This exciting new consumer event, hosted by Oz Clarke, Olly Smith and Tim Atkin, a trio of the UK’s liveliest and most entertaining wine personalities. The event will be packed full of exciting wines from all over the world, and there will be a significant Portuguese presence too – keep an eye out for ‘pop up tastings’ which will be taking place throughout the day.

Naked Wines will also offer one lucky visitor a £2,000 expense account to spend on wine and to be their eyes and ears for a month. The winner will be announced before Christmas (after the December tasting).

1. You should come to the tasting armed with a ‘smart’ phone
2. Visit Naked Wines on table 1, and you will be able to download an app.
3. You then taste the wines, record which ones you like and make comments
4. Then the Naked Wines team will see who they think is the most suitable to work for them for a month as their ‘eyes and ears’.

Good luck!

Come and see us on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and in Manchester at the MOSI Museum on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October.

For more information visit www.threewinemen.co.uk or book tickets at www.wegottickets.com

Picture of Joao Brito e Cunha with the ViniPortugal and Naked Wines archangels in the Douro

Naked Wines is currently promoting some new Portuguese wines on their MarketPlace platform, from oenologist Joao Brito e Cunha.

By the time you read this story, hopefully Naked Wines will have sold all of João’s cases and João will have raised some of the capital to realise his dream.

Joao Brito e Cunha says

“I am so excited to be here on Naked Wines, I hear so much about the Naked Wines family from my dear friend Mario Negreiro. Please let me introduce myself, my name is João Brito e Cunha and I am a consultant/producer winemaker from the Douro Valley, Portugal.

For some years now I have been planning to build my own winery. Rowan has told me that the Market place is the perfect place to raise some capital for this. The Douro Valley is a very complex and expensive wine region, we have so many different variables, with sun exposition, altitude, age of the vines, soil and many rich grape varieties. Building my own winery will allow me to improve many small details that will make a big difference to the final result. As a big thank-you for your help, I’m offering you a case of some really special wines at a big discount.

Please let me know any questions about my wines. And when my new winery is built, maybe you can come to visit me! Cheers!”

This campaign follows Carmen Steven’s campaign, a South African producer, where Naked Wines customers pre-ordered £120K worth of wine in one afternoon.

Rio Real 2009 is a dark, fruity and rich wine, everything a good Douro red should be – it has been created thanks to the Naked Angel funding and is now available to buy online from Naked Wines.

Rio Real 2009 is a blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Tinta Roriz grapes, and last May won a Silver medal at the International Wine Challenge.

It is the first Douro wine from Parras and thanks to the Naked Angel funding it allowed producers to rent a vineyard and a few tanks in a small winery in the Douro valley.

In the UK, all of their wines are exclusive at NakedWines.com.

The producers of Oscars, Negreiros and Montario/Rio Real Douro joined Naked Wines on this week’s nation-wide tour which took in cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and London.

Opposite is a picture of them in London on Monday.

Discover Naked’s Portuguese wine selection for yourself by visiting their website: www.naked-wines.com

Competition!

A bottle of wine to the first person to identify which bottle belongs to which producer (here’s a clue – none of them are holding their own bottles!) – Email viniportugal@jkmarketing.co.uk with the answer

Naked Wines is an online wine market, supporting independent wine makers from around the world. Their new Portuguese arrival is Oscar’s 2008 from Quevado in the Douro Valley.