Siguen las obras… / The Works going on…
July 22nd, 2008Las obras de las Nuevas Instalaciones siguen a buen ritmo…
Needless to say, that our New Facilities are following a good rhythm of work…
HIGUERUELA 2007 one of the best Spanish wines in the off-trade market in UK
July 12th, 2008In the ‘New Wave Spanish Wine Awards’, our young red wine HIGUERUELA 2007 was chosen as one of the best wines available within the off-trade market in the United Kingdom.
This contest, organized by Wines from Spain took place in England during the 10th and the 11th of June, consisted of a team of 16 judges led by Tim Atkin MW, where they tasted around 900 wines, thus making a selection of the best 124.
We hope this good news will help introduce our wine to the English market, where we’ve just commenced with our new importer Raymond Reynolds.
See here the article with the winners. Higueruela is in the line number 66.
En el concurso “New Wave Spanish Wine Awards” nuestro vino tinto joven HIGUERUELA 2007 ha sido seleccionado como unos de los mejores vinos disponibles en el mercado off-trade de Reino Unido.
Este concurso organizado por Wines from Spain en Inglaterra el 10 y 11 de junio contó un equipo de 16 jueces liderados por Tim Atkin MW, quienes cataron cerca de 900 vinos haciendo una selección de los 124 mejores.
Esperamos que estas buenas noticias ayuden a la introducción de nuestro vino en el mercado inglés donde acabamos de empezar con nuestro importador Raymond Reynolds.
Aquí puedes ver el artículo con los ganadores. Higueruela esta en la línea 66.
Tintoralba & “Nariz de Oro 2008″
July 7th, 2008Fuimos invitados al concurso NARIZ DE ORO 2008 que se celebra en España para elegir al mejor Sumiller español del Año.
Los aspirantes al concurso tuvieron la oportunidad de catar nuestro vino TINTORALBA DULCE, el joven HIGUERUELA 2007 y el TINTORALBA ROBLE. La aceptación fue muy buena por parte de todos.
Como novedad en la edición de este año, fueron invitados como testigos de las pruebas diez expertos en vino procedentes de China, Japón, India y Singapur. Todos ellos cataron también nuestros vinos llamándoles especialmente la atención nuestro TINTORALBA DULCE que tan buena aceptación ha tenido en las ferias asiáticas donde hemos acudido.
Mª Beni presentando la cata de nuestros vinos / Mª Beni doing our wines tasting
We were invited to the competition ‘Nariz de Oro 2008’ which took place in Spain. This competition consisted in choosing the best Spanish Sumiller of the year.
The participants of this competition had the opportunity to taste our wines; ‘Tintoralba Dulce’ , the young ‘ Higueruela 2007’ and , finally, the ‘Tintoralba roble’ and thus they were considered to be indeed, very good wines.
To present the new wine edition of this year, experts in wine, representing China, Japan, India and Singapore, were there to witness the presentation. They all tasted our wines; however it could be considered that they especially paid particular attention to our Tintoralba Dulce. We indeed have participated in Asian Wine Fairs and there this wine was well accepted.
London Wine Fair 20-22 May - Visit us: Stand P60-29 * Spanish Pavilion
May 13th, 2008Visit us in London. We are going to be exhibiting in the London Wine Fair from 20th to 22nd May.
Come to taste our wines specially new Tintoralba Roble 2007 in its official presentation.
See you in London
Entrevista al Gerente de Tintoralba en el periódico La Verdad
May 6th, 2008El pasado día 20 de abril salió publicado en el periódico La Verdad una entrevista al Gerente de Tintoralba Diego Navalón con motivo del reciente galardón Bacchus de Oro a nuestro vino Higueruela 2007 . En la entrevista hace un repaso a la actualidad comercial de nuestra bodega.
Mª Beni (Técnico de Campo) y Diego Navalón en la pasada feria Primer 2007 en Madrid
El artículo completo en el periódico La Verdad lo podéis leer en el siguiente enlace:
«Para competir en el mercado del vino hay que aportar una nota diferenciadora»
Bubble brothers’ contribution to wine marketing
April 18th, 2008
How to use the blogoshere as an wine exporter/ wine importer? Is there a way to see blogs as a tool to communicate with potential suppliers or clients? I don’t know the answer to this question. But I thought it would be a nice to try out something different (”different” at least for me). Judge for yourself, did it work?
