Sponsoring the EWBC
By supporting the EWBC, you are taking advantage of an opportunity to support innovations in online media and wine blogging. With an aggregated audience of readers across all participant’s sites many times greater than the readership of any wine magazine, your support will be seen across the wine world and generally raise the online visibility of your own message and brand.
If you are interested in sponsoring the 2010 EWBC, please contact us for more information.
We’d like to graciously thank the following business for supporting the 2010 European Wine Bloggers Conference:
Conference Organizers
Catavino was founded in 1995 by Gabriella and Ryan Opaz. Based in Barcelona, Catavino is a comprehensive educational website covering Spanish and Portuguese wine through Iberian food, culture and travel. It is also the co-organizer of the European Wine Bloggers Conference.
The Wine Conversation was founded by Robert McIntosh in an effort to highlight the role of wine “outside the bubble” and tries to understand and educate on what wine means to ‘real people’. The Wine Conversation is a co-organizer of the European wine Bloggers Conference.
Event Sponsor
Austrian Wine Marketing Board supports and coordinates the strategic objectives of the Austrian wine industry in all matters relating to quality and sales. Particular attention is paid to marketing measures for the winegrowing regions of Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Vienna. Austrian wine on an international scale is considered small, but exceptional. No mass production; only rare creations. Austrian wine has come to be regarded as one of the wine world’s most remarkable phenomena: on every good wine list, it is appreciated by connoisseurs and lauded by journalists; and the “Austrian wine miracle” is an expression heard continuously across the globe.
Premier Sponsors
Wienwein is an association of the 6 leading wineries of vienna, founded in 2005. We are very happy that the EWBC will take place in our city, and it is our pleasure to host the group for a heuriger evening and show a little selection of diverse and quality driven Viennese wines.
Chile – a land of beautiful contrasts, rich in cultural diversity, and producing some of most exciting and naturally organic wines in the world Chile’s wine regions lie to the north and south of the capital city Santiago. Historically famous for its rich Cabernets and Merlots, modern Chile is now also being praised for its ability to impress with Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Syrah and its very own red grape Carmenère – deep in colour and rich in anti-oxidants Wines of Chile is a promotional body funded by the Chilean wine exporters, with the objective of increasing the awareness of Chile and improving the understanding of its wine regions and its ability to make wines of the highest quality. Wines of Chile will be supporting social media and the EWBC by hosting a technical tasting of Chilean wines.
Wein Burgenland is Austria’s youngest province has a long tradition of winegrowing. The historical significance of the first Trockenbeerenauslese in Donnerskirchen, or of Ruster Ausbruch, has determined the reputation and importance of winegrowing in Burgenland. We are proud to be supporting the EWBC and will be hosting a Post Conference Trip for participants interested in experiencing our beguiling reds with native varieties Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt; and our diverse sweet (Prädikat) wines that range from fragrant Spätlese and Auslese wines with a pronounced fruity flavour to top-quality Prädikat wines, such as Ruster Ausbruch and Trockenbeerenauslese.
Gold Sponsors
Wine in Moderation by Sogrape Vinhos : the premier family owned fine wine company in Portugal, Sogrape Vinhos, is committed to the WINE IN MODERATION movement and proud to be a sponsor of EWBC 2010 for the second year running.
Wine is an integral part of Vienna – just like St.Stephan’s Cathedral, the Schönbrunn Castle and the Vienna Boys’ Choir. Viennese wine is not just to be found in the traditional Heuriger. It is in the process of conquering the entire city. Each year 340 winegrowers spend 400,000 hours tending the city’s 700 hectares of vineyards, shaping Vienna’s cityscape and lifestyle alike. Vienna is the only major city with extensive vineyards within the city limits. Vienna is becoming ever more established as a wine-growing region. In short: Viennese wine is readily available and can be enjoyed at many spots in the city. Therefore the Vienna Tourist Board is very happy to support the 2010 European Wine Bloggers´ Conference.
