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A Roadtrip like Clockwork – Discovering Orange

Have you ever tried a wine from Orange, in central NSW? This region produces fantastic cool-climate wines that are on high rotation at our house. Maybe you’ve heard of some of the bigger producers like Cumulus’s Climbing and Rolling labels or Phillip [...]

By | April 17th, 2013|Out and about|0 Comments

Time to celebrate women in wine

Female-focused wine events polarise everyone, both in and outside of the wine industry. The conversation on social media channels over recent weeks has demonstrated just how divided people are about events like the Fabulous Ladies’ Wine Society Women [...]

By | April 15th, 2013|Wine|2 Comments

An Easter road trip through Central NSW

Australians can be parochial, but when it comes to exploring our own backyard we’re often neglect what’s on our doorstep and travel further afield. We’ve been guilty of that of late and so we decided that the Easter break was a perfect excuse to head [...]

By | April 14th, 2013|Out and about|1 Comment

Redefining Leadership in Australian Wine

This article appeared in the March 2013 Edition of Australia's WBM Wine Business Magazine. “ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Q. Adams  One often hears the term ‘leadership’ an [...]

By | March 19th, 2013|Wine|1 Comment

Hanging out in the Hunter Valley… with Kids

Once upon a time weekend escapes to the wine regions of Australia were the top of our destination list. My husband, friends and I loved to spend all day sitting tasting wines, talking to the cellar door staff or winemakers and eating out at the regio [...]

By | March 6th, 2013|Out and about|4 Comments

Decoding facebook’s Promotional Guidelines

We’ve all seen brands on facebook make claims on their pages “first five people to comment will win a free bottle of wine” or “share this photo to win.’ Promotions on facebook are a great way of building engagement with fans and growing the number of [...]

By | July 12th, 2012|Social Media, Social Media 101, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Facebook introduces Page Administrator Roles

If you’re the Administrator of a facebook page you may have noticed that there’s new levels of permission for posting content on your fan page. Page admins can have 5 different roles, each with different abilities: Manager: All content creator powers [...]

By | June 1st, 2012|Social Media 101|0 Comments

The “Anything But Chardonnay” Days are long gone… time to rediscover this fabulous varietal.

It’s not long to go until the Third Annual Chardonnay day on 24 May, 2012. It’s the perfect excuse to be exploring the range of great Chardonnay styles being made across the world, and particularly across Australia and New Zealand. According to Winem [...]

By | May 16th, 2012|Social Media, Wine Marketing|0 Comments

Why Pinning is all the craze: Understanding Pinterest

By Helen Kruger (@Lanikruger) There is little doubt that Pinterest http://pinterest.com/ is THE social media network of 2012. Suddenly it’s in every social media blog, is creeping into Facebook feeds and has been touted as the new social media addict [...]

By | April 18th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments

What’s all the buzz about Instagram about?

There’s been lots of hype this week over Facebook’s $1billion acquisition of the 2-year-old photo sharing application Instagram. Whether the price tag is justified, this is one app to look further into. It’s been the #1 downloaded app on the apple is [...]

By | April 13th, 2012|App Reviews, Social Media|0 Comments