In 2007 Tintoralba was looking for a wine importer in Ireland and England. As I did some research on the internet, I bumped into the Bubble Brothers blog, one of the first importers with a blog. I asked the owner Julian from Bubble Brothers in a comment on a post in May 2007 to check out our wines of garnacha tintorera. He looked like a passionate wine importer to me, with a weak spot for authentic Spanish wines. To make a long story short, Julian agreed to receive our samples and to taste the wines. So far, so good.
There was only one requirement from my side. Julian had to post publicly his own tasting notes and his comments on his blog. As an exporter the risk of getting bad publicity is always there. And of course bad we prefer to avoid it by all means. But this blogging thing is different. As an exporter I’m interested to see how internet and blogs are contributing to the way of communicating about wine in general. And from a marketing point of view I am interested how it affects the way of looking at the marketing of the Tintoralba wines.
I forced myself to think of this as an experiment and the worst thing that could happen was an unfavourable tasting note. In that case it would be just an opinion more next to a few hundred that can be found on several tasting note sites. Inmediately I though: “what if I would do this with all my clients and all future potential clients all around the world”? Not only would this conversation make it more transparent how a producer tries to get any importer interested in his wines, it would as well take away the fear to have no control over negative public tasting notes. As if any winery can ever have any real control over it!
As with any other sample I send to any serious wine importer in the world, it can take a while to get feedback. In this case Tintoralba sent the samples in June 2007. Julian already mentioned that he wouldn’t have a lot of time during the summer. In September Julian told me he was sorry. “no time”, he told me. But then in February 2008 “out of the blue”: Julian recommended the tintoralba dulce as a Valentine’s gift. A bit later AT LONG LAST was published. A very sportive title for the post, by the way! (Oh Julian, about the photo, how did you do it? It looks kind of arty)
Was it worth waiting? Yes, for me as an exporter it was. I may have taken Julian more time to give his comments on our wines. I don’t know if it always takes that much time to have the tasting notes ready. I suppose not. But having agreed to publish them made it probably more of a burden. Running a blog can be a time consuming hobby. And it will take some time to get the right skills. I’ve been reading copy blogger for a year know, and I’m still doing about everything wrong.
The interesting part of it is that we should do these kind of things more often with more importers: in this way anybody who’s interested in our wines will be able to search for opinions from other importers on Tintoralba. If I was an importer (as I used to be when I worked when I was living in the Netherlands) I would love to read this kind of information. It gives you a pretty good idea of the wines and the producer as well.
I’m asking myself this question: could the post AT LONG LAST by Julian be the reason for any importer out there to contact me? I sure hope so.
What about our relation with Bubble Brothers? We don’t know each other personally, we have never even phoned (Am I a lousy exporter or what?). I do hope to meet Julian during the next London Wine Fair. And not only to tell him that Tintoralba would love the Bubble Brothers to be a future client, but also to thank Julian personally as a fellow blogger.
If you are an importer of wines and you have a blog, do what Julian did or invent something new. We’re always open to new things. Don’t hesitate, contact Tintoralba, the first cooperative blog in the world (I like to believe we are the first cooperative blog, can somebody please confirm we are!)
Un saludo from the Tintoralba team
- Emilio
Tintoralba crece/ Tintoralba grows
April 17th, 2008Ya han empezado las obras de ampliación de Tintoralba. 2.400 nuevos metros cuadrados para las nuevas instalaciones de Sala de Crianza, Embotelladora, Sala de Catas, Tienda, Almacén, Oficinas, Sala de juntas y Salón de actos.
Si todo sale según lo previsto, para finales de año disfrutaremos ya de todo ello. Os iremos informando.
Finally, Tintoralba’s winery will have a new building. The new 3 store building has 2400 m2 for the bottle line, a tasting room, shop, storage room, offices and a meeting room. Bodegas Tintoralba should be ready by the end of 2008. We keep you informed!
