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'''Vinologue''' is a publisher of [[enotourism]] [[guidebook]]s founded by Miquel Hudin and Èlia Varela i Serra in 2007. The guides are designed to allow those interested in enotourism to visit "Big Wines from Small Regions" and focus exclusively on the wines as well as the [[gastronomy]] and local culture of small regions throughout the world.<ref name="about" />
'''Vinologue''' is a publisher of an [[enotourism]] [[Guide book|guidebook]] series of the same name. It was founded by [[Miquel Hudin]] in 2007 with the guides are designed to allow those interested in enotourism to visit "Big Wines from Small Regions" as they focus exclusively on the wines as well as the gastronomy and local culture of small regions throughout the world.<ref name="tresc" />


The first Vinologue Guide was for [[Dalmatia]]in [[Croatia]] and was released in 2008.
The first Vinologue Guide was for [[Dalmatia]] in [[Croatia]] and was released in 2008.


==History==
==History==
After several trips throughout Europe in the early 2000s the founders discovered that traditional travel guidebooks made little to no mention of the wines or the culture and gastronomy that surrounds it. In 2007 they started researching a guide for the coastal Dalmatia region in Croatia.<ref name="about" /><ref name="scout" /> While researching the guide, they found the wines of neighboring [[Herzegovina]] to be of high quality as well and decided to release two guides instead of the original one.<ref name="herzegovina" />
After several trips throughout Europe in the early 2000s the founders discovered that traditional travel guidebooks made little to no mention of the wines or the culture and gastronomy that surrounds it. In 2007 they started researching a guide for the coastal Dalmatia region in Croatia. While researching the guide, they found the wines of neighboring [[Herzegovina]] to be of high quality as well and decided to release two guides instead of the original one.<ref name="herzegovina" />


All of the guides were initially released in the digital [[EPUB]] format. They slowly added other titles such as [[Stellenbosch]] in [[South Africa]].<ref name="ara" /> It was in 2012 that they released their first official print guide (alongside the digital version) for the [[Empordà]] region of [[Catalonia]] due to demand from the winemakers.<ref name="moments" /> It was the first English language enotourism guide of its kind in all of [[Spain]].<ref name="ara" /> This was followed by a guide in print and digital for [[Priorat (DOQ)|DOQ Priorat]] that was released simultaneously in separate English and Catalan editions and was the first enotourism guide for the internationally renown wine region.<ref name="directe" />
All of the guides were initially released in the digital [[EPUB]] format. They slowly added other titles such as [[Stellenbosch]] in [[South Africa]].<ref name="ara" /> It was in 2012 that they released their first official print guide (alongside the digital version) for the [[Empordà]] region of [[Catalonia]] due to demand from the winemakers.<ref name="moments" /> It was the first English language enotourism guide of its kind in all of [[Spain]].<ref name="ara" /> This was followed by a guide in print and digital for [[Priorat (DOQ)|DOQ Priorat]] that was released simultaneously in separate English and Catalan editions. It was the first enotourism guide and first complete guide to the internationally renowned wines of the region.<ref name="directe" /><ref name="324cat" />

After the first edition of the Priorat book unexpectedly sold out in 2014, they released a fully revised and much larger second edition in mid-2015.<ref name="diari1" />


==Methodology==
==Methodology==
The guides are different from other travel guidebooks in that in addition to providing travel information, history, and basic language information, they also provide reviews of the wines produced by each winery covered creating a hybrid book that is part travel guide and part wine guide, thus the name, 'vinologue' which is a [[portmanteau]] of 'vino' and 'travelogue'.<ref name="racimo" /> The guides work to make wine both approachable and affordable for any audience and they purposefully don't award numeric scores to wines given that beyond tasting notes, they believe scores to be highly subjective and personal.<ref name="scout" /><ref name="moments" /><ref name="priorat" /><ref name="envinats" />
The guides are different from other travel guidebooks in that in addition to providing travel information, history, and basic language information, they also provide reviews of the wines produced by each winery covered creating a hybrid book that is part travel guide and part wine guide, thus the name, 'vinologue' which is a [[portmanteau]] of 'vino' and 'travelogue'.<ref name="racimo" /> The guides work to make wine both approachable and affordable for any audience and they purposefully don't award numeric scores to wines given that beyond tasting notes, they believe scores to be highly subjective and personal.<ref name="moments" /><ref name="priorat" /><ref name="envinats" />


