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Life on the Douro

Posted on July 12, 2011 by zev

In just over a week, I’ll be going to Porto and then the Douro region for my fifth trip to film material that I need to fill a few gaps in my 3/4 finished Life on the Douro documentary. By … Continue reading →

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Paint, film, and wine

Posted on July 11, 2011 by zev

Since my early teens, I’ve had two obsessions – art and film. I did a lot of drawing and painting and saw a lot of movies, and after high school toyed with the idea of studying film but decided on … Continue reading →

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Stories and Storytelling

Posted on July 10, 2011 by zev

Life on the Douro, which I had been editing in separate segments, was finally put together on one timeline yesterday, followed by an elated feeling that it was getting close to being finished. But that feeling ended when I took … Continue reading →

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Making the Dinastia Vivanco documentary

Posted on February 16, 2011 by zev

Over the last couple of years, I’ve traveled over 18,000 kilometres, visiting about 20 Spanish wine regions, plus the Douro region of Portugal, and have filmed over 230 hours of material that will be made into four documentaries related to … Continue reading →

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On Perception

Posted on January 28, 2011 by zev

My interview with Tim Hanni, MW, seemed to have resonated with a lot of people, demystifying certain questions about the subjectivity of taste and perception in wine. What he said made a lot of sense to me as a non-wine … Continue reading →

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What I’ve been doing lately

Posted on June 7, 2010 by zev

Over the last year or so, I have visited some 20 different wine regions in Spain, travelling over 15,000 kilometres (10,000 miles), accumulating 180+ hours of material, including many fascinating interviews on the history, evolution and culture of wine. Not … Continue reading →

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EWBC 2009 and catavino.net

Posted on March 1, 2010 by zev

European Wine Bloggers Conference 2009 from Zev Robinson on Vimeo. I went to the European Wine Bloggers Conference 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal to film material for a series of documentaries on wine as culture, history, and economics that I have … Continue reading →

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