We’ve got a great wine business itinerary lined up. Thank you Austral Group (@australgroup)!
ProChile (main site in Spanish), Masako Noriwa, Sectorialist.
This will be a good first stop for everyone to get maps and information about Chile’s wine regions. @ProChile
Vinnova (Spanish), Elena Carreter, General Manager.
Item #1 on their Project list looks looks interesting: Consumer Preference
Capel, Javier Marcos, Export Director.
It will be fun to learn about Pisco.
The website has a lot of flash and some facebook links.
International Seminar (7th Annual Wines of Chile Awards)
Wines of Chile has a nice WordPress website. RF Binder does their communications.
I hope we make it to the session on “Tapping into the Ever Changing Wine Media Landscape” with @DavidLawrason.
@WinesOfChile has started the #AWOCA hashtag for the award show.
Concha y Toro
Concha Y Toro has a fun tour with sweet sound effects, light effects, and architecture designed around their the Casillero Del Diablo wine.
Check out some of the content that @DiabloWine links to! I don’t know who does the tweeting, but it looks like the website was designed by KI Tecnology
Emiliana Winery, Fernando Pavon, Export Mngr. N.A.
Last year we had a good meeting with Andres Gillmore. Andres is Chilean, gave us an English Presentation on Emiliana Winery, and was taking Portuguese classes at the time.
Movi Chile, Sven Bruchfeld, President
Check out Movi Chile’s WordPress blog. @MoviChile.
Association of Wines of Chile, Claudia Soler, Studies Manager
This will be a good chance for Q & A about Chile’s wine regions, sub regions, and zones.
Cousiño-Macul Winery
This looks like a beautiful winery
They’re on facebook and @Cousino_Macul.
Patricio Tapia, Associate Editor, Wines & Spirits Magazine
I look forward to meeting one of Chile’s most accomplished wine writers.
I’ve read a Chilean wine book by Peter Richards, but nothing (yet) by Patricio Tapia.
Sunday, January 17
Tour of Valparaiso
Monday, January 18
Kross Asbjorn Gerlach Operations Manager
It will be fun to hear about this entrepreneurial beer brand.
Blog posts about Kross: 1, 2, 3
Viña Emiliana Orgánica
After hearing from Export Manager Fernando Pavon we’ll get to tour the winery.
Viña Catrala, Felipe Rodriguez, CEO
Felipe Rodriguez was rico suave last year.
He had funny one-liners, knew lots about global politics, and rolled a napkin into a cigarette while talking to the group.
Check out the video from last year, I marked some of his funny one-liners. Some others were:
“Some people call them tears, other people call them legs. Me, I prefer legs.”
“Oak barrels can be reused more than once, just like a woman shrinks back after having a baby.”
William Cole Winery, William Cole, CEO
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