My dearest friends and fellow #winelover-s, As we celebrate 11 years of our wonderful community (Karin has organized a Zoom call for a virtual celebration, so be sure to join!), I can not express enough joy and gratitude for all the great things we have achieved together over this time. However, life changes, and now is the time for me… Read more →
Category: News
WINE TOURISM SURVEY
Hey there my beautiful, lovely #winelover family! For some time now I have been wondering about the preferences of our group of wine aficionados in terms of planning their wine-related trips. As I hope that next year we will have many more opportunities to travel, I would very much like to ask you to take some time to answer this… Read more →
Instagram, here we go!
Great news! We are now also on Instagram! In addition to info about hangouts, charities, special tastings, upcoming events, etc., we regularly select a sampling of the most exciting news posted here on our #wineloverfbcommunity to share with our IG community as well! So if you post something cool here, chances are your story will end up in our IG… Read more →
Open letter to the Sommeliers Choice Awards
Open letter to the Sommeliers Choice Awards: Fellow members of the Sommeliers Choice Awards, Yesterday I found out via a posting on Facebook that I was included on your “Top Wine Influencers In 2019 You Need to Pay Attention To.” So let me start where I should: Thank you very very much for including me. This was greatly appreciated. However, my… Read more →
Worlds best sommelier 2016
I sat through a fab night looking at the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (AIS) final – the world best sommelier final at youtube. I must say I loved it – then again I am a wine nerd and not a normal wine consumer. The #winelover community wants to gives our warmest congratulations to Arvid Rosengren, Sweden’s second world champion… Read more →
Italian Wine Ambassador. Such a great honor!
I was searching the net for my presentation about Italian wines at the Duxbury Food & Wine Festival on Saturday.. and look what I found! The video of my interview after I became an Italian Wine Ambassador… pretty #cool! 🙂 Cheers!! Luiz Alberto, >>> Founder of the #winelover community >>> MW candidate >>> Member of the Circle of Wine… Read more →
#winelover Anniversary 2015 – Lisbon & Alentejo
We will be celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the #winelover community in Portugal this year. The program will start on Wednesday 11th February (people can arrive during the day – morning is preferential!) and end on Sunday 15th after lunch. (more details coming soon). Be there! It will be #epic! Cheers! Your hosts, Ana Sofia de Oliveira Celma Carreira Andre… Read more →
#SaveLugana campaign – Help for the future #winelover !
#winelover for #SaveLugana #saveLugana – sign the petition here! The #winelover community are #Luganalover-s – are you? The#winelover community is growing in number as a group and as a community. Today we are more than 18000 strong on Facebook, but there are also growing in numbers using the hashtag on twitter, instagram and on blogs and webpages. When we announced the… Read more →
Barolo Boys – The Story of a Revolution
Barolo Boys – The Story of a Revolution Barolo Boys is a documentary film telling the story of the Langhe region, the North Western region of Italy, and its famous “Boys”. I had a great opportunity to watch in in Premiere during a special screening. A great movie for wine enthusiasts to introduce people to the Barolo wines, history of… Read more →
Wine on the silver screen: American wine story
Wine on the silver screen: American wine story Have you ever dreamed of owning or starting your own vineyard? I have just seen a film about dreams, about courage, about desire and about daring but also about the price it costs. A film about the pioneers’ hardships and rewards – pour a glass of wine, sit back and join us… Read more →