Welcome to Episode 4 "The Old Vine Registry: one year on" on The Old Vine Conference podcast. Today’s episode is a special webinar featuring Sarah Abbott MW and Alder Yarrow. Together they discuss the The Old Vine Registry and the Heritage Vine Hunt Contest.
The Registry is the world’s first crowdsourced global database of living historic vineyard sites. The Old Vine Registry is a grassroots, volunteer effort inspired and begun by wine critic Jancis Robinson and several of her colleagues. In 2010 she and writer Tamlyn Currin began compiling a registry of old vines, triggered by a growing sense that these old vineyards were important elements of cultural and scientific heritage as well as the source of some particularly beautiful wine.The purpose of the Old Vine Registry has evolved over the years. Today it is intended to be a valuable tool for wine lovers, winegrowers and the wine trade alike.
The prizes for this contest have been generously sponsored by: Wine Scholar Guild, JancisRobinson.Com, Académie du Vin Library, Vinous, The World of Fine Wine and The Old Vine Conference
The Old Vine Conference is a non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding old vines of qualitative, cultural and ecological value, by connecting, educating and inspiring the global wine industry through conferences, research, workshops, partnerships, tastings, field-trips and more!
To learn more about The Old Vine Conference, please visit us at www.oldvines.org and follow us on instagram: @ouroldvines.
More about Alder Yarrow:
In late 2003, Vinography founder Alder Yarrow created one of the first wine blogs, pioneering the field after realizing there were no such resources available. Hailed by San Francisco Magazine as "The Wine World’s Brightest Cyberstar," Alder has spoken at numerous wine events globally and has been contributing as a columnist for Jancis Robinson's website since 2011. He authored the award-winning book "The Essence of Wine" and contributed to "Opus Vino." In 2013, he was inducted into the Wine Media Guild of New York’s Wine Writer’s Hall of Fame. Alder graduated from Stanford, studied at Oxford, and resides in Oakland, California with his family.
To learn more about Speaker, Alder Yarrow:
Website: https://www.vinography.com/about
Twitter: https://x.com/vinography
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinography/
More about today’s moderator, Sarah Abbott MW:
Sarah Abbott MW is co-founder of The Old Vine Conference and the director of marketing agency Swirl Wine Group, she has worked in the wine industry for 25 years. Her interest in ancient varieties and the origins of wine is long-standing. She works with generic and national wine bodies, advising them on how to communicate their shared identity and increase their collective brand value.
To learn more about Sarah Abbott MW visit:
website: www.oldvines.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-abbott-mw-45602a4/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahabbottmw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swirlwinegroup/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahabbottmw/