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Twitter (and Wine) Meetup in Lisbon. Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Wednesday July 1st there’s going to be a special Twitter meetup that will join 2 cool crowds. Tweeps from Twittlis and Twinelis!

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The event will take place between 7pm and 10pm and Sala Ogival de Lisboa (map). Anyone can come. No signup is necessary so you can just join us there. However you can lets us know your’re coming.

Join us at the beautiful Sala Ogival in Lisbon where you’ll have the opportunity to try some of the best Portuguese wines and cheeses. Note: It will cost €5 per person.

See you there!

June 30, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Leave a Comment 

A weekend away in the Alentejo

It’s been long time since I booked a weekend away from home. I’ve been travelling frequently but always to attend a conference or a business meeting. This time it was for pure pleasure.

It all started with a fantastic Friday night summer concert looking at the beautiful Cortes de Cima vineyard and followed by a nice dinner in Beja with good friends and good wine.


The silence of the Cortes de Cima Vineyard

We stayed in the Pousada Beja Hotel, a former 13th century Franciscan Convent located in the heart of the historical centre of Beja and full of historic character and convent-like peace.

Saturday we drove to Alcácer do Sal passing through many small villages located somewhere in the middle of the Alentejo wine region. Beautiful vineyards, gorgeous small white-painted houses and a temperature of 38ºC completely correspond to what you can expect of this wonderful region in the south of Portugal.


All pictures from the weekend on Flickr.

In Alcácer do Sal we stayed in a small boutique hotel called Albergaria Ordem de Santiago just in front of the Sado river and looking over the many rice fields. Lots of small restaurants where you can eat plenty of local dishes. A perfect place for a 2 day getaway and only 60km from Lisbon.

From Alcácer do Sal there are several ways to reach Lisbon. After Praia da Comporta and next to Tróia there’s a very efficient Ferry service (my pictures here) that takes you and your car to Setúbal, just south of Lisbon (journey takes around 30 minutes).

I returned from the weekend more relaxed, full of energy and with some of lines of thought better organized than when I started the weekend. I should definitely do this more often.

June 1, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 Comment 

Gary Vaynerchuck on the Alentejo Wine Region

Gary Vaynerchuk does another exciting show about wines from the Alentejo. Gary is really into Portuguese wines and that can only be good.

Of course you can find all the 3 wines on Adegga too: Pera Manca 2006 (white), Esporão Reserva 2006 (red), Vila Santa 2006 (red).

May 20, 2009 | Tags: , , | 2 Comments 

At the London Wine Fair

As I said previously I’ll be spending this week in London to attend the London Wine Fair.

The event includes drinking (more like tasting…) lots of great wine and also hours of hard work promoting the Adegga, Catavino and the European Wine Bloggers Conference (that will happen in Portugal in October)

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Lots of stuff going on this week:

  • I’ll be at ViniPortugal’s stand most of the event. Look for me at stand B20/C20.
  • Together with the Catavino team I’ll be setting up an interesting social media experiment that involves Twitter (of course), a Live video feed and lot of photos. More on this later.
  • Wednesday I’ll make to short presentations at the stand. One about the AVIN (the ISBN for Wine) and one about Social Tasting Notes sites like Adegga.
  • Also on Wednesday I’ll be at the Catavino-co-hosted London Wine and Food Blogger’s Meetup!

If you’re in London please pass by ViniPortugal’s stand (B20/C20) and lets have a glass of wine!

May 10, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment 

Wine in London, Wine in London, Wine in London!

In two weeks I’ll be at the London for Wine Fair where I’ll be able to taste hundreds of wine, talk about Adegga and meet lots of new people. All this in the company of my good friends Ryan and Gabriella from Catavino. Can it get any better?*

The London Wine Fair is one of the biggest wine fairs in the world and is a great opportunity to meet other people in the industry, a couple of wine producers and the occasional wine blogger.

London Wine Fair

I’ll actually be doing two short talks. One about the AVIN (our ISBN for wine) and the why it’s so important to organize wine data and one about social tasting note sites (like Adegga).

Time permitting of courrrrrrse I’ll be doing a lot of walking, bookshop wondering, wine shopping and wagamama procrastinating! Many things to see despite the heavy agenda.

