August 10, 2005
blogger’s wine freebie– uk & ireland
Just heard: Stormhoek are now expanding their “Blogger’s Wine Freebie” to the Republic of Ireland. And the British one is still open, so if you haven’t signed up yet, please free to do so.
[Stormhoek Blog here.]
Looks like it’s working. Rock on.
[UPDATE:] To see how other bloggers received their wine freebie, please visit the wiki.
[UPDATE:] Within minutes of posting this, we got our first Irish Blogger to sign up. Thanks, Tom!
[Speaking of Ireland:] There’s a Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble in Ireland, tentativley for the 30th November. If I can, I’ll try to attend. I just set up a wiki for it.
[MEA CULPA:] Technically, the first Irish blogger to get Stormhoek is in fact here. I let him have a bottle during the UK-only part of the promotion in exchange for him sharing the bottle with his Irish wine distributor friend. But I’d forgotten about it till I was reminded again etc.
Too exclusive for me — blogger’s wine freebie
gapingvoid: blogger’s wine freebie
It’s a nice idea, give out a few bottles, get people talking, if the stuff’s any good, you get a strong base to grow a loyal organic market. Being possibly the first company promoting a wine this way, also develops…
No, thank you hugh!
For the wine and the blog dinner wiki,
Cheers
Tom
Found this posting on the Canadian arm of the Australian Wine Society.
http://www.aws.ca/blog/2005/08/wine-for-bloggers.html
You know Tom wasn’t the first Irish Blogger to sign up — I got mine a few weeks ago (mind you I’ve drank it, and really enjoyed it, but have yet to blog anything on it)!
So to any other Irish bloggers — sign-up, it’s actually really nice wine.
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