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Barranco Oscuro elabora vinos auténticos en los viñedos más altos de Europa cultivados de forma natural.Barranco Oscuro produces authentic wines in the highest vineyards of Europe naturally grown.

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Ojo al timo este que sigue circulando, un email que llega de smithdarold90@gmail.com:Dear Sir/Madam,How are you? I hope this mail meets you well and in good health. I"m writing to make an inquiry.I am one of 20th members in a private wine club in the United Kingdom that we call "TERROIR ELITE CLUB". 20 of us are going to visit your place between 20TH OF AUGUST, 2022 TILL 27TH OF AUGUST, 2022 and we are staying in a house around your area. From there we will travel around and see different places and especially we are going to see some wineries, Vineyards, breweries, distilleries, Museums and extra virgin oil facilities so we wonder if it's possible to visit your facility on FRIDAY, 26TH OF AUGUST, 2022 and maybe taste some of your wines, beer, spirits, extra virgin oil or any other of your products?If you will be available on the requested date, urgently send us your quotation and total cost for the 20 persons coming to your facility for "TOUR" or "VISIT" on FRIDAY, 26TH of AUGUST, 2022.Finally, if our date is not suitable for you, get back to us since our date of visitation is still flexible.Thanks in advanceYours Faithfully,Mr. Gabriel Dawney Address: 41-45 Short's Gardens, West End, London WC2H 9AP, United KingdomNB: All replies and correspondence to be forwarded to "gabriel.dawney@yandex.com"Warning to all small business owners. Please pass this on to anyone who you know has a small business. On December 8th, 2019, I received a request from a group requesting a private tasting at Bacchus Winery:“I am one of 20th member in a private wine club in United Kingdom that we call 'Bacchus Klaus". 20 of us are going to visit your place between 8TH OF FEBRUARY, 2020 till 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 2020 and we are staying in a house around your area. “I scheduled the tasting for the 13th of February:“Feb 13 will work but it will be a private tasting as I am normally closed to the public that day. For a party of 20, I charge $10 per person ($200 for all 20). This includes tasting 6 wines where everyone is tasting the same six. It does not include the glasses to take home. If anyone in the party decides to buy bottles of wine to take with them, I credit back $5 for one bottle and $10 for two or more bottles. So if everyone purchases two bottles each (or a total of 40 bottles purchased) the tastings are complimentary.”I asked for them to call me and provide a credit card for the charges but they requested that their travel agency make payment. A certified check from Barclays showed up on December 23rd but it was not for the payment requested as you can see below. It was for 3,550 British pounds which equates to roughly $5000 US at current exchange rates.Any unsuspecting struggling small business owner might be so excited about the very generous tip and run as fast as they can to deposit the check. That would be a huge mistake. This is a fraudulent check and could provide the perpetrators with your bank private information giving them access to your bank accounts and credit card accounts.So what can be done? First, this email can be used to help make others smart to this kind of scheme so please pass it on. The contact to my winery was from a guy posing as Joseph Bradley under the email address of gabriel.dawney@yandex.com. By the way, Yandex.com is a Russian based company that sponsors illicit activities such as bank fraud and illegal banking schemes.The second thing that can be done, if they used the United States Postal system is to report it to your local postmaster and the US Postal Inspector at 877-876-2455. Once these folks make the move to use the US Postal service to do their dirty work, it becomes a federal legal issue.So much of this goes on that it is likely not going to get much traction with the feds but at least they have been informed so please take the time to report the issue.Your banks can’t do anything unless you make the move to deposit the check. Again, don’t do that because the bank computers automatically start processing and if not caught early in the process, your bank may share your bank accounting streams before it is too late to stop the process.These jerks are ruthless so don’t trust them. It is enticing because the amount of money involved but if the deal looks too good to be true, it is. Don’t fall for it and—please, if you see something, say something. ... Ver másVer menos

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2 months ago

