California Photographer Vance Petrunoff Captures the Essence of “Occupy”
California Photographer Vance Petrunoff Captures the Essence of “Occupy”
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On top of Seattle - the China Room with a 360 degree view
The China room of the Smith Building overlooks the City and all we had great time. The VINI wines are selling extremely well in the State of Washington, thanks to our fantastic distributor and his team. This is the view on a sunny day and we had one. I had to visit Occupy Seattle - I am now unofficial photographer of Occupy.
The annual New York tasting at the Harmony Club
The tasting was great success since two venerable NY clubs took VINI for their by the glass programs. NY was beautiful and I used the new over the water air tramway from Roosevelt Island. I couldn't resist and visited Zuccotti park where the Occupy Wall St. movement just started camping and snapped a lot of photos .
Pouring wine in Denver, and taking photos
Working in Denver has a great meaning to me, here I started my new life in the US 26 years ago. My first Jazz Club in America revisited - and it is great as it was. Great hangout, good baklava Sea Horse above Denver
Bulgarian wines presented in St. Louis, Missouri
Vance Petrunoff introduces VINI in St. Louis, MO Beale On Broadway - great blues club
Bulgarian Festival in Golden Gate Park
It's been a while... After 6 years a new Bulgarian Festival is coming to everybody's favorite city. And there's no better place than Golden Gate Park!
Look it up on FaceBook!
Orlin Mirtchev and Vance Petrunoff from BulgarianWine.com are bringing some of the best Bulgarian performers to play in San Francisco County Fair Building.
Address: San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Ave, SF, CA
Event: Saturday, September 24, 20011, 12.30 pm to 6 pm.
Cover: $10 advance purchase ($20 at the door).
Free for children under 16 and seniors over 65!
Please call Orlin @ 415.425.3877 to buy advance txts by CC
Performers include:
Flamenco & dance: Bobi Solakov & Kerensa DeMars
Folk: Vasil & Maria Bebelekovi & Rumen Shopov (Zulum group)
Rock: VIP Rock: Ogi Tsolov & Iordan Stamenkov (Faktor group), Nasko Andreev (Signal, Elit groups), Percy Trayanov (Ognen zvuk group)
Bulgarian food, Bulgarian wine, Bulgarian beer and plenty of Bulga...
Peshterska Muskat Grape Brandy $20. Best Buy.
Clear with a faint platinum blue cast. Floral aromas of peony lotion and ripe apricot follow through on a soft, satiny entry to a dry-yet-fruity medium-to-full body with superb smoothness and good depth. Finishes with a touch of floral bath oil, grape stem, mineral, and warming pepperiness. An attractive brandy with a nice floral muscat character. International Review of Spirits Award: Gold Medal RATING: 90 points (Exceptional) ALCOHOL BY VOLUME: 40.0% CATEGORY: Brandy, Brandy TASTING LOCATION: In Our Chicago Tasting Room TASTING DATE: Mar-23-2010 SPIRITS ID: 191389 We have noted the following US importer for this spirit: Bulgarian Master Vintners 1447 E. Napa St. Sonoma CA 95476 Ph. (707) 939-8719 Fax (360) 237-2326 http://www.bulgarianwine.com info@bulgarianwine.com
Zvonareva loses to Bulgarian Pironkova in 3rd round
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Second-seeded Vera Zvonareva was upset by Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2, 6-3 in the third round at Wimbledon on Friday. The match was a repeat of last year's semifinals, which Zvonareva won in three sets to reach the first of her two Grand Slam finals last year. Pironkova turned the tables on Court 2. The 32nd-seeded Bulgarian broke four times and saved six of seven break points. It was Zvonareva's earliest loss in a Grand Slam since last year's French Open. Pironkova knocked out Venus Williams last year. She could face the five-time champion again in the fourth round. Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Zvonareva-loses-to-Pironkova-in-3rd-round-1438763.php#ixzz1QD7CUvCw
Wine Enthusiast rates 3 VINI red wines from Bulgaria Best Buy, all with 87 points score
The editors at Wine Enthusiast have recently rated and reviewed the following wines. 87 Best Buy VINI 2009 Pinot Noir, Danube River Plains, $9.00 87 Best Buy VINI 2009 Merlot, Thracian Valley, $8.00 87 Best Buy VINI 2009, Cabernet Sauvignon, $8.00
Bulgaria bouncing back?
