Hong Kong: 27 May 2011
Our charity auction just happened in Hong Kong. The results are in and are incredible, we ourselves are left speechless. The bottles collected during the World Wine Tour 2010, all shown on our bottles collected page, raised 500,000 USD FOR CHARITY!!!!!!
We owe so many thanks to everyone participating in the project, from the sponsors who made it possible, to the vintners donating their wines, to all followers reading along with our journey. Especially, we owe many thanks to the Hong Kong and China community, from the tremendous help we received in organizing the event, to the immense generosity given while bidding for the wines. It was an event never to forget, and we will be writing more about it soon, with details! For now, Half a Million dollars collected for charity is all we will say, and thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks!
Germany: 10 January – 15 January 2011 Sneaking into 2011 with our January visit, our ‘2010’ tour of vineyards for charity wine donations proudly ended with the home of ice-wine, the eighth largest wine producer, and the fourth largest consumer … Continue reading →
Italy: 16 December – 24 December 2010 Home to some of the absolute oldest wine-producing regions in the world and with over 1 million vineyards under cultivation, we came to Italy, the second largest wine producer in the world (right … Continue reading →
France: 1 December – 15 December 2010 A 13th century press, from Laroche in Burgundy, a testament to the ancient and traditional practice of winemaking in France. Winemaking is thought to have come to France in the Roman times, over … Continue reading →
Spain: 21 November – 29 November 2010 Continuing with the help of Catavino, the Iberian Peninsula experts, we entered the realm of the most widely planted wine producing nation in the world: Spain. Though low yields and wide spacing rows … Continue reading →
Portugal: 12 November – 20 November 2010 Porto, as viewed from the Yeatman Hotel We had just spent 9 and a half months traveling through the length and breadth of the New World of Wine, and Portugal would become our … Continue reading →
Uruguay: 29 October – 10 November 2010 If you keep eastwards and trace a line from the popular viticultural areas of Chile and Argentina, you will inevitably come across the latitude where Uruguay‘s vines also thrive. Bounded by the River … Continue reading →
Argentina: 13 October – 28 October 2010 A typical Mendoza style irrigation (here seen at Viña Cobos) Just a simple bus crossing over from Santiago the Capital of Chile brought us to Argentina’s capital of wine: Mendoza. Located in the … Continue reading →
Chile: 22 September – 13 October 2010 We continue now again in the Central Valley, in Curico and Cachapoal, and then travel to the Aconcagua greater region by visiting Casa Blanca, San Anthonio, and the Aconcagua sub region itself! We … Continue reading →
Chile: 22 September – 13 October 2010 There is an unmistakable feeling when you enter Chile that tragedy struck the country at dawn on February 27th 2010. Indeed, a size 8.9 earthquake reduced many areas to rubble and a tsunami … Continue reading →
