Ennobled Wayfarer

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Dear Ennobled Wayfarer,

Hello!

This is Daniel Shin, studying in MSc Food Management at University of Surrey.
I am studying the consumer's wine buying behaviour online.
This research seeks the opinion of people who have had an experience purchasing wine either online or from other sources to investigate factors influencing customers’ wine purchasing behaviour in online shopping.
I have to find at least 100 people who have an experience of buying wine online.
If possible, could you send the questionnaire to members and ex-members?
It is linked to http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=jj73z5zbvz3kxvj610601
And if you cannot link to survey, please copy and paste the address on the web.
It just takes 1 min to answer the questionnaire.
I would be most grateful, if you could spare your time to send the questionnaire.
If you want to see research results, then I will send you after analysing the survey.
The research will contribute to a MSc dissertation in Food Management at the University of Surrey.
Any information provided will ONLY be used for research purposes.
All responses will be treated with the strictest confidence.
I am only in interested in obtaining consumers' views.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Daniel Shin
The University of Surrey
MSc in Food Management
ss00098@surrey.ac.uk

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"Thanks a lot for the compliment. I only just turned 21 but have worked for St. Supery (Napa Valley) and Casa Larga Vineyards (Fairport, NY) and have written about wine for two publications...that being said, my palate is still woefully underdeveloped. The only way to learn though is to try right? Will be following you on snooth!"
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"I'm relatively new to the whole wine rating thing as well. But I figure if not on snooth, then where? Plus I've been getting a lot of insight about what other people are thinking about wine and not what wine spectator thinks about wine. I'm only 21 but have been interested in wine since I was 16 and I've always felt that wine should be shared more on a day to day basis than just for celebrations or big events. In everywhere else in the world, more or less, aside from the U.S., people are drinking wine at dinner every night or out at lunch. Its common and it should be a common people's drink. Not saying however that there shouldn't be high class wines, just that I wish people could get over this timidity when it comes to wine.

But I loved your story! I was wondering actually if you might be interested in writing for us at Eleven. We do a different guest blogger every week, or try to at least, and basically you get a week to put whatever the hell you want up. We've been around for about 2 1/2 years and have gotten about 90,000 hits. You can write about anything. We usually like to have a theme but its whatever you want and we have had some ccrraazzyy guest bloggers before. I just like the way you write, it draws me into the story like a conversation and before I know it I am looking around at "no human or animal life to speak of" amongst rows and rows of vineyards. If you're interested let me know! We also do an interview with the guest blogger and put it up as their first post, with whatever you want as followed. A good way to get your name out there! Send me an email, ryan.michael.evans@gmail.com , with a couple sample if you're interested. Thanks for the message, you're one of the few people I've ever heard compliment my writing. Means a lot!"
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"Enjoying your writings @eleven-magazine.com! One of my favorite traveling stories is when I was backpacking my way south for the summer from Germany into Switzerland, grabbed a friend and two bikes at the border, and went zooming (I say zoom, he says dawdle) through some vineyards for a couple hours. We must’ve been going fast enough to become disconcerted because by the time we decided to rest and open a bottle (it was a local white, the name escapes me presently)/eat cheese, we might as well had been in Genova for all we knew. No humans or animal life to speak of. Just hills and hills of grape leaves. Making light of the situation, I told him we should enjoy our rations and then seek some locals for help. He suggested we drink and ride (this is what a lower legal-drinking age will do for ya). He won rock-paper-scissors (nine out of twenty, he kept cheating), so we drove on and drank on. We found some domesticated life fairly quickly, two hours tops, and he hopped off his bike and approached a sullen-looking broad in a housedress (think Daisy May “Granny” Moses, not Stepford wives) who was scratching her back with a broom in the middle of some dirt crossroads. She was definitely no French maid. Heated words are exchanged between the pair, and soon my comrade storms over to where I was safely observing the unfolding situation from afar, snatches our map, and storms his way back. She’s amused and he exchanges more heated words, some “hurensohn,” “sheisse,” and “dummes Huhn,” which means “stupid chicken.” He’s jabbing the map, then pointing to the road, and jerking his head towards the hill we rolled down, and, to be honest, making quite an unnecessary scene. I think it was that whole ingrained Real-Men-Don’t-Ask-For¬-Directions trait being tested. Finally, I think she’s had enough, because she says, “Arschgesicht,” takes the map from him, turns it right side up, snorts, gives it back and turns her back on him.

Is the Wayfarer trend still going strong? I find myself without a pair. Looking forward to your next installment in a week! I don’t think I’m seasoned enough to leave wine notes of worth, but you should check out some of the wines I’ve rated—the bubbly is appropriate anytime, anywhere.

Cheers!

-Caitelin
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Hey Snoothers. My name is Ryan Evans and I'm a Hospitality major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I'm part of their new Beverage minor program, which covers wine, beer, and...