Letter from the warBy Victor Oliinykov, CEO of Rootsroots.ua/"Dear all, hello!It’s been already one month already since the war started.The core of this letter are still partners of Roots portfolio, but I add more and more wineries who were very kind to offer their help to Ukrainian people. So for newcomers to this letters I would just shortly admit that here I share direct news from Ukraine on more or less regular basis. This time it will take you around 15-20 mins to read it all, so I provide you with small table of contents:1. Situation in Ukraine1.1 Military1.2 Safety1.3 Economical1.4 Social1.5 Political1.6 Life in the cities2. Situation in Roots3. What we think about russians4. Your help – small reportOk, here we go!1. Situation in Ukraine1.1. Military. The foto attached is from 8 or 11 March but not much on front line has changed from that time. This is the one you could probably know best from the news, so I won’t write a lot what russians did – this you know from news. But I am sure you know not enough about our success, because specially European news are writing quite conservatively on this topic. At the moment our army reports about next losses of agressor’s side: 15,000 soldiers killed, around 30,000 wounded, 1000 prisoned by Ukrainian army. (So in total 1/3 of all people forces sent to Ukraine is already unable to continue any fights), 500+ tanks, 100+ aircrafts, 120+ helicopters, 1500 armed vehicles, 250+ artillery systems, 80+ rockets systems, 40+ anti-air systems, 4 ships, 42 battle-drones. Majority of these losses are properly documented and sent to different international courts as proof of real scale of russian invasion. Even if you consider that numbers can be 20%, even 30% less (personally I believe they are 85% truth), you can imagine the numbers. It’s more than USSR lost for 10 years of war in Afganistan, more than was lost in 2 wars in Chechnia. Ukranians don’t count and don’t much proud of the number of killed people, but we very focused on destroying their technique: tanks, rocket systems, aircraft, etc. In nowadays world number of people in your army is not as much important as number of your technique, it’s level and technologies and, most important, specially trained people who know how to use it.Now shortly about the cities. North + North-East. Chernyhiv: Situation stable, but hard. We keep the city, but it’s bombed and attacked every day. Kharkyv: same, but even harder than Chernyhiv. It seems that russians have special anger against Kharkyv, because it was always considered by them as very pro-russian city. Kharkyv has population more than 1 mln people. Sumy: if you look the map, it’s a miracle that Sumy still weren’t lost. Sumy has enough defenders to secure the city, but can’t prevent russian forces to move deeper to other regions. Kyiv: well, despite many fears, Kyiv at the moment is taken only in semi-circle. At the moment, our defense has reached radius of 70km from the city on most directions, but that doesn’t mean by far it’s safe inside. You still can go inside and outside (except of curfew time. Curfew = time from 21:00 to 07:00 when civil can’t go outside their houses. Any person on street during curfew is considered an enemy and can be even shot). Everyday rockets fly to different quartiers of Kyiv, destroying buildings and killing people. During curfew my friends hear guns shooting on the streets in different quartiers. Most probably our soldiers and police are fighting different russian sabouteurs groups who enter the city. Kyiv is by far better than all cities above, but it’s still very dangerous place.South + South-East. Mykolaiv – is definitely a hero-city among Chernyhiv, Kharkiv and Sumy. They keep defence and keep it strong, providing very powerful counter-attacks. Mykolaiv today is the main gate to Odessa and all Central and Western Ukraine. Odessa – there were lots of rumors about intensive paratroopers landing and siege of Odessa, but at the moment it didn’t happen. As for today Odessa is fortified and ready to any kind of attacks, we are secure of that direction. Kherson – is currently occupied. There were different attempts to create Kherson National Republic, but local people do zero support to occupants. Only thing we afraid a lot is that they can start to evacuate people to russian territory. Mariupol – is the biggest wound in Ukrainians hearts. City of almost 400,000 people at the moment is completely destroyed. 90% of buildings have serious damages. Despite being attacked from sea, air and land, city is still under control of our army and keep defense – that’s really incredible! But hundreds of people die there every day. We can’t send any army or reinforcements there, because all south of Ukraine is a complete steppe – almost completely flat arable plane. There is no forests or hills to hide. So any big army troops will be detected and destroyed by russians as they have dominance in the sea (almost all russian warships are in Black Sea at the moment, they shoot a lot of rockets from there) and in the skies. Americans said that 70 air-chasers which we could take from Poland would not give us any advantage. We disagree. We can defend our cities, because there are buildings to hide and russians are very afraid to enter cities. But at the moment we can’t fight them on plains, where they have all aviation and sea forces and we are still much outnumbered by them. At the moment very good question is how they could reach South Ukraine at all… Two main bridges from Crimea to mainland were under our control, bridges were intensively mined and ready to be detonated in any moment. It was trained many times by our soldiers, they should have destroyed bridges in the very first moment of invasion. Somehow it wasn’t done, we are not told what have happened, but most probably it was a betrayal case…Right now, when I write this words, it was said that our army have destroyed heavy trooper warship in the occupied port of Berdiansk – “Orsk” warship. 