Wine Lectures, Speaking Engagements and Tutored Tastings
Robin Blackburne, M.W.
Robin Blackburne was educated in England and later at Bordeaux University.
He spent eight years in the London Wine trade and passed the daunting Master of Wine Exam, http://www.masters-of-wine.org
He moved to Bermuda to found the Bristol Cellar, which became the country’s leading wine merchant and which he headed for some 20 years.
He established Robin Blackburne Ltd, a firm of International Wine Consultants - and Chateau Investments, a wine investment firm.
He has visited the vineyards of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Corsica, Madeira, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and South Africa.
He has presented tastings and lectured extensively on wine throughout the U.S.A. and Europe and has conducted Wine Auctions for Charity in New York, Aspen and Bermuda.
He has also been retained as an on-board enrichment lecturer for Royal Viking Lines, Silver Sea and Norwegian Cruise Lines.
He has visited the vineyards of Bordeaux some forty times and is considered a so-called world “expert” on the wines of Bordeaux.
He has judged at several wine events, most recently as a senior Wine Judge at the prestigious California State Fair in Sacramento.
He is the author of Vintage Versage, a collection of Comic Wine Verse - and writes articles on wine for Magazines.
He is the inventor and designer of the Blackburne Tennis Racquet http://www.BlackburneDS.com, and the ViniCool, found in the homes of millions of wine lovers around the world.
He conceived, developed and is the publisher of “Winery Directories.com” http://www.WineryDirectories.com - the Internet’s most comprehensive winery directory - listing and linking some ten thousand wineries worldwide. He is the architect and designer of the Arembis Search Engine http://www.Arembis.com which powers Winery Directories.com and other portals and is the technology behind the recently launched Arembis Restaurant Wine-List-specific Website search application. The same engine powers the Wine Merchant Wine List search application.
Mr. Blackburne’s wine talks are informative, amusing and entertaining. He may be reached to discuss tastings, speaking engagements, magazine articles, auctioneering or wine judging at:
Tel 1 441 292 2670 or Email Blackburne@northrock.bm
Robin Blackburne was educated in England and later at Bordeaux University.
He spent eight years in the London Wine trade and passed the daunting Master of Wine Exam, http://www.masters-of-wine.org
He moved to Bermuda to found the Bristol Cellar, which became the country’s leading wine merchant and which he headed for some 20 years.
He established Robin Blackburne Ltd, a firm of International Wine Consultants - and Chateau Investments, a wine investment firm.
He has visited the vineyards of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Corsica, Madeira, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and South Africa.
He has presented tastings and lectured extensively on wine throughout the U.S.A. and Europe and has conducted Wine Auctions for Charity in New York, Aspen and Bermuda.
He has also been retained as an on-board enrichment lecturer for Royal Viking Lines, Silver Sea and Norwegian Cruise Lines.
He has visited the vineyards of Bordeaux some forty times and is considered a so-called world “expert” on the wines of Bordeaux.
He has judged at several wine events, most recently as a senior Wine Judge at the prestigious California State Fair in Sacramento.
He is the author of Vintage Versage, a collection of Comic Wine Verse - and writes articles on wine for Magazines.
He is the inventor and designer of the Blackburne Tennis Racquet http://www.BlackburneDS.com, and the ViniCool, found in the homes of millions of wine lovers around the world.
He conceived, developed and is the publisher of “Winery Directories.com” http://www.WineryDirectories.com - the Internet’s most comprehensive winery directory - listing and linking some ten thousand wineries worldwide. He is the architect and designer of the Arembis Search Engine http://www.Arembis.com which powers Winery Directories.com and other portals and is the technology behind the recently launched Arembis Restaurant Wine-List-specific Website search application. The same engine powers the Wine Merchant Wine List search application.
Mr. Blackburne’s wine talks are informative, amusing and entertaining. He may be reached to discuss tastings, speaking engagements, magazine articles, auctioneering or wine judging at:
Tel 1 441 292 2670 or Email Blackburne@northrock.bm
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Robin Blackburne - Wine Judge at the California State Fair, Sacramento |
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Tasting at the State Fair, Sacramento |