Yes, we found an importer in the UK! - ¡Encontramos importador en el Reino Unido!
April 1st, 2008We are very happy to announce that the wines of Bodegas Tintoralba finally has come to an agreement with Raymond Reynolds (www.raymondreynolds.co.uk) to be our first importer in the U.K.
Nos alegramos de comunicaros que finalmente hemos cerrado un acuerdo con la empresa Raymond Reynolds para que represente nuestros vinos por primera vez en el Reino Unido.
Our Export Manager, Emilio Sáez (left) with Danny Cameron, Raymond Reynolds’ Sales& Marketing Director (right) at the last Wines from Spain Fair in London.
Nuestro Export Manager, Emilio Sáez (izquierda) con Danny Cameron, Sales & Marketing Director de Raymond Reynolds (derecha) en la última feria de Wines from Spain en Londres.
HIGUERUELA 2007 - BACCHUS DE ORO 08 / GOLD BACCHUS 08
March 25th, 2008
Estamos de enhorabuena. Nuestro joven 100% Garnacha Tintorera, HIGUERUELA 07 ha obtenido el BACCHUS DE ORO en el VIII Concurso Internacional de Vinos Bacchus 08 que ha tenido lugar en Madrid del 14 al 18 de Marzo.
El Bacchus de Oro se otorga a los vinos que obtienen una puntuación entre 90-95 sobre 100 puntos en la cata a ciegas realizada por un jurado internacional, organizado por la Unión Española de Catadores.
De nuevo nuestros vinos sorprenden por su increible relación calidad/precio.
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We feel pretty excited to have won the Gold Bacchus with our young 100% Garnacha Tintorera, HIGUERUELA 07, at the 8th International Bacchus Wine Competition 2008 which took placed in Madrid on March 14th to the 18th.
The Gold Bacchus is given to wines which score between 90-95 on a 100 point scale in a blind tasting carried out by an international jury and organized by the Unión Española de Catadores (Spanish Wine Tasters Union).
The judges were surprised by our wine’s incredible quality/ price ratio, and to be perfectly honest, we’re very happy they were!
Cheers,
Tintoralba
Tintoralba’s Wine Bloggers Dinner - Success!!!
March 13th, 2008
Thank you for coming to the first wine bloggers dinner in Spain, and thanks you for writing about it talking about it, posting it etc etc on your wine blogs, food blogs and wine tourism blogs. You all made this event a big succes. Enjoy the photos Robert McIntosh made: WINE BLOGGERS DINNER PHOTOS
As the export manager of Tintoralba I just hope that many wineries in Spain and outside Spain will follow this example. Apart from all the contacts we made, it was above all a very fun event.
Let’s hope that in the future every big wine event will have a parallel wine bloggers meetup. Only a few weeks ago the initiative of Ryan “Catavino” Opaz was born in February 2008. Tintoralba decided to sponsor it and and viral marketing and the blogs did the rest. Especially the posts at the social networks of Turismo 2.0 and theOpen Wine Consortium.
And if it wasn’t for that brilliant mistake we made a registering our winery too late for a stand at the Alimentaria fair, we would not be able to look back on this unique wine bloggers event. Sometimes errors can lead to successes!
This time the wine bloggers dinner was held in Barcelona because of Alimentaria, but who knows what is going to happen at Prowein in Düsseldorf, or at the IWSF in London, or at Vinitaly in Italy, and what about the Hong Kong Vinexpo, and next year at the Bordeaux Vinexpo? Just a few possibilities for any winery to organize a wine bloggers event. Which wineries will take the next step?
Thanks to the people behind the following blogs/websites like Olaf Uno Mas, Pilarvi, Abadia Retuerta, Bodegas Valdrinal, The Wine Conversation, Excel Wines, Solymer Asia, Manfatta, Guild of European Business Travel Agents, Lightening Source and many more bloggers who couldn’t make it. You all made this first wine bloggers dinner a big succes.
See you at the next one!!!
- Emilio Saez van Eerd, and bodegas Tintoralba
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