2 more warships ran away with damages.They scarred us with Chechen soldiers, the thought we would ran away only hearing that they are close. In fact hundreds of them were killed under Gostomel, including their military general (confirmed by russian news). Their only victory is Italian restaurant “Toscana” of my friends, which they plundered and looted wine for 100,000 euro cost. Majority of Chechen soldiers are withdrawn back to Russia at the moment.Ukrainian society is like flame tornado at the moment. Chechens, russians, Byelorussians, Syrians (not seen yet), tanks, aircrafts, ships – we don’t care, we will crush, burn and destroy everything and everyone who is plundering our land. Putin thinks that bombing civil cities and killing civil people he will make Ukrainians push on government, demanding peace at whatever conditions and price is takes. But all he provokes is more anger and more redemption. He tries to shut down the fire by putting oil in it and he will fail.1.2. Safety situationA lot of you were asking if we are in a safe place. For those, whom I haven’t answered yet – unfortunately, there is no safe place in Ukraine, anywhere. There are very dangerous places, dangerous places and less dangerous places. For example, me and Alina stay in Vinnytsia, city at least 300km away from any frontline. At first, they launched 8 rockets and destroyed airport here, which had no strategic or any other value. Then, more than week ago, we literally jumped out of our beds at 04:04 – 2 rockets tried to hit a tele-tower, 1 km from us. It was really loud. They missed, by the way. Rockets they launch can fly 2000-5500km, meaning they can be anywhere. They hit Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv (several times), Rivne. All that cities are far, far away from front line. Considering the fact that they launch mostly old soviet rockets, they can hit literally everywhere. And there are still a lot of saboteurs groups in all of the countries. Several days ago they have discovered and arrested group of 8 people here, in Vinnytsia, they were collecting and sending info and details about army in this region. Regarding other things – it’s quite safe. Except of some cases of marauders at front line, Ukrainians are not foe to each other. Despite a lot of armed people on the street of every city, you feel quite safe. Of course, air sirens are every day, everywhere. Around 5-10 sirens a day. Some people go and hide in shelter, some not. Of course in Kyiv and other dangerous cities people drop everything and run to a shelters.1.3. Economical situation.Well, I think major part of Ukrainians find themselves in a state of an economical pain shock. You know, pain shock is when someone breaks his leg, but doesn’t feel the pain for some time, because his body blocked his senses so he wouldn’t lose his consciousness. More or less the same feel Ukrainians, I think. Money stopped being that important as it used to be. Most of people lost their income completely without any perspective for nearest future. Thousands and thousands businesses are blocked completely. For example, our business, Roots. Alcohol was forbidden for sale since 28 February (Only now they start to allow in some regions). We paid last salaries and we are done. Nothing on our bank account, zero income. Even if they allow us to sell wines, it will be peanuts for us. Until it’s safe and restaurants open again in Kyiv, there is no business for us. Many businesses were either destroyed or seriously damaged. Numbers of wineries were plundered and looted by russian soldiers. Our colleagues, Wine Bureau company, leading wine & spirit importer have found their warehouse completely burnt because of the missile hit. 15 million euros (cost price, not shelf price) were burnt in several hours. There are hundred cases in many spheres. But despite all this, we have some help from government (200 euros to each person who lost it’s job because of war), we help each other and definitely we don’t starve. But in general the only thing which can save our economy is retribution from arrested russian money and some kind of Marshall’s plan from Europe and USA & Canada. But, as I said before, not many think about money today. General idea is that victory first and then we will renovate and rebuild everything!1.4. Social situationWell, it’s quite stable, all people are united by one idea, one government, one nation. But I want to highlight one aspect. Our government have activated mobilization law (call to arms) since 26 February, on a third day of war. That means that any men age of 18-60 years old (except of disabled people, widowers with kids and fathers