I INTERNATIONAL WINE COMIC COMPETITION

In order to create a new way to incorporate design and creativity from the talent of many wine lovers and fans, as well as publicists, this week the I International Wine Comic Competition (I Concurso Internacional de Comics del Vino) was launched. This initiative was promoted by the website AndesWines.com as a request of hundreds of questions from users regarding this new way to show wine culture, which has the Asian market revolutionized.
One of the main reasons to create this competition was the big success that wine comic strips have had in Japan and Asia, where there are a whole culture and fans of these graphic gambles, incorporating wine in their adventures, searching for the best wine of the world, for instance, and reaching young consumers and professionals over 25 years old who are just starting to know wine as an option to consume.

The competition will be open to all people, besides Design, Agronomy and Enology Faculties all over the world for those who want to make a comic having wine as a focal point.

Categories of I International Wine Comic Competition will be grape harvest, wine myths and legends, stories and wine characters. For those who are interested in participate can request the rules of the competition at andes@andeswines.com, which will be directly sent.

The spread of the competition at international level has already started in different countries, such as Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, United States, Europe, and Asia with the purpose of reaching a big call, making wine be the core subject. In order to reinforce the internationalization of the competition, a world Facebook community was already created called “andes wines”, where participants are now interacting with one another.

The process of the reception will be on February 16, 2009, and it will be extended until July 31, 2009. Among prizes, there will be US$500 for the best work and a comic publication in http://www.andeswines.com, in English and Spanish, in addition to many other gifts that will be informed during the next weeks.

Andes Wines Communications ™
(56) 9 – 9-219 7117
andes@andeswines.com

Grapes are good…wine even better!!!