say, show and share to SELL...... WINE

#winelovers

Selling wine is much more than finding a wine shop, restaurant, distributor, importer, retailer, supermarket or marketplace operating a B2B or B2C strategy, it is a P2P experience. It has always been, and it will always be. Besides all new technologies, selling wine is personal, so personal that I would even say it is individual.

Of course, I am not talking here about wine tourism or about grabbing a nice good value bottle on the self of a supermarket. Even that basic wine, it had a first approach person to person before it went on the shelf, as I have experienced.

New trends indicate that millennials buy more wine online each day but we cannot forget that they also go out for eating and having a glass of wine with friends, the offline version.

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So, when it comes to really “sell wine”, a producer, winemaker, brand ambassador or seller must be a wine entertainer and focus on attracting the person´s attention by telling tips, stories, special characteristics and explain the soul of the liquid element. 

If we fail to connect Person to Person, selling our wines will be a hard task. Even if the wine has undergone through a traditional or modern elaboration technique, vineyards were being brought up as own children or premises were state-of-the-art all these efforts will lay down in obscurity, not to mention the sacred MARKETING ROI.

Cheers!!

That´s why wine events and fairs hardly will disappear. In wine, there is a mystic, a human factor that cannot be “replaced” by machines. Different matters are placing orders and logistics. In that sense e-commerce, shops online, marketplaces are the future and present. 

So, never stop nurturing your wine curiosity.

...because life taste better with wine!! Cheers!!

Hoy, 20 años! Today, 20 years!

Just for pleasure or work I have had the great chance to visit more than 40 countries across the five continents. Being quite young, in 1979, I started to go abroad in order to study English. Later on, I did my Senior Year in U.S.A. at the Andover High School in Massachussets. Once back to Spain, I started my Marketing studies at a private school in Zaragoza, my home town and kept studying Internatioanl Trade, French and Italian. All this took me five years and in 1990 back again to Spain, I started to look for an interesting and good job where I could develop my studies, strenghts and potential.

Then in 1991, I contacted many companies and did many enterviews in different cities but I ended up in Zaragoza, working four years as marketing assistant at a Department Store. It was 1994 when the economic situation in Spain was weak and many companies had to shut down, mine did so I was out.

So, in 1995 I decided that I wanted to work in the international wine business. After several meetings, I moved to Vitoria to work with a group of nine wineries from Rioja Alavesa. Almost five years working, promoting, selling their wines in many countries...what an International Wine Master!

Now in 2011, I keep working in the international wine business and looking for and forward new challenges and projects.....So, today April 1st, 2011 is my 20th anniversary as a worker. For that, I congratulate myself!!

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Por trabajo o por placer he tenido la gran fortuna de haber estado en más de 40 países de los 5 continentes. Esto es así porque empecé joven a salir al extranjero para aprender inglés. Luego seguiría un curso escolar (C.O.U.) en U.S.A. y de ahí en adelante dirigí mis estudios hacia "lo internacional" y el marketing. Corría 1985...y se me abrió la mente de tal manera que no lo pude (mejor, no quise) evitar.

Y así me formé en Marketing, Publicidad, Empresa, Comercio Internacional e idiomas. Una vez de regreso a España, en 1991, me puse a trabajar en el departamento de marketing de unos grandes almacenes locales, en Zaragoza, pero también llegaron momentos duros y cerraron.

Y en 1995, llegaría el Sector Vitivinícola por decisión propia. Me fui a Vitoria para trabajar en un grupo de nueve bodegas de Rioja Alavesa donde aprendí mucho del mundo del vino, fue como un Master Internacional de Vino!

Hoy 1 de abril de 2011, sigo trabajando en el sector del vino, buscando nuevos retos y proyectos. Y por eso me felicito, por cumplir 20 años como trabajadora!!

Enoturismo por Burdeos / Bordeaux Wine Tour (France)

Uno de los primeros viajes de ENOTURISMO que coordiné -como "Wine Tour Manager" - fué por la zona vitivinícola de BURDEOS, en el Sur de Francia.
Afamada zona donde las haya, nos mostró todo su encanto y esplendor en primavera. Visitamos las "Appelations" más conocidas y representativas. Practicamente cada pueblecito es una "Appellation d´origine contrôlée": Margaux, Paulliac, Saint-Emilion, Sauternes, etc....y no, no todos los vinos de "Burdeos" son iguales. La variedad es tan inmensa!.

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