I’ll definitely be coming back to the lovely Philglas & Swiggot wine shop and the inevitable organic food heaven Borough Market


Photo by Ewan-M

* Actually it could. If she was coming with me.

April 28, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments 

VinumCallipole09: Wine tasting in Alentejo

Next Saturday there’s another great opportunity to taste great Portuguese wines in the beautiful wine region of Alentejo

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Organized by João Pedro, the event will happen in the Convento dos Capuchos in Vila Viçosa and starts at 15h and lasts until 20h.

It’s one of the cosiest wine events in Portugal and a really good opportunity to taste good wine, talk to wine producers and meet fellow wine drinkers.

April 28, 2009 | Tags: , , | Leave a Comment 

Chiado After Work

I’m all for a nice get together for a beer or a glass of wine after work (think Twinelis) and with weather being so nice much of the year in Lisbon it is hard for me to understand why we don’t do it more often.

Chiado, one of the most interesting neighbourhoods in Lisbon wants to change that and has launched the Chiado After Work program to get people to get out and enjoy the end of the day more often.

Until May 6th the 18 shops, bars and pubs in the program will be promoting wine tastings, traditional food tastings and live music between 6pm and 9pm everyday.

The 18 places include the Quiosque do Refresco, the Spot at the São Luiz Theather, the Bar at Bairro Alto Hotel, the Chá do Carmo, the Colcci Café, the Kaffeehaus, the Tavares and a couple others.

Chiado in Lisbon
Photo by nfcastro

With so many good restaurants nearby (for example Nood and New Wok) there’s no excuse for not staying longer and enjoy te night.

Also interesting in this program is that all corks will be recycled through the Green Cork program.

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April 11, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments 

Catavino in Lisbon to announce EWBC

Ryan Opaz from Catavino was in Lisbon to announce the next European Wine Bloggers Conference that will take place between 30th Nov and 1st Oct 2009.


Ryan Opaz in Lisbon to announce EWBC from andrerib on Vimeo.

April 8, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments 

Dynamic Wine Labels

Imagine you are in a restaurant or in a wine shop and would like to know more information about a wine you’re thinking of buying. If that wine uses the new Dynamic Wine Labels you’ll be able to use your mobile phone to instantly access lots of useful information about that wine (ratings, notes, prices) directly from the adegga wine community.

We’ve done a nice video demonstrating how it all works:

Dynamic Wine Labels from andrerib on Vimeo.

To make this work we’ve connected three things together: the AVIN our ISBN-like unique wine identifier, the mobile version of adegga and the QRCodes technology.

If you’re interested read the whole post at adegga.

December 7, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments 

Interview about adegga.com @ shift08


Viktoria and her lovely German accent interviewed me at SHiFT while enjoying a nice bottle of Cortes de Cima wine:

André Ribeirinho is all about wine and he wants to share his passion with other people by providing an answer on the always returning question which wine to choose. You want to know how it works and how it integrates your offline-shopping experience, have a look on the demonstration which André provides in the video by bringing QR Codes on wine bottles! For more infos go also to www.adegga.com. André is also co-founder of the shift conference and put in a lot of energy in realizing this event.

Viktoria also interviewed other Portuguese startups:
Interview with Bruno Pedro about tarpipe.com
Interview with Leonardo Xavier about thestartracker.com
Interview with Sergio Veiga about 9idiots and stream19.com
Interview with Eddie Correia and Moses Mehraban about ChamaInc, Buzz and Filmz
Interview with Celso Pinto and Vitor Domingos about handivi.com

Viktoria has been doing a lot of great interviews with startup founders and other interesting projects throughout Europe. You can find all of them on Tiburon-Tv.

November 6, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments 

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    andre_ribeirinho_t.jpg I'm André Ribeirinho, an entrepreneur in Lisbon, Portugal. I'm a co-founder of Adegga.com, an advisor at Tarpipe and an organizer at SHiFT.

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  • my startup

    Adegga - Social Wine Discovery

    Adegga lets you track the wines you are drinking and share your wine discoveries with the community.

  • startups I support

    Tarpipe


    Tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications.

    Yozik


    Yozik is a service that helps artists and labels promote and sell their music directly on their own site, own blog or in a social network.

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