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A Tribute to the Spanish Summer Peach

Summer is the perfect time to snack on fresh fruit, but a question I rarely ask myself is where that snack comes from. At home, I try to get most of my produce from farmer’s markets, but in Spain I decided to go straight to the farm itself. The Olivella-Font Clara peach farm is located in [...]
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Mas Passamaner Rings Wedding Bells for Spanish Wine Lovers

Sunlight pours through the tall windows that bound the lobby of Mas Passamaner, where I’m sitting on one of the room’s oversized plush couches surrounded by sleek wicker accents. The manager offers café con leche as he explains that the five-star hotel served as a private home for most of the 20th century, until it [...]
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Graphic Art Meets Spanish Wine at Ferré i Catasús

Upon arrival at Ferré i Catasús, it is difficult to tell whether the building is a winery or a modern art gallery. Surrounded by bright flowers, gleaming fountains, and rows of blooming grapevines, the Ferré i Catasús winery sits in the heart of the Penedès region of Spain, about an hour outside of Barcelona. The business [...]
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Wine Tasting Improves Student’s Spanish Fluency

This Friday Wine Pleasures in collaboration with SpanishinSitges will be leading a Cava Wine tasting for learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language. Employing the learning methodology “Teaching Through the Target Language” students get to kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand they get to improve the 4 [...]
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Barcelona & Penedès Ring Wedding Bells for Norwegian Couples

Weddings are great sources of revenue for all the varying kinds of providers involved – wedding dress consultant/shop, florist, photographer, limousines, hotels, travel agent,  and of  course the reception venue which tends to be a restaurant. Most couples prefer to do the organising themselves particularly if they are to get married in their home town [...]
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Social Media for Wine Tourism Providers – What’s that?

Social Media for Wine Tourism Providers – What’s that? Anthony Swift (Wine Pleasures)
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WINE PLEASURES INTERNATIONAL WINE TOURISM CONFERENCE PACKED WITH TALKS WORKSHOPS, WINE TASTINGS & WINERY VISITS

On February 1st 2010 over 200 wine tourism professionals from around the world will descend on the little know Catalan village of La Beguda Baixa in the Penedès & Cava wine region of Catalonia, Spain for the 2nd edition of the Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference and Workshop which will be held over four [...]
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CONVOCATORIA 2ª Edición Wine Pleasures Congreso y Workshop Internacional de Enoturismo

Los próximos días 1-4 de Febrero del 2010 se celebrará en el Barceló Hotel Montserrat la  2ª edición del Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop , la única cita internacional especializada en el desarrollo profesional de las personas involucradas en el sector de enoturismo y una plataforma de comercialización y promoción [...]
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2nd Wine Pleasures Annual International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop

The 2nd annual International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop will be held at the Barceló Montserrat Hotel located in Spain’s hallowed Cava and Penedès wine regions affording magnificant views of the breathtaking serrated mountain of Montserrat. All this just 30 mins from the trendy and hip modernist Catalonian capital of Barcelona. The Barceló Montserrat Hotel is [...]
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(Español) 2ª Wine Pleasures Congreso y Workshop Internacional de Enoturismo

Los próximos días 1 al 4 de febrero 2010,  se celebrará en la comarca del Penedès en el Barceló Montserrat Hotel la 2ª edición del Wine Pleasures Congreso y Workshop de Enoturismo. The Barceló Montserrat Hotel es un hotel con encanto situada en la La Beguda Baixa en la provincia de Barcelona. Entre el Mediterráneo y [...]
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