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Live Blogging Plenary session by John Callely (CEO Jameson Distillery Tours)

By winepleasures | Published: February 3, 2010
Jameson Distillery Tours! How our Visitor Center Has Grown Our Whiskey Sales. How our Visitor Centre has grown our Whiskey Sales. Are you open for visits? In 1984 Jameson opened its first visitor centre called “The Irish Whiskey Corner” in a former Jameson warehouse. Within a short number of years capacity reached saturation level at 46000 [...]
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2nd Wine Pleasures Annual International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop

By winepleasures | Published: September 9, 2009
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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2nd Wine Pleasures Live Wine Tasting from the Celler Mas Foraster winery

By winepleasures | Published: September 1, 2009
Following on from the huge success of the 1st ever live wine tasting at the Bohigas winery (DO Catalunya), the Wine Pleasures team travels to the Celler Mas Foraster winery in medeaval Montblanc in the heart of the DO Conca de Barberà wine region of Catalunya for the our 2nd live wine tasting. This time we [...]
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Parés Baltà open for “extreme wine tourism”

By winepleasures | Published: July 16, 2009
Second part of a Wine Pleasures winery visit programme I was lucky enough to witness.  Our visit to Parés Baltà was the complete antithesis to Rimarts. For starters, Parés Baltà is an older (established in 1790), much bigger winery with a staff of over fifty and five estates. Rather than wandering around the depths of the [...]
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Wine tasting tours in Catalonia’s Cava region, Spain

By winepleasures | Published: July 8, 2009
Before today, I had not realised that some 95% of all cavas are produced in the Penedès region. Armed with that knowledge, it was with mounting excitement that I looked forward to my visit to one of the renowned cava producers of the region, Pages Entrena. Joan Pages Entrena met us as we exited the [...]
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