Both the print and digital editions of the guides are focused on being "21st century books" with GPS coordinates from wineries, QR Codes, and other digital media integration.<ref name="scout" /><ref name="secret" />
Both the print and digital editions of the guides are focused on being "21st century books" with GPS coordinates from wineries, QR Codes, and other digital media integration.<ref name="secret" />


Each guide requires a great deal of work by the authors involved as they live in the region for several months while working on the research in order to achieve a full first person point of view.<ref name="directe" /><ref name="racimo" /><ref name="envinats" /><ref name="lo" /> The guides are written fully independently with the wineries and other businesses mentioned not paying for inclusion and the local governmental bodies not funding publication.<ref name="disclaimer" />
Each guide requires a great deal of work by the authors involved as they live in the region for several months while working on the research in order to achieve a full first person point of view.<ref name="directe" /><ref name="racimo" /><ref name="envinats" /><ref name="lo" /> The guides are written fully independently; the wineries and other businesses cannot pay for inclusion in the guides and local governmental bodies do not fund publication.<ref name="disclaimer" />

The comprehensive tasting notes for the wines of the regions and accompanying scores are derived from a panel of professional sommeliers who perform all the tastings fully blind.<ref name="diari1" />


==Titles==
==Titles==
* Vinologue Dalmatia (2008)
* Vinologue Dalmatia-Herzegovina (2008)
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* Vinologue Herzegovina (2008)
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* Vinologue Stellenbosch (2011)
* Vinologue Empordà (2012)
* Vinologue Empordà (2012)
* Vinologue Priorat (2013)
* Vinologue Priorat 1st Ed. (2013)
* Vinologue Menorca (2013)
* Vinologue Menorca (2013)
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* Vinologue Montsant (2014)
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* Vinologue Priorat 2nd Ed. (2015)
* Georgia: A guide to the cradle of wine (2017)


==Popular Culture==
==Awards==
Vinologue Empordà received the Gourmand Award of "Best Enotourism Book" from a United States publisher in 2012.<ref name="gourmand" />
They were the first to coin the term, '''flying wine''' to describe wines that were made in rented facilities that they winemaker didn't own. These are often encountered in Priorat and neighboring [[Montsant DO|DO Montsant]].<ref name="directe" />

Vinologue Priorat 1st Edition was a finalist for "Best Wine Book in the World" from the Gourmand Award.<ref name="gourmand2" /><ref>[http://www.cookbookfair.com/index.php/gourmand-awards/winners-2014-gg/gourmand-awards-2014-winners-may-20/book/11?page=23 Gourmand Award Winners by Country 2014]</ref>

Vinologue Priorat 2nd Edition was praised highly in the annual wine book reviews on the website of [[Jancis Robinson]] stating, "Quite simply, every wine region deserves an enotourism guide of this calibre, and every wine traveller wants a wine guide this good."<ref>[http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/book-reviews-2015-spain-and-madeira Jancis Robinson - Book reviews 2015 - Spain and Madeira]</ref>

Georgia: A guide to the cradle of wine was named, "the definitive guide to this unique country's wines" in The Guardian. <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/01/the-best-books-on-drink-of-2017 The Guardian - The best books on drink of 2017]</ref>

==Popular culture==
They were the first to coin the term, '''flying wine''' to describe wines that were made in rented facilities that the winemaker does not own. These differ from [[Winemaker#Négociant|négociants]] in that the wines are usually side projects of a winemaker at the winery made in their spare time primarily for experimentation, as opposed to the négociant which primarily makes wine for commercial purposes. Flying wines are often encountered in Priorat, neighboring [[Montsant DO|DO Montsant]], and other regions where winemaking is the dominant aspect of day-to-day life.<ref name="directe" />


==References==
==References==
{{reflist|refs=
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<ref name="about">{{cite web |url=http://www.vinologue.net/about/ |title=About |publisher=Vinologue |accessdate=16 June 2013}}</ref>
<ref name="324cat">{{cite web |url=http://www.324.cat/noticia/2164576/altres/Vinologue-Priorat-la-primera-guia-de-vins-completa-que-es-fa-al-Priorat |title=L'editorial "Vinologue Priorat": la primera guia de vins completa que es fa de la DO Priorat |date=26 August 2013 |publisher=TV3 |access-date=27 August 2013 |language=ca}}</ref>


