User:BodegasAmbite

Joined WikiProject:Wine on 25 April 2007. I was adopted by mikaul who showed me the ropes.

About Me
My first language is English and I also speak Spanish and Italian.

I live in Madrid, Spain and make natural Organic wine. I have several small vineyards, one in the village of Carabaña and the other in Villarejo, both (in the Tajuña Valley, about 50 km from Madrid), to the South-east, in the direction of Valencia. The one in Carabaña is planted to white Airén and red Tempranillo, and the one in Villarejo to white Malvar. My other vineyards, planted to Garnacha, Albillo and Chelva are in the Sierra de Gredos mountains, about 90 km from Madrid in the other direction (ie, towards Avila)

I am in the process of transforming this expensive, time-consuming, family-life-destroying project into a viable small business (!). I moved into a new bodega (winery) last year (2013) in the village of El Tiemblo.

I've been making wine for 12 years now (since 2003). I 'discovered' the internet and social media back in 2009 and now I write a [blog] and am active on Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn.

Other Interests apart from Wine

 * Making Wine
 * Running/Jogging (but have lapsed lately)
 * Tasting Wine
 * Science Fiction novels (but haven't read anything for millenia)
 * Drinking Wine
 * Strategic Wargames (but haven't played for years; have been out-manoeuvered by other interests!)
 * Discussing Wine
 * Etymology (but haven`t dabbled for years)
 * Reading about Wine
 * Editing on Wikipedia-Wine-Project

Apart from the above, I find the topic of wine in general quite interesting!

What I've done on WikiProject:Wine
I've finally finished creating articles for all the Spanish quality wine regions. It took me quite some time, but it's done at last :)

Possible Tasks that I Could Do Next:

 * resume editing wine articles on Wikipedia, after a long break of zero activity--BodegasAmbite (talk) 13:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Specifically, I hope to update the Spanish wine D.O.s and IGP's, which I notice are a bit out of date.

OK, this is what's really on the cards at the moment (22 April 09):
 * Upgrade these remaining Spanish Denominación de Origen wine region Stubs to Starts:
 * Otazu, Prado de Irache, Señorío de Arínzano, La Gomera (DO), Gran Canaria (DO), Catalunya (DO), Tierra del Vino de Zamora DO and Tierra de León (DO)


 * Create articles (preferably Starts) for all 46 Spanish Vino de la Tierra wine regions. (Have done 2 so far!)
 * Find maps for all the Spanish wine regions. (All the DOs now have one, but none of the VdlT's yet)
 * Find photos for all the Spanish wine regions

And this is what I'd like to do, but probably won't get round to doing for a long time(!):
 * Disambiguate the DO/town/region wine articles properly and consistently
 * Take "Airén" article up to B class (at least)
 * Fix red links on Spanish grape varieties
 * Fix red links in Spanish DO and VdlT articles
 * Try to stop this to do list getting longer and longer

--BodegasAmbite (talk) 15:29, 15 December 2010 (UTC)