Naked Wines is an online UK wine market. We invest in independent winemakers from around the world, to get delicious wines at preferential prices, which we pass on to our customers. We are supporting EWBC because we believe the future of wine lies in connecting wine lovers and winemakers directly, and bloggers are the key to doing that.
Media Sponsors
As one of the most widely circulated magazines for fine dining, wine appreciation and travel in the German language, Falstaff has served the demanding tastes of readers for 30 years. Falstaff stands for lifestyle quality and freedom of movement and expression.
As Europe’s leading drinks trade publication, the drinks business is at the forefront of what is happening in the drinks industry. We are determined to maintain our reputation by reacting to the latest developments and trends, as well as making a contribution to the trade with analysis, debate and opinion.
WINE ON THE ROCKS (WOTR) was founded in late 2009 by Creative Consultant slash Accredited Sommelier slash One Man Army, Finkus Bripp, and has been taking the snob out of the wine – one episode at a time! Recognized for its cutting-edge style and quick wit, WOTR has quickly gone on to become a precursor in regards to online wine video production and the style in which it promotes today’s wine culture. If you haven’t tuned in already, there’s no time like the present. Keep on keepin’ ON!
Palate Press, the online wine magazine, publishes stories that make readers think about, talk about, and drink better wine. Its diverse network of writers hails from around the globe and includes seasoned wine journalists, amateur wine writers, and even the producers themselves — people who can give voice to the issues and offer unique insights. Launched in September 2009, Palate Press quickly grew to become one of the best-read wine sites online, and its stories enjoy lively comment postings and active online re-circulation. We support these citizen journalists, including many of our own writers, because we all hold similar goals: to tell a true story about wine, in a true voice, and to advance the conversation with wine lovers everywhere.
VinVillage is an exciting social organization for wine lovers. VinVillage connects local wine groups with other “like-minded” wine lovers creating an exclusive “wine life-style” experience. Get more information at VinVillage.com. VinVillage IS where wine lovers connect!
Cooperating Partners
Natural cork and wine: Two natural products; two products of excellence. Over centuries, these two products have established a relationship of complicity, allowing for their mutual presence in the most memorable moments of their history. In this new era of information and digital communication, cork continues to be wine’s main ally; and this relationship is reflected in the preference of the wine makers and wine consumers towards this natural closure.
The Tourism-School Bergheidengasse Wien 13 will kindly supply the EWBC with a talented group of students who will serve all of the wines for the technical wine tastings on both Friday and Saturday.
Media140 is an independent organisation founded in February 2009 by Andrew Gregson, inspiring people and communities through our international events and workshops across journalism, marketing, branding, advertising, education, technology, politics and the third sector. We are a new kind of social co-operative bringing together a collection of highly respected and well-networked individuals from leading media outlets, universities, agencies and brands who link together our peers to have real discussions about the evolving world we work in. We help make the social web part of your business strategy.
Adegga is a Social Wine Discovery service. The idea is to take the complexity out of wine and allow people to discover wines based on other people’s choice. Adegga also helps you organize your wines. You can keep track of wines you taste, make a wish list or organize your home cellar. Adegga lets you build a personalized watch list so that you can keep track of what people on your list are choosing and tasting. You can add friends, wine bloggers, producers and just about anyone else. You can also add wine producers and wine shops to your personalized watch list so that you keep track of when a producer releases a new wine or a wine shop makes a promotion.
“Small people talk about things, average people talk about ideas and great people talk about wine.” One of the pillars of TheWineHub is Wine Tourism. Whether you are a wine maker, or a wine lover, we all enjoy having discoveries… TheWineHub exists to help you with that.”
Wine Everybody is a project led by Vinternet, a web agency specialized in the wine business in France since 1995, in collaboration with the wine bloggers and twitters community. Our ambition is to make wineeverybody.com the number one source of information for wine lovers and professionals. We welcome all suggestions that can help us develop this online service which aims at bridging the gap between wine consumers and producers. Send us your feedback.
Vinix allows you to create, personalise and share your contacts and contents quickly and for free.You can use Vinix either for fun or for work, to build up relations and reputation in the wine and food world.