<ref name="ara">{{cite web |url=http://www.aragirona.cat/noticia/130443/leditorial-vinologue-publica-una-guia-en-angles-dels-vins-i-cellers-empordanesos |title=L'editorial 'Vinologue' publica una guia en anglès dels vins i cellers empordanesos |publisher=Ara |accessdate=1 June 2013 |language=Catalan}}</ref>
<ref name="tresc">{{cite web |url=http://www.tresc.cat/fitxa/vins/38018/Presentacio-de-Vinologue-Priorat--tast-de-vins |title=Presentació de Vinologue Priorat |publisher=Tresc |access-date=17 October 2013 |language=ca}}</ref>


<ref name="directe">{{cite web |url=http://vidirecte.cat/noticia/184/entrevista-elia-varela-i-miquel-hudin-autors-de-la-primera-guia-d-enoturisme-de-la-doq-priorat.html |title=Èlia Varela i Miquel Hudin, autors de la primera guia d'enoturisme de la DOQ Priorat |publisher=Vidirecte |accessdate=14 June 2013 |language=Catalan}}</ref>
<ref name="ara">{{cite web |url=http://www.aragirona.cat/noticia/130443/leditorial-vinologue-publica-una-guia-en-angles-dels-vins-i-cellers-empordanesos |title=L'editorial 'Vinologue' publica una guia en anglès dels vins i cellers empordanesos |publisher=Ara |access-date=1 June 2013 |language=ca}}</ref>


<ref name="disclaimer">{{cite web |url=http://www.vinologue.net/about/disclaimers/ |title=Disclaimers |publisher=Vinologue |accessdate=16 June 2013}}</ref>
<ref name="directe">{{cite web |url=http://vidirecte.cat/noticia/184/entrevista-elia-varela-i-miquel-hudin-autors-de-la-primera-guia-d-enoturisme-de-la-doq-priorat.html |title=Èlia Varela i Miquel Hudin, autors de la primera guia d'enoturisme de la DOQ Priorat |publisher=Vidirecte |access-date=14 June 2013 |language=ca}}</ref>


<ref name="envinats">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.elpunt.cat/envinats/2013/05/09/vinologue-fent-pais/ |title=Vinologue, fent país |publisher=Envinats, El Punt Avui |accessdate=6 June 2013 |language=Catalan}}</ref>
<ref name="disclaimer">{{cite web |url=http://www.vinologue.com/about/disclaimers/ |title=Disclaimers |publisher=Vinologue |access-date=16 June 2013}}</ref>


<ref name="herzegovina">{{cite book |url=http://www.vinologue.net/guides/herzegovina/ |title=Vinologue Herzegovina |author=Miquel Hudin & Elia Varela Serra|publisher=Leavenworth Press|isbn=978-0-983-77181-4|year=2012|pages=150}}</ref>
<ref name="envinats">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.elpunt.cat/envinats/2013/05/09/vinologue-fent-pais/ |title=Vinologue, fent país |publisher=Envinats, El Punt Avui |access-date=6 June 2013 |language=ca}}</ref>


<ref name="lo">{{cite web |url=http://celler-lo.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/the-vinologue-priorat-guide.html |title=The Vinologue Priorat Guide |publisher=Celler Lo |accessdate=1 June 2013}}</ref>
<ref name="herzegovina">{{cite book |url=http://www.vinologue.com/books/herzegovina/ |title=Vinologue Herzegovina |author=Miquel Hudin & Elia Varela Serra|publisher=Leavenworth Press|isbn=978-0-983-77181-4|year=2012|pages=150}}</ref>


<ref name="moments">{{cite web |url=http://vimomentspersones.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/vinologue-big-wines-from-small-regions/ |title=Vinologue/Big wines from small regions |publisher=Ruth Troyano |accessdate=18 June 2013 |language=Catalan}}</ref>
<ref name="lo">{{cite web |url=http://celler-lo.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/the-vinologue-priorat-guide.html |title=The Vinologue Priorat Guide |publisher=Celler Lo |access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref>


