February 11, 2006
100 dinners
100 Dinners: 1 May until 9 August 2006
When we launched Stormhoek in the blogosphere last year, we sent out about 100 bottles to bloggers in the UK, Ireland, and France.
Now that we’re launching Stormhoek in the USA in the next month or two, we decided to up the ante.
We like sponsoring geek dinners. We want to do more. Lots more.
Ergo: 100 Geek Dinners in 100 days. Starting in May.
Are you a U.S. blogger? Fancy throwing a geek dinner? Big or small, it doesn’t matter. Let us know and we’ll try to send some complimentary wine your way.
Jason explains more on the Stormhoek blog:
We’ll supply the wine, the bloggers supply the people and the conversation. The events don’t have to be big, or at a fancy place, we imagine that they could be anywhere– a bar, a porch, a beach, park, whatever, so don’t limit yourself to a restaurant.
Sure, we want this to be about bloggers, although anyone who wants to invite a supermodel, rock star or pro athlete along is welcome to do so. We just want the events to be interesting. The local organizer will set the rules for the event, so please use your imagination. As usual, there is no need to blog or post pics about Stormhoek, but we do ask that you email us some pics of the event, because we’d like to have mementos of the dinners, maybe to post later.
You will need to post an idea for a subject for your dinner on the wiki33 Responses to “100 dinners”
Sounds awesome. You can count me down for a shin-dig in Oklahoma City. You tell me what dates are open, and we’ll comply…
can a Canadian event count as ‘american’? are you launching here too?
Liquor laws vary from county to county as I discovered to my cost on a trip in Kentucky but I think there’s a correlation between liberal alcohol laws and acceptance of new ideas so i don’t think you’ll run into too much trouble!
Being a geek has never been so beneficial…
Sounds awesome indeed. We’ll do one here in Mountain Home, AR! Maybe we can schedule it around the timing at OKC so that you guys can visit both places.
Sounds awesome indeed. We’ll do one here in Mountain Home, AR! Maybe we can schedule it around the timing at OKC so that you guys can visit both places.
Sounds awesome indeed. We’ll do one here in Mountain Home, AR! Maybe we can schedule it around the timing at OKC so that you guys can visit both places.
Sounds awesome indeed. We’ll do one here in Mountain Home, AR! Maybe we can schedule it around the timing at OKC so that you guys can visit both places.
Sounds awesome indeed. We’ll do one here in Mountain Home, AR! Maybe we can schedule it around the timing at OKC so that you guys can visit both places.
I second that motion for a Canadian event! We’ll get the word around *before* you launch here…!
If that won’t work…here’s a little pitiful pleading…
pleeeeeeeeeese.… ;^)
Another call to extend this event to what Homer Simpson called ‘America Junior’.
i’d be excited to try some. here are my blog writings on wine:
http://www.enochchoi.com/thoughts/archives/cat_wine.html
palo alto, ca
I am the third Canadian out of 8 commenters to wonder about a Canadian launch. Your readership seems a little skewed!
Still, we’d like to know when Stormhoek is coming here. Thanks!
count me in as another canuck who would like to participate.
count the Central Coast of CA in. My info is in your inbox!
How cool. I have just the place, will have to consider the details.
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VERY COOL ! I’m sure there are plenty of people in the NYC / Connecticut area that would be interested in a “Geek dinner”! Looking forward to seeing how it develops!
count me tooooo! it’s magnificient. I want my wine tooooooooooooo. I love thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
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I’d love to host a dinner in Atlanta, Georgia. I already attend a monthly blogger meetup (that centers around drinking) that would be perfect.
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I’d love to try it. I’m trying to get together a college age (20 something) crowd for dinner parties and I think this is a great idea since free wine might get more people interested. Thanks.
I am a convert from adland and so is my former colleague who is the Robert Parker of the Netherlands. We’d love to get a bunch of people together here in Amsterdam and wonder about the changing rules of the market place while savouring the crispiness of Stormhoek. Thanks!! By the way: Amsterdam counts as U.S. as we founded New York.…
Conman–
email us at info@stormhoek.com and we’ll see if we can organize some wine for Holland.
Jason
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Great party…If I forget to mention it later. Let’s bring it to LA for a real “Beauty and the Geek” event.
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