September 2, 2005
french freebie

The Irish Blogger’s Wine Freebie should be going out late next week. Please be watching your mailboxes in about 7 – 10 day’s time.
Meanwhile, we are gearing up to extend the freebie thing to France in October.
French bloggers getting South African wine. Should be interesting.
No, we’re not expecting to sell a lot wine in France. They already have plenty of their own, which they are rightly very fond of. But setting our low-budget marketing plan against their massive “Appelation d’Origine Contr








Hurray for zee french freebee!
My nipples explode with delight!
I love the thought of the US freebie.…(I found you through Laren of Sweet Blog O’Mine– I write about drinking for Gothamist among other places, too.)
End of the Year, times a wasting Hugh
Rather interesting in many ways are wine quotations that led me up “paths of knowledge” as Hugh Johnson writes:
“The scope of the subject of wine is never ending, [as indeed,] so many other subjects lie within its boundaries. Without geography and topography it is incomprehensible; without history it is colorless; without taste it is meaningless; without travel it remains unreal. It embraces botany, chemistry, agriculture, carpentry, economics
We Canadians may be thought of as beer drinkers more than wine drinkers, but try to keep us in mind in your marketing blitz with these guys…
Yeah Richard, Canada would be a cool.
WOuld love to be in on the US freebie …
“[UNITED STATES:] We’re hoping to roll out the US Blogger’s Wine Freebie by the end of the year. Looking forward etc.”
That’s what I’ve been waiting to hear!