This article was published in The 30 Second Wine Advisor on Friday, May. 20, 2011 and can be found at http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor2/tswa20110520.php . If you grew up during the Cold War, chances are that you think of Bulgaria - if you think of it at all - as one of those sad Slavic countries held behind the Iron Curtain, a drab and poor dictatorship, not a likely destination for travel or exports. If you looked closely at the labels of cheap wines in the bargain bins during the 1980s, you might have recognized Bulgaria on the label of some inexpensive, decent but forgettable table wines. (Many of them were exported by the Pepsi-Cola company, not that Pepsi made any real effort to publicize this.) Since the Eastern Bloc fell apart in the early 1990s, unfortunately, Bulgaria wasn't one of the first to bounce back. Its old collectivized wine industry, now independent, sent a lot of bulk wine to Britain, but it wasn't memorable wine. But a recent tasting of wines from...
The Ambassadors' Reception in San Francisco
The Ambassadors' Reception was a success, and thank you all for coming. In this photo H.E. Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States and H.E. James Warlick, Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Bulgaria, and Vance Petrunoff
Best wines of 2010 - Wine Report from the Fort
Wine Report from the Fort Best wines of 2010 By Fred McMillin http://www.northsidesf.com/jan11/fw_winereport.html We taste a lot of wine at our Fort Mason classes, and here are last year’s favorites by color, type, varietal, and price. Whites, pinks and sparklers Chardonnay Under $20 : Steele Wines California “Steele Cuvee” 2008, $18 Over $20 : Grgich Hills Estate Napa Valley 2007, $42 Chenin Blanc Under $20 : Ballentine Vineyards Napa Valley 2009, $15 Pink Under $20 : Pedroncelli Vineyards Sonoma County Dry Rosé of Zinfandel 2008, $10 Pinot Gris Under $20 : King Estate Oregon “Acrobat” 2008, $12 Riesling Under $20 : Steele Wines Shooting Star Lake County 2008, $14 Sauvignon Blanc Under $20 : Vini Wines Black Sea (Bulgaria) 2009, $8 Over $20 : Peju Province Winery Napa Valley 2008, $22 Sparklers Under $20 : Tiamo Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Veneto (Italy) NV, $15 Traminer Under $20 : Targovishte Winery Black Sea (Bulgaria) 2009, $11 Viognier Maximum $20 : Handley Cellars Dry Creek Valley...
VINI Bulgarian Wines Gain Market Share in the U.S. with 35% Sales Increase in 2010
SONOMA, CA VINI, the best-selling Bulgarian wines in the America continue to gain notoriety with exceptional scores from prominent critics. A recent review in The Tasting Panel Magazine scored 91 points for the VINI Merlot, 2008 Thracian Valley while Wine Enthusiast Magazine bestowed a “Best Buy” recommendation and 86 points for the VINI Cabernet Sauvignon, 2008 Thracian Valley. Robert M. Parker, Jr’s Wine Advocate has also recently praised the entire VINI line. These ratings are representative of the growing trend toward high quality value-priced wines from Bulgaria. During challenging economic times, VINI and several other Bulgarian wines distributed by Sonoma-based Bulgarian Master Vintners continue to gain notoriety and market share in America. Sales increased by 35% in 2010 after a solid gains in 2009. Many internationally acclaimed wine producers are looking to Bulgaria as the "next big thing," as Bulgarian wines represent extraordinary quality and extremely reasonable...
