region was part of the Roman province of Rhaetia and its wines were in high demand among the eternal city’s patricians. Now, some 2000 years later the South Tyrolean wines are more popular than ever thanks to a 20 year-long strive to [...]
MASET, THE CAVA SPECIALIST
Good news for buyers travelling to participate in the Wine Pleasures Workshop: Buyer meets Spanish Cellar! Cava is often a preferred wine for buyers and Maset del LLeó have some excellent cavas to consider.
Here’s some background info on the winery: Since 1777, the Maset family is closely linked to the world of wine. A legacy [...]
Punset (organic wine) – one of several Italian wineries looking to export their wines through the Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop
Not surprisingly, we are presenting information on another Italian organic wine producer to participate in the next Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop:
The Punset Winery is located in the village of Neive, in the Piemonte district of Italy. The “azienda agricola” lays up on a hill which faces the old town. The Winery’s name Punset comes [...]
Organic wines from Italy set to dominate the Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop
Buyers travelling to Spain with the aim of adding organic and biodyanmic wines to their exisiting portfolios might think they will be seeing majority Spanish wineries at the workshop event. Well they couldn’t be more wrong as it seems that Itlalians really do do it better!
With already 8 Italian wineries making the journey to Spain [...]
RMB Associates Inc to participate in the Wine Pleasures Workshops
Based in two countries: the state of Georgia and Quebec, RMB Associates Inc (Importer of Fine Wines & Spiritis) will be participating in both the Wine Pleasures Workshop: Buyer meets Spanish Cellar and the International Organic Workshop this March. Both the President and the Vice President of the company will be attending.
For particpating wineries it’s [...]
Fasoli Gino (organic wine) also has a 0% sulphite wine!
David Moore has made an interesting comment on Wine 2.0 re consumers and sulphite wines in the USA. Perhaps more organic wine producers should be moving to 0% sulphites or perhaps conventional wine producres should be moving to at least to the sulphite restrictions of organic wines?
Fasoli Gino (Veneto), also present at the Wine Pleasures International [...]
Los Pinos 0% (organic wine) Sulphite free!
Have you got wine consumers concerened about healthier eating and drinking? Sulphite free wines have got to appeal! At the Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop we are fortunate to have 3 wineries (to date) producing suphite free wines – Los Pinos (Spain), Perlage (Italy) and VINTESA (Italy).
Here’s some info on the Los Pinos 0%:
Grapes selected [...]



Antica Enotria (azienda agrobiologica) – more organic wines from Italy to delight us at the the 3rd edition of the Wine Pleasures International Organic Workshop