Last evening I received a DHL package from Domenico. It was a pretty heavy one. He had packed up every bit of sales material, all the show guides and so forth, that he could get his hands on at Vinitaly and the "fringe" events. Plus all his detailed notes and a DVD of the pictures he'd taken. I have to say, having all this stuff in hand is better than just getting a series of "disembodied" emails. And I'm sorry I ever thought that he was less than in gamba. (On the ball.)
Paper and plastic weren't what made the package heavy, though. Dom also sent over two bottles of the Le Fonti 2006 olive oil, which the people there told him was better than 2005 (damned good anyway). And from Susanna Crociani, from her Tuscan azienda and agriturismo ("country estate" is an appropriate translation for that fairly ugly word agriturismo), a Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 1999 Riserva and her wonderful Vinsanto (1997). They need to settle down for a while before I open them; I'm eager to drink these wines since they have a few years' bottle age on them.
The next part is in Italian because it concerns wine bloggers who write in that language.
La prossima parte e' in italiano giacche' ha da fare con blogger italiani che scrivono in italiano.
Domenico ha conosciuto un sacco di bloggers nuovi (nuovi per lui e qualche volta per me). Ho gli URL di queste brave persone, fra cui sono Maria Grazia, Luk, e altri bloggers gia' conosciuti da me.
Ecco un elenco piu' o meno completo dei "nuovi" copiato dal sito del Messer Aristide:
Stefano Berti (blog aziendale Stefano Berti), i fratelli Ingrosso (Vino24.TV Blog), Lorenzo Lombardi e Massimiliano Perbellini (Wineplanet.it), Mirco Mariotti (Blog & Wine), Maria Grazia Melegari (Soavemente... ), e Luca Risso (TheWineBlog.net). I collegamenti saranno subito sono nel blogroll di mondosapore.
Due simpatichissime bloggers, Lizzy di VinoPigro e Maria Grazia di Soavemente...
IWG sez you are on his black list
so you get to Italy and convive exclusivamente
with the Italian bloggers...Hmmm...big snob you are to your american networkers...
Posted by: Beatrice Russo | April 06, 2007 at 06:22 PM
Mah! Era Domenico che lo ha snobbato! Che c'entro io?
E cara Bea, Mimmo m'ha detto che IWG andava in giro e non era mai dove gli aveva detto che sarebbe. "Ti vedro' al padiglione Sicilia." Vabbe', Mimmo va li'. Niente IWG. Minghia!
So there.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | April 06, 2007 at 06:26 PM
whatever
Posted by: Beatrice Russo | April 06, 2007 at 06:50 PM
boh
Posted by: Terry Hughes | April 06, 2007 at 06:52 PM