World Wine Tour 2010: New Zealand! from Nancy O'Mallon on Vimeo.

2 young travelers
15+ countries
300+ wineries
150,000 for charity

World Wine Tour 2010:Australia! from Nancy O'Mallon on Vimeo.

2 young travelers
15+ countries
300+ wineries
150,000 for charity

Dragon Seal Winery Museum of Chinese Winemaking

Our World Wine Tour 2010 travelers have most recently been visiting different regions of China. In this podcast you will hear about Grace vineyards, the Fengshou winery, the Dragon Seal Winery, and it’s museum of Chinese wine making. You will also learn more about their recent trip to Laos and about their insights about the Lao Rehabilitation Foundation.

Dragon Seal Winery guide & Anja of WWT2010

Until today we’ve talked with one half of the World Wine Tour team, however in this podcast you will meet the other half of the World Wine Tour 2010 team, Georges Janssens.

Dragon Seal Winery guide & Georges of WWT2010

Listen here: Georges March 2

Anja in Laos

Today we are catching up with Anja of the World Wine Tour 2010 and talking with her about their recent visit to the Lao Rehabilitation Foundation.

Flower ceremony

The Lao Rehabilitation Foundation is a charity that works on a variety of projects, from caring for a school for blind children, to operating medical missions in remote areas, to building schools and clinics, and to bringing medical supplies into the country. The proceeds from the funds raised by the World Wine Tour 2010 will go to help rebuild a school destroyed by massive flooding of the Mekong River in 2008.

Repairing desks

Listen here: World Wine Tour March 2010

Professor Fagen had been invited specifically to work with the agriculture coops there and to help them better understand food safety requirements. While there, he also planned to attend China’s first ever Blueberry Festival. China has been raising wild blueberries in northeast region of the country for the last 6 or 7 years, and this was their official opening. According to Fagen, a much smaller and more fragmented cultivated blueberry industry also exists in China.

In an email, Professor Fagen shared details about the photograph (seen above) and a little about his journey:

“Aside from the 2 hour flight from Beijing followed by a 12 hour train journey, it was very interesting. I am attaching a photo of me presenting your video to Song Xibin, Secretary of Committee Commissioner (think regional mayor). “

The Mighty Humble Blueberry is about how the cultivated blueberry industry was created and expanded nearly 100 years ago and it has been an honor for us to share the story with the people of the emerging wild blueberry industry in China. Read a recent review about this documentary here.

To learn about the Chinese Blueberry Conference and Festival and more, listen here:

Chinese Blueberry Conference & Festival

Anja & Georges of the World Wine Tour 2010

Anja & Georges of the World Wine Tour 2010 are currently in China, and it marks their second stop on an extraordinary wine-trek that is taking them around the globe.

Siberian Express Sunset

Legenda Kryma

To bring you up to speed, here are some of the things they have seen and learned on their journey so far:

• Red Square in Moscow is a magical place of tsars and revolutions with a surreal look of mystery. The tsars where the first to bring wine to Moscow in the 17th century.
• 80% of sparkling wines consumed in Russia are from home soil and the rest is imported from Ukraine.
• Many of these Ukrainian wines come from the Krim region of the country, which is what brought Anja & Georges to visit Legenda Kryma Importers in Moscow.
• Anja & Georges are proud to say they have collected the first 3 bottles toward the auction!

Listen here to about their adventure in Moscow:

WWT-CHINA

To learn more visit their blog at www.worldwinetour2010.com

Let the World Wine Tour 2010 begin… from Nancy O’Mallon on Vimeo.