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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Showing posts with label 2013 Real Wine Fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2013 Real Wine Fair. Show all posts

Friday, 31 May 2013

2013 RAW stats



 Part of the RAW Fair

Attendance figures for the RAW Wine Fair: 19th-20th May

'For those of you who are interested in figures, here’s a breakdown:
 
Like last year, we had over 3000 visits to RAW over the two days, including…


A couple of hundred growers and their vineyard representatives showing the wines of 169 vineyards, as well as a cider producer, an importer of proper sake, a London brewery and a natural tea tasting bar;


923 visits by consumers/wine amateurs/drinkers;

1996 visits by trade individuals, including sommeliers, restaurant owners, wine buyers, importers, etc, some of whom came from far afield;

153 press visitors from around the world.


The above included people from all over the world – including a large contingent of Scandinavians, Americans and Canadians! Thank you for taking the time to cover over and visit. We really appreciate it.'

Figures for the Real Wine Fair in March were: 1500 visitors and 110 wine growers. Add the two together and there were between 4500-5000 visitors to these two natural wine fairs. 


RAW 2014: 18th and 19th May

 




Sunday, 17 March 2013

Real Wine Fair@Tobacco Dock


 
 Simon Woolf looking to identify an aroma...

The wine tasting area@Tobacco Dock

The good news is that the Real Wine Fair 2013 has escaped from last year's awful Hitlerian bunker in Holborn and found a really fine venue at Tobacco Dock. Light and airy with good conditions for tasting, Tobacco Dock looks to be an underused venue. The only bad news is that once again Transport for London has conspired to make access by public transport difficult. For, although the Docklands Light Railway was running today, making Shadwell just a short walk away, the London Overground was severely restricted. Trains were running only from New Cross Gate and Clapham Junction as far as Shadwell with replacement buses filling in the gaps. Under normal conditions the Tobacco Dock is a short walk from Shadwell and Wapping stations.

Looks like someone at Transport for London has had bad experiences with natural wine! Last May the Overground, which would have been ideal for RAW in Brick Lane, didn't run on the Sunday due to maintenance. 

The Real Wine Fair is open to the trade tomorrow from 10am to 6pm. 

     Roberson Pop Up Shop
 

Angelika Deutsch



Jérôme Lenoir (Chinon)

Hervé Villemade, Domaine du Moulin, Cheverny

Sébastien David, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil  

 
Dog taster 
The adjacent food shop

 Selection of bread

 Cheeses

 Crab slider – open sandwiches




 Jamón slicing

 An admirable notion!

 Tina Gellie, Decanter magazine


Another discreet shirt..