<ref name="priorat">{{cite book |url=http://www.vinologue.net/guides/priorat/ |title=Vinologue Priorat |author=Miquel Hudin & Elia Varela Serra|publisher=Leavenworth Press|isbn=978-0-983-77185-2|year=2013|pages=432}}</ref>
<ref name="moments">{{cite web |url=http://vimomentspersones.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/vinologue-big-wines-from-small-regions/ |title=Vinologue/Big wines from small regions |date=17 August 2012 |publisher=Ruth Troyano |access-date=18 June 2013 |language=ca}}</ref>


<ref name="racimo">{{cite web |url=http://delracimoalpaladar.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/vinologue-priorat-la-mejor-guia-de.html |title=Vinologue Priorat, la mejor guía de enoturismo del Priorat |publisher=Del racimo al paladar |accessdate=2 June 2013 |language=Spanish}}</ref>
<ref name="priorat">{{cite book |url=http://www.vinologue.com/books/priorat/ |title=Vinologue Priorat |author=Miquel Hudin & Elia Varela Serra|publisher=Leavenworth Press|isbn=978-0-983-77185-2|year=2013|pages=432}}</ref>


<ref name="secret">{{cite web |url=http://secretdalmatia.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/vinologue-guides-dalmatia/ |title=Vinologue: Guides: Dalmatia |publisher=Secret Dalmatia |accessdate=10 June 2013}}</ref>
<ref name="racimo">{{cite web |url=http://delracimoalpaladar.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/vinologue-priorat-la-mejor-guia-de.html |title=Vinologue Priorat, la mejor guía de enoturismo del Priorat |publisher=Del racimo al paladar |access-date=2 June 2013 |language=es}}</ref>


<ref name="scout">{{cite web |url=http://scoutmob.com/san-francisco/scoutfinds/2339 |title=Interview with Miquel Hudin |publisher=Scoutmob.com |accessdate=16 June 2013}}</ref>
<ref name="secret">{{cite web |url=http://secretdalmatia.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/vinologue-guides-dalmatia/ |title=Vinologue: Guides: Dalmatia |publisher=Secret Dalmatia |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="gourmand">{{cite web |url=http://www.vinologue.com/news/vinologue-emporda-wins-a-gourmand-award/ |title=Vinologue Empordà wins a Gourmand Award |publisher=Vinologue |access-date=15 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="gourmand2">{{cite web |url=http://www.vinologue.com/news/vinologue-priorat-wins-a-gourmand-award/ |title=Vinologue Priorat wins a Gourmand Award |publisher=Vinologue |access-date=12 January 2014}}</ref>

<ref name="diari1">{{cite web |url=http://www.naciodigital.cat/delcamp/prioratdiari/noticia/550/surt/venda/2a/edicio/guia/enoturisme/vinologue/priorat |title=Surt a la venda la 2a edició de la guia d'enoturisme Vinologue Priorat |publisher=Nació Digital |access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref>


}}
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.vinologue.net/ Official site]
* [http://www.vinologue.com/ Official site]


{{Tourism}}
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Vinologue
"Be wine curious"
Founded2007
FounderMiquel Hudin
Country of originUnited States, Spain
Official websitewww.vinologue.com

Vinologue is a publisher of an enotourism guidebook series of the same name. It was founded by Miquel Hudin in 2007 with the guides are designed to allow those interested in enotourism to visit "Big Wines from Small Regions" as they focus exclusively on the wines as well as the gastronomy and local culture of small regions throughout the world.[1]

The first Vinologue Guide was for Dalmatia in Croatia and was released in 2008.

History

[edit]

After several trips throughout Europe in the early 2000s the founders discovered that traditional travel guidebooks made little to no mention of the wines or the culture and gastronomy that surrounds it. In 2007 they started researching a guide for the coastal Dalmatia region in Croatia. While researching the guide, they found the wines of neighboring Herzegovina to be of high quality as well and decided to release two guides instead of the original one.[2]

All of the guides were initially released in the digital EPUB format. They slowly added other titles such as Stellenbosch in South Africa.[3] It was in 2012 that they released their first official print guide (alongside the digital version) for the Empordà region of Catalonia due to demand from the winemakers.[4] It was the first English language enotourism guide of its kind in all of Spain.[3] This was followed by a guide in print and digital for DOQ Priorat that was released simultaneously in separate English and Catalan editions. It was the first enotourism guide and first complete guide to the internationally renowned wines of the region.[5][6]

After the first edition of the Priorat book unexpectedly sold out in 2014, they released a fully revised and much larger second edition in mid-2015.[7]

