Thank you so much to all those who came to the recent London Bloggers Christmas gathering at Ember, and who took the time to write their thoughts about the wines and link back to the wineries who generously provided the wines to taste.

Here is a list of all the reactions to the event that I could locate (including those who didn’t link to the wineries) that also linked back to this site – who knows what else happened out there (let me know!)?

Miss Geeky – Not too late! keep up the efforts, and great to chat to you

>Re:Photo – thanks for the photos and the comments on the videos.

Wadds’ tech pr blog – thanks for the review, hope you liked the presentation

Timinator – glad you like the Vivanco white rioja

Caroline’s Miscellany – thank you so much for your thoughts on wine and particularly for the wine facts of London

A Yankee in London – thanks for the kind words on the presentation, great to see you again

Chris Gilmour’s Diary Vol. 14 – greetings from the short chap on the stool 🙂

Fake Plastic Noodles – shame you didn’t get to try more of the wines, but thanks for the nice comments, and for your support

Jazamatazz – thanks for tasting your first sherry!

Tony Scott – looking forward to our wine/beer/cider tasting in the near future

Chris Reed – ginger and proud – glad you are hooked on the events, and hope you enjoyed your bottle of CVP

Londonist – always great to get a mention on this site, and thanks for the photos Chris!

The process was to award a “virtual ticket” for each link to a winery blog involved in the tasting, and many were generous enough include links to all the wineries as well as some specific links of their favourites. We are all very thankful for your support.

In all 62 tickets were placed in the draw which offers a pretty good chance of winning, but the ultimate and sole winner* of a case of 6 bottles of Dinastia Vivanco Crianza (offered by me, but through my Rioja winery blog at thirstforrioja.co.uk) is …

Caroline’s Miscellany

Caroline, if you would drop me a line with your address at [email protected] (or through a comment on this site), I’ll arrange for the wines to be delivered to you asap for you to enjoy. Congratulations!

Thank you again to all the wonderful London Bloggers who participated, to Andy Bargery who allowed me to sponsor this event, to the wineries who provided their wines, my mum & dad (etc.), and finally to those who read this blog and make it fun to write about wine and help to share the love of wine.

* in case you were wondering, I gave everyone an entry in a spreadsheet for each link (up to 8, one for each winery), then assigned each “ticket” a random value from 1-100, sorted on this basis & numbering each entry, then picked a number between 1 & 62. The winning ticket was #16

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