martedì 25 novembre 2014

SPECIAL OFFER:Christmas&New Year@the castle

Your remote time experience for the festive season. 


If you are a charming-stay countryside type, looking for an exclusive retreat over Christmas 2014 and New Year 2014-15, there is a special opportunity waiting for you. 

Take advantage of the intimate atmosphere ideal for all the family and friends: why not taking over some of the Suites & Apartments of the castle grounds, living a place of history, tasting nobles wines and walking off the Christmas pudding by taking a stroll in the 5 acres of Castello di Gabiano’s woodland gardens.



Stays from 4 nights to 14 nights are available for the 2014 festive season (from 168 euro per room per night). 




During the festive period the Restaurant “3 clocks”, located in the beautiful XIII century stately home, will be open for you for a tasty menu including local dishes matched with the wines produced at the castle.


The prices include VAT, linen, heating and electricity for up to 16 guests in our 4 double en-suite bedrooms, and 2 apartment with twin bedroom and double bedroom each with private bathroom. 
We are looking forward to celebrate with you this magic period of the year.

Please do not hesitate to contact our reception for any further information or assistance:
accoglienza@castellodigabiano.com
+390142945004

mercoledì 12 novembre 2014

Our wines at the Xinhua Bookstore: the largest and only country-wide bookstore chain in China!

We are pleased to inform our customers that we recently entered in one of the major and oldest bookstore chain in China, the Xinhua Bookstore where our wines are now available for the tasting and purchase. Thanks again to the promotional effort of the Guandong Big Coast, our importer company.

For the passionate and curious, here you find more information from the Wikipedia official page:

History
Xinhua Bookstore (in Chinese: 华书店) was originally established as Guanghua Bookstore (in Chinese: 华书店) in 1937 in Yan'an under the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. In 1942, Guanghua Bookstore changed its name to Xinhua Bookstore.
The four Chinese letter "Xin-hua Shu-dian" logo was made in brush writing in 1948 by Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1951, during the First All-China Publishing Administration Conference, it was decided to be divided into People's Publishing House, Xinhua Bookstore and Xinhua Publishing Plant.
From 2003, Xinhua Bookstore is organized under the China Publishing Group (in Chinese: 中国出版集) and owns the largest chain of bookstores in China. As China's only country-wide distribution channel of books, magazines and CDs–DVDs, it has an important role of the mass media, in addition to the role of the regular "bookstore".
In 2006, there were 14,000 Xinhua bookstores in China. Its main store is now in Xicheng District in Beijing.
Xinhua Bookstore has its overseas subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Macao, with branches also in New York (third shop opened in November 2010), San Diego, and London.

Multiple distribution channels
In the larger cities in China, Xinhua Bookstore has opened "Foreign Language Bookstores" (in Chinese: 外文书店) which sell books and CDs for learning foreign languages. Books published in foreign countries are not sold in China because of the price reasons, and magazine from foreign countries are prohibited for distribution for the political reasons.

Xinhua Bookstore's Provincial Publishing Companies have recently begun opening different distribution channels, such as Northern Book Town (in Chinese: 北方图书城) in Liaoning Province and Boku Book Town Chinese: 库书城 in Zhejiang Province.