of 3+ kids) can not leave the country. On one hand, I understand why it was done, but on other hand it’s a bit too old-fashioned law, which roots from USSR. In fact, there are around 10-15 million of men in that category, without any military experience. They maybe can mobilize 200,000, maybe 300,000 maximum, giving them trainings, weapons, etc. But there are millions and millions of men who do nothing, they don’t have job (most of active jobs today are typically “women” jobs – grocery stores, pharmacies, beauty salons etc etc.), they were forced to leave their homes. Many of those who have kids sent their families abroad and returned back to their cities. But still that women, who are abroad - they are worried about their husbands, they missed them, they are very stressed and usually they have small children and parents about whom they need to care. Most part of women abroad can’t even go and work, at least until they settle everything. Well, it’s very complicated.1.5. Political situationI will not talk about politics too much. Will only say that all Ukrainians read news a lot. And there is a lot of news from Europe as well. We are very happy to read that some countries help us and to be honest we are very sad to read when some countries and companies still apply for their economical interests. Some companies not only continue to work in russia, but even threaten it’s Ukrainian head offices that they should be quiet (Metro Cash & Carry for example). We understand why some countries are afraid to send soldiers and weapons (but we hoped we have proved that Putin is not so scary as want you to think about him), but sometimes we don’t understand why some countries are so stubborn to decline buying russian gas & oil. They receive from Europe 1,1 billion of dollars EVERY DAY. All other sanctions will have no immediate or serious effect until they receive such income. I just hope you understand that this time some values should be above money. We hope that you will be able to influence your governments or at least during next elections make them disappear.1.6. Life in the cities. Well, just to make you sure that we are not in ultimate humanitarian crisis (except of regions under fights). Obviously there are less and less imported goods that you can buy, but still if you look, you can find almost everything you need. ATM has cash. Sometimes you need to wait or to try to look another one, but cash is not a problem. Moreover, cash is not much needed, in Ukraine 99% of goods can be bought by credit card. In leading supermarkets chain Silpo you can even have cash at cashdesk, you just exchange money from your credit card for cash (if they have it), without any commission. For cash you can buy only something forbidden (I am asked everyday by many people if they can buy some wine. If they are friends – yes, they can. Personally I haven’t drunk any alcohol since the first day of war, can’t think about it now. You can buy almost all kind of food. Sometimes you need to go to different stores, but it’s possible. More complicated with gluten or lactose free products (my wife Alina needs them), but even this is still possible. Petrol can be a problem, but still, can be found. During last week more and more services open. I even visited hairdresser and we finally attend gym! But most other services are closed. You can find some coffee, but restaurants are still closed as all supply chains are broken. Yesterday we caught a very strange feeling here, in Vinnytsia. We have left a grocery store, where war was evident – empty shelves, some goods missing etc. On the street it was the contrary – sunny, a lot of cars, a lot of people, laughing youth, men drinking beer. It seemed very normal life. It may be real normal life for them. But we are strangers here, our city and home is far away, so we felt a bit surrealistic feeling about all that. Only then I understood that probably the same felt people from Donetsk who left their city occupied in 2014 (Donetsk was a rich prosperous city of 1,2 mln of people)… Peace in Kyiv and real war in Donetsk, 400 km away. Now we have peace in Vinnitsia and real war in Kyiv, 300km away…2. Situation in RootsFortunately, the shortest part of this letter. All are safe, some moved their families (with your help) to Europe. We have 4 guys staying in Kyiv, all other spread around the country. We are in contact and help each other, all is good. We are small company (20 people), so it’s easy to stick together. Now we have an opportunity to move our warehouse away to the western part Ukraine. Today first 20 tons of wines are on their way. Let’s hope they travel safe.3. What we think about russians.Mr. Scholtz recently announced “Russian people should not be attacked on the streets of Europe. All we should remember that only one man is guilty in this war – Mr. Putin”. Well, we agree with the first part, civil russians indeed shouldn’t be victims of aggression in Europe without reasons, but we completely disagree with the second part. This message is now very actively moved by russians themselves. For example, group of russian famous restaurators have announced