September 2, 2005

french freebie

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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

8 Responses to “french freebie”

  1. michel v says:

    Hurray for zee french free­bee!
    My nip­ples explode with delight!

  2. martha says:

    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.)

  3. Thomas says:

    End of the Year, times a was­ting Hugh :-)

  4. Jozef Imrich says:

    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

  5. Richard says:

    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…

  6. hugh macleod says:

    Yeah Richard, Canada would be a cool.

  7. Erin says:

    WOuld love to be in on the US freebie …

  8. Thom says:

    “[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!