Archive for December, 2008

For those of you who didn’t attend December’s London Bloggers Meetup you missed out on some great wine tasting along with some video clips put together by the sponsoring wineries. For those who did, you will probably want to see them again, so here goes, enjoy. My persoanl favourite is from Thomas Lippert at Winzerblog.de… but they’re all here for your enjoyment..: Javier Navarro – tintoralba.com Gianpaolo Paglia – poggioargentiera.com Emilio Saez Van Eerd – casavides.com Jose Eduardo J Silva – cortesdecima.com Jan Pettersen from Fernando de Castilla talking to Justin Roberts – jerez-xerez-sherry.blogspot.com Oscar Quevedo – Quevedoportwine.com And of course, we should not forget our fabulous host Mr Rob McIntosh… Thanks once again to all of our wineries and to Rob. I have only heard great feedback about you all!

Well folks, it’s been another great London Bloggers Meetup and this time I actually have 5 minutes to blog about it. It was no reflection on Melanie Seasons’ presentation from the November meet that no post has appeared to date, in fact I thought Mel delivered an engaging and entertaining presentation. The lack of posting was purely down to a lack of time – I know, lame excuse. I’m still waiting to see the video footage from BitchBuzz, maybe it’s coming soon… So it’s with the same excuse that I have apologise to the generous wineries involved in last nights meetup for the lack of blog post up here pre-event! And so, I’m sure everyone who attended will agree, last night’s meetup was great. We were treated to a short and sweet presentation from Rob Macintosh at Wineconversation.com coupled with a wine tasting session – which was a first for the London Bloggers Meetup. A huge vote of thanks to the wineries for providing their fine tipples, which in no particular order were: 1.    Vivanco Viura/Malvasia 2007, Bodegas Dinastia Vivanco – courtesy of thirstforrioja.co.uk 2.    Riesling Kabinett Trocken 2007, Weingut Clauer (and if you are really nice to me, a […]