sanctions as genocide of russian people. Restaurants are not guilty, they only feed people. That is only partly true. You should never forget that despite being a regime, it’s: a) not totalitarian as in China or North Korea. b) we are talking about regime of one generation. For example, in China people are born knowing that there is only one political party in the country and there is nothing you can do with it. I mean, they really had more or less democratic elections and they really voted for him many times, the same as they voted for Edinaya Rossiya party. Today many people still SUPPORTS the war in Ukraine. So despite all our hate to russians we feel right now, most of us understand that if we want peace, if Europe and all world wants peace, russians need to grow up. They are mentally stuck in the 1960-s. Too ignorant, too arrogant, too bullish. They can be sweet and generous. I know many Europeans like russians, their “wide soul”, their rich presents etc etc. But now you see their real face. You can think that Putin is the only one who is fault, but at some point Putin and his government is only a mirror of majority of russian thoughts. As one famous American scientist of russian history said, Russia has always had great ambitions, though they never met with her real abilities. Russians should re-evaluate their place in the world and, unfortunately to them, realize that it’s not so high as they thought before.I am not wise enough to say if sanctions will help them to do that. But if one methods don’t work, you need to look for another ones. Despite even sanctions from 2014, their economy grown every year, russians wellness grown as well. Average russian is much richer than average Ukrainian. So why they haven’t fought for it, why they don’t protest, why they don’t make revolution. Maybe because they don’t want it. They had money, comfort. Now, as we say, refrigerator should win the war against the TV-screen. I can only wish them good luck in it. Changing yourself, accepting your faults is a very hard job, but they need to do it.One more reason to say that we are different. Ukrainians are ready to fight for their rights and freedom even when economy is growing. For example, in 2004 (Orange revolution against Yanukovych from made frauds on elections – won by Ukrainian people) and in 2014 (Revolution of Dignity) Ukrainian economy was steadily growing every year. And obviously it seriously dropped down after every revolution. But we are ready to pay this price every time.Russians need to grow up and change, they need to take responsibility for their country at last.4. Your help, small report.At the moment we have helped to find temporary home for about 100 people. Maybe a bit more. Every room, every apartment or every house you give is very important. We are very thankful to every of you who agreed to help! Currently most active are Portugal and Austria, thank you guys! But we have brave people who travelled for new home to Galicia and Valencia, we have good friends in Champagne, in Piedmont and Alto Adige. My personal hero is Peter Heilbron from small winery Tenuta Bellafonte in Umbria (wines are definitely worth a try), who alone adopted 3 families from Ukraine! We are thankful to everyone! If you can’t host anyone yourself (which of course can happen, we perfectly understand), you ask your neighbor, your colleague, your winemaking organization. For example, we wrote a letter to Byodin. Small biodynamic group of mostly Germain speaking wine makers (Austria, Germany, Alto Adige and maybe Switzerland, I am not sure…), the next day I had 8 letters (!) from people offering help (they are here, in the address list of this letter. Now we wrote a letter to VDP in Germany. Maybe you have other ideas.We are also very thankful for any money support you send us. We try to use it wisely, keeping some for future cases, no one knows for how long this war will be. Currently we think that for around 3-6 more months…If you wanted to send us something but had no time – probably SWIFT is not working anymore, because most of European banks blocked transfers to Ukraine (not really friendly, to be honest). But you can still use SEPA Euro payment for my UK account. It’s even faster and cheaper. Also at last Ukrainians can receive money through Pay Pal! I’ve received several transfers from USA, but I know not all European countries support this at the moment. You can find me in Pay Pal at: oliinykov.v@gmail.com or +380931857669P.S. I know some of you were a bit worried that I wasn’t writing you e-mails for more than 10 days. Well, I know you all have your private life and it’s away from war. I don’t want to interrupt your peace with too many messages from me.P.P.S. as usually, I add you some photos and funny memes from Ukraine. You can find me and Alina finally at GYM! Also we have celebrated our first war birthday (Alina is 33 now). The guy I phoned was really surprised that I want BALLOONS. But still, he reacted and brought them to me! Life goes on! Victory in reserved for us!Viktor Oliinykov" ... Ver másVer menos

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