A person who I admire

Hi everybody!!! Today I must talk you about somebody on my field who I admire. Well, actually it was hard because I´m not a person who cares very much about work that other people did in my career. So, I did must research a bit and I found a guy who attract my attention.

Marcelo Pino:

He was choosen the best sommelier from Chile for the second year and he´s gonna represent the country in the 2015 Pan Americans Competitions (to be held in Santiago) and in 2016 Sommelier World (in Mendoza, Argentina). This boy is not agricultor, but he´s cook by proffesion. After he got the 2011 Best Sommelier from Chile degree, Pino represented at the country in the 2012 Brazil Pan American, being the eighth in America, according to International Sommelier Association. After that, he was ranked 26 among 56 countries in competition in the Japan march 2013 World Sommelier.

Further, Pino works since 2010 how sommelier and ambassador in Viña Casa Silva. In that position, he was invited to participe like a juror in the Shangai Internationa Wine Challenge. Also he writes and produce since 2010 the "Guía para Aguas en Chile" (Chile guide of waters) and he is member of "Mesa de cata" of la CAV magazine, teaching in Chile Sommelier School and adviser of different water brands.

I admire this kind of person because he has an humble origin, and he became what he is with effort and enthusiasm. He never settled and always aspire to more because he likes what he does and he have and take advantage of his talent, wich he improvement in every opportunity he has. 

Hi everybody!!

This week, we had to watch a interesting video about Food Forests.

Came a question about this topic....  It is possible to implement these systems in Chile?

Since my perspective, Chile have ALL the necessary agronomic conditions: A varied weather, richs soils (many of them from volcanic origin), the knowledge and even the agronomists´s capacity and experience. Chile is a country with a extremely huge agronomic potential and It could turns someday in a food supplier country.

But Chile has a problem. Nothing of the Chile´s advantages in this topic are gonna work because there is an obstacle that is necessary overcome to go ahead with such proyects............... Chile....has not....culture.

At least for now, we have not the requested ecological approach. Our country is focused in maximize the production and exporting to another countries. Although arguably there is a growing intention on implement more environmentally friendly solutions, are the big companies and the leaders, they who runs the country, who take the final decision, and the prime always is "produce the most possible right now, Who cares about sustainability?" It needs a long time and territory to carry out something like that, but who is gonna fund It?

So, to implement a proyect like food forests, is necessary change the thinking of the population. Our duty is teach the importance of sustainability, so that future generations can cooperate to make more ecological crops and focus in a world where primes satisfy the basics requirements, and not the money

Before  we learn to run, we must learn to walk.

what do you think about all of this?

PHOTOS......PHOTOS EVERYWHERE

Hi everybody!!

Today we going to talk about the photos....you know, these fragments of memories.

I like the photos, but let be honest.... Today the photos are overrated. The problem, for me, is that a photo use to be to capture special moments. Now, thanks to technology, you take a picture about anything....every, single, useless, innecesary, not interest thing. It´s like if we are competing with everybody to see who had the best normal day So, I think that photos have lost their original objective,  and that´s kind of sad.

Anyway, there´s a lot of pictures that means something really special to us. I am not a fan of take pictures, but I´m going to look for some one that be special for me. This is gonna be hard, because the most of my special pictures are framed and not upload in internet.

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I found it!!

This is my family core, including both of my parents, my sisters and theirs boyfriends and my own girlfriend. So, that was one of that few moments in that we were all together. The reason: We were celebrating my older sisters´s pregnancy.  It´s grateful to look at this picture and see my whole family and remember that moment in that were all of us waiting to be a bigger family.

So, that is. Do you have a special picture? Not one about yourself driving to your work or one about your lunch, but one really special about your family, your friends, a special trip... something that means something for you.