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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the purpose of Project Vino?

Project Vino is a website dedicated to enhanceing your Australian and New Zealand wine experiences - both online and offline. Check out all our great features on the About page here.
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How much does it cost?

Project Vino is free to use and will always be free to use.
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I Own a Winery, Can I Get Involved?

Yes. Please do. You can ensure all the data on the site about your winery is correct and upload details of your wines and vintages not yet listed. Email hugo@projectvino.com.au for assistance.
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Who's Behind Project Vino?

Hugo Sharp (Founder)

Hugo Sharp with Dave Powell of Torbreck

Hugo founded and still hosts and produces Australia's first wine focused podcast, The Oz Wine Show. Hugo's passion for wine started as a teenager at family events where wine was always present. Hugo is extremely passionate about wine and new media technologies and their intersection and is always happy to chat about them.

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How Did Project Vino Come About?

The start of Project Vino can be found in mid 2005. At this time, I (Hugo) was getting into a lot of podcasts about all manner of topics. One of those happened to be wine. Podcasts such as Grape Radio and Winecast are great, free resources to learn about wine online but they all had one big problem; I was in Australia and they were not. This effectively meant that all the great wines they were talking about, I had no way of trying. Not to be put off, I decided to start Australia's first wine podcast, The Oz Wine Show. Since then myself and my co-host Mick Barrett have interviewed some great Australian (and international) wine people and had a ball doing it.

For over two years now i've been really passionate about wine and all the fantastic ways the internet can help us enhance our experiences of it. In late 2006, all my thoughts and ideas on the subject started to coalesce into the form of a single site and I started jotting down ideas. By June of 2007, i had written and re-written all these ideas enough and the only thing left to do was get into the game and engage some web developers.

The great team at Toowards in Sydney and I worked until December and have now laid the foundations for Project Vino. The site you see at the moment is the first incarnation and will be built up with a number of really great features in the first few months of 2008. I can't say too much just yet though. Project Vino is first and foremost a community and we therefore welcome any suggestion you might have to better the site or for a new and wonderful feature to enhance your wine experiences. Email me directly via hugo@projectvino.com.au .
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