It's Been A Silent, Rocky, Lonely Road This Of Trying To Promote The Fine Wines Of Brasil : Why Is There Such Silence, No One Really Reaching Out To Me Except A Very Few?!?

     I am enjoying what I describe pretty much as single-handedly giving a big ' shout out ' for what I term the ' fine wines ' of Brasil. I call them that because, so me and my experience tasting, selling and promoting wines for more than thirty years now that is an accurate description of what I have tasted so far. I would like to taste more and look forward to that. I encourage people in Brasil to send me samples ( email me at : tonythewineguy@gmail.com ) to find out where to send them. I want to promote and not hinder or tear down these wines and I am not looking to critique them in a negative way but rather to promote them and offer my opinion of how they are best and with what foods and occasions I see them as fitting.

     I am discouraged but not defeated and not wanting or willing to stop with my promotion of these fine wines of Brasil. I just wish that I had more support from the vineyards and those that work for them. I especially wish that the Brazilian government was more involved with the whole process and as ready and willing to promote them and offer tax-advantages to the various wineries seeking to export out of Brasil, in this particular case to the United States. They seem to work with the Cachaca producers and I applaud them for that, but today - AGORA - Brasil is so very much more than Cachaca, and the whole world as well as fellow Brazilians all need to know and believe this and get behind promoting these other ' hidden gems ' that they have.

     I believe that ' fine wines ' from anywhere in the world deserve a place on the shelves of stores, floor displays, to be on restaurant lists, served in hotels, in clubs and bars and at country clubs and enjoyed in people's private homes and also at their special events and celebrations. They do not have to be great or the very best, being fine and getting better all the time earns them this right to be available widely. So, I continue to champion them and I look for help to do this. So far I have not made a penny or gained any monetary benefit of any kind in doing this.

     I believe it's the time, that it is the right thing to do, that I am in the right place to help, that I am willing and able and knowledgeable to help and be of service now - agora! If I can make some money at it eventually that would be nice and I will obviously welcome some pay eventually for what I am doing now ' pro bono '. For now it's important to me to hear from more of you wanting to do the same so that we may work together to make this a reality sooner than later. The time is now!

     But it seems that the picture is a much bigger one than I have been seeing. It seems that Brasil and the government has a whole lot of work to do on many frontiers and that this one of wine is just one of thousands that Brasil and it's government have to attend to, see, evaluate, manage and address in a much more active, creative, functional way.

     This thinking on my part comes from the hundreds of Facebook postings I have seen over the last year or so, even the articles that I have read like , most recently, yesterday's article published in the Washington Post newspaper, Sunday, February 2nd, 2014 : THE WORLD - " Rio's ghost hotels crumble as city scrambles to house World Cup fans ", page A10. I quote : " ' The bueaucracy is phenomenal. The technical capacity of the Brazilian state to produce infrastructure ...  is very low. " said Christopher Gaffney, visiting professor in architecture and urbanism at Rio's Federal Fluminense University. '  "

     I have much more to write here but will post this now 'as is ' and continue this dialogue later. Cheers, tim tim, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn  2/3/14