Methodology

[edit]

The guides are different from other travel guidebooks in that in addition to providing travel information, history, and basic language information, they also provide reviews of the wines produced by each winery covered creating a hybrid book that is part travel guide and part wine guide, thus the name, 'vinologue' which is a portmanteau of 'vino' and 'travelogue'.[8] The guides work to make wine both approachable and affordable for any audience and they purposefully don't award numeric scores to wines given that beyond tasting notes, they believe scores to be highly subjective and personal.[4][9][10]

Both the print and digital editions of the guides are focused on being "21st century books" with GPS coordinates from wineries, QR Codes, and other digital media integration.[11]

Each guide requires a great deal of work by the authors involved as they live in the region for several months while working on the research in order to achieve a full first person point of view.[5][8][10][12] The guides are written fully independently; the wineries and other businesses cannot pay for inclusion in the guides and local governmental bodies do not fund publication.[13]

The comprehensive tasting notes for the wines of the regions and accompanying scores are derived from a panel of professional sommeliers who perform all the tastings fully blind.[7]

Titles

[edit]
  • Vinologue Dalmatia-Herzegovina (2008)
  • Vinologue Empordà (2012)
  • Vinologue Priorat 1st Ed. (2013)
  • Vinologue Menorca (2013)
  • Vinologue Montsant (2014)
  • Vinologue Priorat 2nd Ed. (2015)
  • Georgia: A guide to the cradle of wine (2017)

Awards

[edit]

Vinologue Empordà received the Gourmand Award of "Best Enotourism Book" from a United States publisher in 2012.[14]

Vinologue Priorat 1st Edition was a finalist for "Best Wine Book in the World" from the Gourmand Award.[15][16]

Vinologue Priorat 2nd Edition was praised highly in the annual wine book reviews on the website of Jancis Robinson stating, "Quite simply, every wine region deserves an enotourism guide of this calibre, and every wine traveller wants a wine guide this good."[17]

Georgia: A guide to the cradle of wine was named, "the definitive guide to this unique country's wines" in The Guardian. [18]

[edit]

They were the first to coin the term, flying wine to describe wines that were made in rented facilities that the winemaker does not own. These differ from négociants in that the wines are usually side projects of a winemaker at the winery made in their spare time primarily for experimentation, as opposed to the négociant which primarily makes wine for commercial purposes. Flying wines are often encountered in Priorat, neighboring DO Montsant, and other regions where winemaking is the dominant aspect of day-to-day life.[5]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Presentació de Vinologue Priorat" (in Catalan). Tresc. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ^ Miquel Hudin & Elia Varela Serra (2012). Vinologue Herzegovina. Leavenworth Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-983-77181-4.
  3. ^ a b "L'editorial 'Vinologue' publica una guia en anglès dels vins i cellers empordanesos" (in Catalan). Ara. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Vinologue/Big wines from small regions" (in Catalan). Ruth Troyano. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "Èlia Varela i Miquel Hudin, autors de la primera guia d'enoturisme de la DOQ Priorat" (in Catalan). Vidirecte. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  6. ^ "L'editorial "Vinologue Priorat": la primera guia de vins completa que es fa de la DO Priorat" (in Catalan). TV3. 26 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  7. ^ a b "Surt a la venda la 2a edició de la guia d'enoturisme Vinologue Priorat". Nació Digital. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Vinologue Priorat, la mejor guía de enoturismo del Priorat" (in Spanish). Del racimo al paladar. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  9. ^ Miquel Hudin & Elia Varela Serra (2013). Vinologue Priorat. Leavenworth Press. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-983-77185-2.
  10. ^ a b "Vinologue, fent país" (in Catalan). Envinats, El Punt Avui. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  11. ^ "Vinologue: Guides: Dalmatia". Secret Dalmatia. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  12. ^ "The Vinologue Priorat Guide". Celler Lo. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  13. ^ "Disclaimers". Vinologue. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  14. ^ "Vinologue Empordà wins a Gourmand Award". Vinologue. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  15. ^ "Vinologue Priorat wins a Gourmand Award". Vinologue. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  16. ^ Gourmand Award Winners by Country 2014
  17. ^ Jancis Robinson - Book reviews 2015 - Spain and Madeira
  18. ^ The Guardian - The best books on drink of 2017
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