November INTERWINE and Wine bloggers tasting in China, Guangzhou

It started as something unexpected. I was exploring the Chinese wine websites and blogs, as a part of my market study for my upcoming trip to Guangzhou, where la casa de las vides will participate at the INTERWINE wine fair. As I asked around on twitter about a wine bloggers in China, weiguokong, a Chinese wine blogger offered me his help to set up a tasting.

I am writing this at the airport of Charles de Gaulle where waiting for 4 hours in terminal 2E is not my favourite way to spend my time. I was glad to find a good internet connection here, although the French keyboard is difficult to zrite on, you see, I cqn0t find the q, the , qnd the w and the z are qlzays turned qround, but qpqrt fro, thqt it)s ok, i guess:

So back to typing with two fingers and some extra attention to my keyboard, tomorrow 26 November I will arrive in Guangzhou, where on 27 to 29 November the INTERWINE Canton wine fair takes place.

I know it will be very difficult to enter the Chinese market, and this fair will be tough one for our wines. Nevertheless it is important, especially now, to keep on investigating and trying to make new contacts.

As an extra event Casavides will organise an extra tasting on Friday evening especially for wine bloggers in China as a way to get new and above all different contacts. Last month in Boston a similar tasting resulted in has some great contacts, and in the end it doesn`t really cost me a lot of extra effort to open a few bottles and taste the wines in a downtown restaurant. Actually I love opening our wines, the more the better, especially for those who never before tasted our wines before.

I was told that there would be somebody to translate for me from english to chinese, because I have not been able to find the pomegranatephone yet in the stores here in Paris

The tasting has been prepared by CHINEWINELOVER. To know is behind this carefully selected name: check chinewinelover on twitter on 29 November (chinese time), and his blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/tigerlikewine to find out who Weiguokong, the most active Chinese wine blogger is.

I will publish some INTERWINE AND BLOGGERS TASTING photos soon on this blog!

Coming Up: Miami & Boston Blogger Wine Tastings

In a previous post, I mentioned the possibility of hosting some blogger wine tastings on my trips abroad. Here is the follow up:

Next week, I will fly to Miami. The Miami WIne Fair has collaborated with IBERWINE, which has attracted quite a few Spanish wineries that will be present in Miami from 25 to 27 October. It will be Casa Vides first trip to the US with our wines. Our aim is clear: to find serious wine importers who want to import our wines. OK, so the wine fair is nice to meet importers, but why should you care? What’s important for you to know as a blogger is what I am doing when I am NOT at the wine fair.

I think it would be great to do some bloggers tastings like the one I did three weeks ago on my trip to Cork (Ireland) or in Valencia at Enopata.

Wouldn’t it be fun to have at least one in Miami on the 25 or 27 October?

IMPORTANT: If you are a blogger and like to taste some Spanish wines from Valencia in Miami, please contact me, I am still open to any suggestion for the Miami Tasting.

The second blogger wine tasting will be held in Boston, although preparations are still in progress. Why Boston?

Thanks to Twitter some bloggers (note: not only wine bloggers) have showed interest to meet up in an informal way to taste our wines and have fun talking about wine and drinking it. The place and the hour will soon be announced, and I’ll be sure to bring along at least a Valencian rosé and a red wine to taste.

If you read this and you are interested in meeting with me, please do contact me with a comment below.

My only concern is that the laws in the US will make it too difficult for me to ship the wines to Boston. I can use some help from somebody in Boston to guide me how to get my wines there, because it is incredible how many rules each US  state invents to make things more difficult for wine exporters to get their wine samples into the US. Maybe I will have to share my experience with you after my US trip, and dedicate a post to “how you get your wines to the US”.

Follow casavides on twitter and stay tuned. Maybe the next bloggers tasting will be held in your town.

Saludos

Emilio Saez van Eerd

New wine movie

Acabo de encontrar el anuncio de una nueva pelicula sobre vino Bottle Shock en varios blogs de vino.  Dicen que va tener tanto exito como la pelicula Side Ways (mejor conocido en España como Entre Copas) de 2004.  Lo que me interesa es que el vino puede ser perfectamente el protagonista en el cine.

Si Entre Copas al final ha despertado el interes por el vino de Pinot Noir, esta pelicula Bottle Shock seguramente va despertar el interes por el vino de California en general.  Como director de exportacion doy mi apoyo a cada pelicula sobre vino o despierta el interes por la cultura del vino.

Me pregunto ya desde hace 4 años cuando ví Entre Copas por la primera vez en una vuelo de Amsterdam a Singapore, cuando se va rodar una pelicula sobre los vinos de España?  Una pelicula sobre vino español daria un empuje importante al vino español.

No hace falta que sea una pelicula sobre vino de Valencia (aunque me ayudaría en exportar nuestros vinos). Pero lo que a mi siempre me ha llamado la atencion es la historia del vino en España. Por ejemplo el vino fondillon como vino mas antigua en los cortes reales de la antigua Europa, el Vino de Jerez, la revolucion de los vinos de Rioja, la importancia del puerto de Valencia y Alicante durante la época de la filoxera. Hay muchos ejemplos mas que merecen la pena ser mencionados.

Como amante de vino me gustaria ver como minimo cada año una nueva pelicula de vino,  y cada 4 años como minimo una pelicula sobre el vino español.

- Emilio Saez van Eerd