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17.01.11

Wine.Food.Hotel Launches Internet TV Channel with Sony


Lifestyle video website Wine.Food.Hotel has partnered with Sony to launch a dedicated Internet TV channel on the media giants new IPTV platform.

The Wine.Food.Hotel IPTV channel showcases inspiring, entertaining and informative videos from leading chefs, winemakers and hoteliers while unearthing exciting and interesting new travel destinations in Australia, New Zealand and across the globe.

Wine.Food.Hotel director Kylee Vowles said Sony IPTV audiences, accessing the network simply by connecting to the Internet, will be treated to a great range of video content by contributing chefs and interviews with industry leaders.

Contributing chefs include Ben Shewry from Attica; there˙s interviews with chefs like Peter Gilmore on his new book Quay; see Paul Wilson (Middle Park Hotel) talking fish and sustainability with food author Hilary McNevin; and go mushroom hunting with Aaron Turner (Loam Restaurant), and get in the kitchen with food author Lyndey Milan and get an learn to cook Southern Italian with the Joseph Vargetto from Mezzo Bar and Grill, as well as Karen Martini cooking a dish from her lastest book Feasting, along with Tom Kime showing us how to cook his favourite sustainable seafood recipes and Amigos gives us an insight to matching tequila with food, she said.

Viewers can discover the Australian First Families of Wine series; follow the Ray Jordan˙s Series of Western Australian Wineries; learn how to match wine with food with winemakers such as Neil Prentice of Hollys Garden and chef Dylan Roberts; as well as videos from leading luxury Australian lodges such as Saffire Lodge (Tasmania), Bamarru Plains (Northern Territory), Wolgan Valley (New South Wales), True North Cruises and Southern Ocean Lodge (South Australia).

Our aim is to feature content currently unavailable via on the mainstream TV channels or pay-tv.

Kylee Vowles said Wine.Food.Hotel started as an internet video channel in 2008 and has proudly progressed to being a dedicated channel on the Sony platform.

It˙s an exciting partnership with Sony and brilliant to join this emerging innovative technology platform in Australia and New Zealand, she said. On the Sony IPTV platform, our brand will sit alongside brands such as YouTube, Billabong, SBS, ABC, Tom Ford and a host of others.

We see this as a real opportunity to project our tourism and hospitality industry partners on the channel, talking directly to an audience passionate about learning more about wine, food, hotels and travel and encourage brand, businesses and bodies to get in touch if they have content they would like to contribute to the channel.

Check it out -- to view the monthly program for the Wine.Food.Hotel Internet TV Channel go to:
www.sony.com.au - and take the prompts to internet TV.
Fifteen new videos are uploaded each week, five for each category of wine, food and hotels.

To watch the new Wine.Food.Hotel Internet TV Channel just purchase a Sony Bravia Internet TV or Blu-Ray player and connect the product to the Internet.

View the Sony BRAVIA Internet TV advert (PDF)
Read this article from the Australian (PDF)

For further information:

Kylee Vowles, Director & Co-Founder of Wine.Food.Hotel [email protected].

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