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New Wine Consumer 2011 – We’re Back

randulo — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:15 +0000

Coming soon, a brand new series of New Wine Consumer discussions. Guests from all aspects of wine, but also your calls welcome. Look for the announcement in January 2011 about the return of the New Wine Consumer.

We’ve already had some amazing people on NWC, such as the ubiquitous Randall Grahm (Bonny Doon and so much more), Portuguese entrepreneur André Ribeirinho, Burgundy expert ‘Burghound‘ Allen Meadows, the inevitable Gary Vaynerchuck (@garyvee), Neil Monnens of Wine BlueBook, Tom Cannavan of WIne-Pages.com and TheWineGang.com, Nathalie Schyler (Château Kirwan), Jane Anson (Decanter, NewBordeaux.com), Jamie Goode (WineAnorak.com), Wendy Narby (InsiderTasting.com), Don and Petie Kladstrup (authors of Wine & War, Champagne), François Audouze (Ancient Wine Academy), Wink Lorch (WineTravelGuides.com), Alan Kropf, editor of Mutineer Magazine, Robin Garr (WineLoversPage.com), and folks from WineBizRadio.com, Snooth.com, WineQ.com, TheWineSpies.com, OpenWineConsortium.org, MesVignes.com, Crushpad.com, Solorosawines.com, DirtySouthWines.com, Domaine-Gagnard.com

Economic Crisis? I Got Yer Crisis Right Here

randulo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:29:54 +0000

After four days of interviewing mostly foreign wine producers, I happened upon a stand that was selling Absinthe produced in Provence. I don’t wear my badge because it has a tendancy to fall off and I’d have lost it the first day if I hadn’t just stuck it in my pocket. When I asked about the Absinthe, the guy looked annoyed, he was discussing the crisis with colleagues and they all agreed, if I didn’t have a badge, I could go bother someone else.

Walking away, I happened upon this scene:

Let me see, which is the better commercial approach? D’UH!

UK and EU Local Phone-in numbers

randulo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:16:23 +0000

France at 6 PM : (Paris) 01 76 60 70 03

Sweden at 6 PM : (Stockholm) 08 525 07 041

In the UK, call in at 5PM on one of these numbers:

Cardiff 02921070010
Glasgow 01412830010
Edinburgh 01315120010
London 02032981033

How to download the mp3 files

randulo — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:06:45 +0000

You can subscribe to the New Wine Consumer via RSS in a reader, such as Google Reader or via iTunes. You can also quickly find any of the posted recordings by just looking at the RSS feed in a browser. Click the RSS icon at the right of the address bar in your browser and it should open to a human-readable page:

How to find the mp3 files for download