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Dear Ennobled Wayfarer,

Hello!

This is Daniel Shin, studying in MSc Food Management at University of Surrey.
I am studying the consumer's wine buying behaviour online.
This research seeks the opinion of people who have had an experience purchasing wine either online or from other sources to investigate factors influencing customers’ wine purchasing behaviour in online shopping.
I have to find at least 100 people who have an experience of buying wine online.
If possible, could you send the questionnaire to members and ex-members?
It is linked to http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=jj73z5zbvz3kxvj610601
And if you cannot link to survey, please copy and paste the address on the web.
It just takes 1 min to answer the questionnaire.
I would be most grateful, if you could spare your time to send the questionnaire.
If you want to see research results, then I will send you after analysing the survey.
The research will contribute to a MSc dissertation in Food Management at the University of Surrey.
Any information provided will ONLY be used for research purposes.
All responses will be treated with the strictest confidence.
I am only in interested in obtaining consumers' views.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Daniel Shin
The University of Surrey
MSc in Food Management
ss00098@surrey.ac.uk

"
reply

"Thanks a lot for the compliment. I only just turned 21 but have worked for St. Supery (Napa Valley) and Casa Larga Vineyards (Fairport, NY) and have written about wine for two publications...that being said, my palate is still woefully underdeveloped. The only way to learn though is to try right? Will be following you on snooth!"
reply

"I'm relatively new to the whole wine rating thing as well. But I figure if not on snooth, then where? Plus I've been getting a lot of insight about what other people are thinking about wine and not what wine spectator thinks about wine. I'm only 21 but have been interested in wine since I was 16 and I've always felt that wine should be shared more on a day to day basis than just for celebrations or big events. In everywhere else in the world, more or less, aside from the U.S., people are drinking wine at dinner every night or out at lunch. Its common and it should be a common people's drink. Not saying however that there shouldn't be high class wines, just that I wish people could get over this timidity when it comes to wine.

But I loved your story! I was wondering actually if you might be interested in writing for us at Eleven. We do a different guest blogger every week, or try to at least, and basically you get a week to put whatever the hell you want up. We've been around for about 2 1/2 years and have gotten about 90,000 hits. You can write about anything. We usually like to have a theme but its whatever you want and we have had some ccrraazzyy guest bloggers before. I just like the way you write, it draws me into the story like a conversation and before I know it I am looking around at "no human or animal life to speak of" amongst rows and rows of vineyards. If you're interested let me know! We also do an interview with the guest blogger and put it up as their first post, with whatever you want as followed. A good way to get your name out there! Send me an email, ryan.michael.evans@gmail.com , with a couple sample if you're interested. Thanks for the message, you're one of the few people I've ever heard compliment my writing. Means a lot!"
reply

"Enjoying your writings @eleven-magazine.com! One of my favorite traveling stories is when I was backpacking my way south for the summer from Germany into Switzerland, grabbed a friend and two bikes at the border, and went zooming (I say zoom, he says dawdle) through some vineyards for a couple hours. We must’ve been going fast enough to become disconcerted because by the time we decided to rest and open a bottle (it was a local white, the name escapes me presently)/eat cheese, we might as well had been in Genova for all we knew. No humans or animal life to speak of. Just hills and hills of grape leaves. Making light of the situation, I told him we should enjoy our rations and then seek some locals for help. He suggested we drink and ride (this is what a lower legal-drinking age will do for ya). He won rock-paper-scissors (nine out of twenty, he kept cheating), so we drove on and drank on. We found some domesticated life fairly quickly, two hours tops, and he hopped off his bike and approached a sullen-looking broad in a housedress (think Daisy May “Granny” Moses, not Stepford wives) who was scratching her back with a broom in the middle of some dirt crossroads. She was definitely no French maid. Heated words are exchanged between the pair, and soon my comrade storms over to where I was safely observing the unfolding situation from afar, snatches our map, and storms his way back. She’s amused and he exchanges more heated words, some “hurensohn,” “sheisse,” and “dummes Huhn,” which means “stupid chicken.” He’s jabbing the map, then pointing to the road, and jerking his head towards the hill we rolled down, and, to be honest, making quite an unnecessary scene. I think it was that whole ingrained Real-Men-Don’t-Ask-For¬-Directions trait being tested. Finally, I think she’s had enough, because she says, “Arschgesicht,” takes the map from him, turns it right side up, snorts, gives it back and turns her back on him.

Is the Wayfarer trend still going strong? I find myself without a pair. Looking forward to your next installment in a week! I don’t think I’m seasoned enough to leave wine notes of worth, but you should check out some of the wines I’ve rated—the bubbly is appropriate anytime, anywhere.

Cheers!

-Caitelin
"
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Hey Snoothers. My name is Ryan Evans and I'm a Hospitality major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I'm part of their new Beverage minor program, which covers wine, beer, and...