Wine tasting to be held in Sidney

Euan McKay Wine Merchant and Trembath & Taylor, Australian wholesaler, will be holding an annual wine tasting in Sidney on June 24.

The event will count with “20 Hot Frenchies", 20 Italian wines and about the same number of Portuguese wines ― Vintage Ports and Tawnies from many harvests, included. 

More details coming soon!

Sidney wine tasting
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Portuguese wines won 28 medals in Latin America

Portuguese wine stood out in the VII International Wine Competition in Brazil, which was held at the Hotel & Spa do Vinho in the Vale dos Vinhedos, Serra Gaúcha. Portugal earned 28 medals in total, being the second most awarded country.

Portuguese wines won 28 medals in Brazil
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The initiative was organized by Brazilian Enology and Inner Publisher Association, which is responsible for several publications of the sector, during the 8th and 11th April. The event is the largest wine competition in Latin America and included 709 samples from 78 countries, representing an increase of 41% compared to the previous edition.

The results of the VII International Wine Competition of Brazil will be widely disseminated during the Expovinis 2014, an event that will take place in the next 22^nd to 24^th of April.

The “Smart Wine Glass”: the revolution in wine tasting is here

Smart Wine Glass - a portuguese innovation
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Technology advances continue to amaze us every day. This time the innovation is connected to the wine business, where two Portuguese entrepreneurs raise above the competition and won the prestigious WBIS Business award for their project: The “Smart Wine Glass”. The ceremony was held on the second day of the “Wine Business Innovation” summit which main objective is to propel creativity and entrepreneurship in the area.

The concept behind this intelligent glass promises to improve any wine tasting experience: it will remember a wine’s name even if you don’t. As a wine professional attending a wine event, you taste several wines, interact with many of the producers and sometimes you can have difficulty remembering every single name. “We implemented a prototype of a “Smart Wine Glass” that would help people easily collect information on tasted wines and visited tables at any wine event” explained André Ribeirinho at Wine Business Innovation.

But how will this “Smart Wine Glass” actually work?

Every glass at a wine event will have a small electronic chip applied to it and every table of the wine event will have a sensor. The consumer swipes their wine glass on the sensor and it is recorded. Later on, the consumer will receive an email with all the key information: which wines they tasted, the brands they visited and where to buy them.

The Portuguese team believes that this concept will improve the lives of wine professionals: “We’re very happy with the reaction to our project. We’ve been getting excellent feedback!” said André Ribeirinho.

See it to believe it.

The “Smart Wine Glass” will be implemented for the first time at Rios Vinhos Portugal, a wine eventheld by two media giants: the Brazilian newspaper O Globo and the Portuguese newspaper Público, over the 23^rd, 24^th and 25^th of May in Rio de Janeiro.