Bottlenotes is a leading digital media company in the wine space dedicated to helping “demystify” the world of wine and serve as a trusted source of information for, and ultimately provide personal recommendations to, our Millennial Generation and Generation X user base. Bottlenotes educates and entertains new to intermediate wine enthusiasts via four primary touch points: • The Daily Sip™- our daily email newsletter about all things wine (think “Daily Candy” for wine) • Around the World in 80 Sips™ – large scale (500-750 person) consumer wine tastings featuring 80+ wines from around the world, coast-coast. • Bottlenotes.com- the destination for users to share their “tasting-notes” or bottle-notes, with the community. • Bottlenotes Mobile-“Your Wine Passport” is an online wine journal where Bottlenoters can record or “stamp” the great wines they try, and easily share them with their friends via Facebook & Twitter. Also includes the last five editions of The Daily Sip™. Through each platform, our goal is to educate and entertain our consumer audience through wine, while providing access to a wine-loving, lifestyle-driven consumer group across platforms for wine brands, wine regions, and broader luxury goods/services.
Barrie Lynn
The Cheese Impresario
Cultivating cheese enthusiasts with a passionate hand-to-mouth approach, Barrie Lynn – The Cheese Impresario is a leading educator on all things cheese. Her uninhibited style and engaging personality afford fun and innovative ways to discover and enjoy the complexities of artisanal cheese. A former advertising executive with a love of food and wine, she took a client to a Slow Food fundraiser. It was there her passion for artisanal cheese was born. Meeting these cheesemakers, and tasting the diversity and nuance of their cheeses, Barrie Lynn decided her mission is to educate others about the pleasures of cheese. Barrie LynnWatch Now
Cultivating cheese enthusiasts with a passionate hand-to-mouth approach, Barrie Lynn – The Cheese Impresario is a leading educator on all things cheese. Her uninhibited style and engaging personality afford fun and innovative ways to discover and enjoy the complexities of artisanal cheese. A former advertising executive with a love of food and wine, she took a client to a Slow Food fundraiser. It was there her passion for artisanal cheese was born. Meeting these cheesemakers, and tasting the diversity and nuance of their cheeses, Barrie Lynn decided her mission is to educate others about the pleasures of cheese.
Barrie Lynn has produced and taught cheese tasting events around the country, including Disney’s California Food & Wine Festival, Wine Spectator’s New York Wine Experience, the Ministry of Rum San Francisco Rum Festival, the Los Angeles Times Celebration of Food & Wine, Denver International Wine Festival, and Great Tastes Culinary Festival in Baltimore.
Her passion for cheese was brought to the stars of Hollywood via her personally hosted Cheese Tasting Adventure Parties for the Oscars, Emmys and the Golden Globe Awards. She has led cheese tastings for celebrities like Oscar winners Three 6 Mafia, Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin, Actor/Musician Terrence Howard, NFL star Shaun Phillips, musicians Slash, Dee Snyder, and Jason Bonham, as well as the cast & crew of Showtime’s hit TV show WEEDS.
Barrie Lynn – The Cheese Impresario writes the “Cheese Matters” monthly column in The Beverly Hills Times and she is the cheese and fine beverage pairings columnist for Mutineer Magazine. The Cheese Impresario has been featured in USA TODAY, VARIETY, Wine Spectator, The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Candy, the popular food blog EatingLA, Martha Stewart Living Radio, KGO TV, KTLA TV and E! Entertainment.
Her educational and entertaining show, CHEESE RULES, hosted by Barrie Lynn – The Cheese Impresario, is dedicated to increasing pleasure by educating viewers on all things cheese including entertaining, cooking and pairings with wine, beer, fine sake, spirits and cocktails.
Website: www.thecheeseimpresario.com
E-Mail: barrielynn@thecheeseimpresario.com
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Eric Arnold
Editorial Director
Bottlenotes, Inc.
Eric Arnold learned about wine the hard way. Instead of just tasting and reading, like everyone else, he quit his job and moved to New Zealand, where he spent a year working at a vineyard and winery, learning as much as he could about the dirty work that goes into making great-tasting wine. Between stints training vines under the hot sun or toiling on the bottling line, he wrote First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under (Scribner, 2007). He joined the company in 2010, after two years as the deputy lifestyle editor at Forbes.Watch Now
Eric Arnold learned about wine the hard way. Instead of just tasting and reading, like everyone else, he quit his job and moved to New Zealand, where he spent a year working at a vineyard and winery, learning as much as he could about the dirty work that goes into making great-tasting wine. Between stints training vines under the hot sun or toiling on the bottling line, he wrote First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under (Scribner, 2007). He joined the company in 2010, after two years as the deputy lifestyle editor at Forbes. Prior to that, Eric was the news editor for Wine Spectator. Eric graduated from Boston University, and brings frequent, ill-timed Big Lebowski references and a serious passion for all things fermented, brewed or distilled to his role as Editorial Director of Bottlenotes.
Website: www.bottlenotes.com
E-Mail: eric.arnold@bottlenotes.com
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Alyssa Rapp
Founder and CEO
Bottlenotes.com
Alyssa J. Rapp, is the founder and CEO of Bottlenotes.com, the premier online wine community where wine enthusiasts come to learn about wine, share tasting notes and buy wine. Alyssa is also the author of Bottlenotes Guide to Wine: Around the World in 80 Sips
Alyssa J. Rapp, is the founder and CEO of Bottlenotes.com, the premier online wine community where wine enthusiasts come to learn about wine, share tasting notes and buy wine. Alyssa is also the author of Bottlenotes Guide to Wine: Around the World in 80 Sips
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