
After reading this article, who here is going to become a Port "ambassador" on January 27th and try to win the


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Should that date be Jan 27th as per here or is that page wrong? (July would allow more time to arrange something significant ofc, so would be useful to know)Roy Hersh wrote:In the newsletter that just hit mailboxes 24 hours ago, there was an announcement about a world wide effort to promote Port, especially using new media, which is EXACTLY what some of our greatest threads in the past six months have been about. So here is an INTERNATIONAL #Port Day effort spurred on by the Center for Wine Origins, which is going out on a limb to push the Port agenda.![]()
After reading this article, who here is going to become a Port "ambassador" on July 27th and try to win thecontest?
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Tut tut - you'd miss out on a LOT of good bottles of port if you followed that advice!In the penultimate paragraph [url=http://www.wineorigins.com/?p=1505]here[/url], Center for Wine Origins wrote:When shopping for Port and entering the contest, make sure to look for the seal of the approval and confirm that the wine comes from Portugal.
Yeah I'm guess that Roy's 100-point 1896 Dow VP didn't have a seal of approval on it!Rob C. wrote:Tut tut - you'd miss out on a LOT of good bottles of port if you followed that advice!In the penultimate paragraph [url=http://www.wineorigins.com/?p=1505]here[/url], Center for Wine Origins wrote:When shopping for Port and entering the contest, make sure to look for the seal of the approval and confirm that the wine comes from Portugal.
It is also hard to tell what the Center for Wine Origins are themselves doing. Beyond the announcement on their website, the (US-only) ipad competition, and making leaflets available on request, is there any active promotion of this day being done by them? (the website refers to information for organised retail and restaurant tastings "coming soon"...)Roy Hersh wrote:It is odd that the Port trade does not seem to be embracing or helping to promote this event for the Center for Wine Origins.
Ok - this is fair enough - i did not appreciate this.Roy Hersh wrote:
I found out about this event because the Center for Wine Origins did send out an email to the wine trade here in the USA which was distributed far and wide from what I am aware of. So, I do believe they are very involved in spreading the word to the "gatekeepers" rather than directly to consumers.