Winicjatywa

Winicjatywa is Poland’s no. 1 consumer wine resource. Started in January 2012 is has rocketed to the market leader position with over 30% growth each quarter. As of December 2013 is has 50K readers / month. We also act as a wine events agency, organiser of top-class wine tastings for trade & consumers. We provide cutting-edge Polish wine market intelligence, brand promotion & wine education campaigns. We have the most up-to-date register of 1,000 wine importers in Poland, and provide a free wine events calendar and wine shops map of Poland with over 700 references. More exciting business tools are coming in 2014. Our happy clients include Wines of Argentina, Wines of California, Wines of Germany, Piedmont, Sicily, Languedoc & Tokaj. Organising a wine event? Want to introduce your brand to one of Europe’s top prospective market with 38m consumers? Seeking reliable independent market data? Let’s see how we can help. Winicjatywa was founded in January 2012 by Poland’s two most esteemed wine writers and journalists, Wojciech Bońkowski & Marek Bieńczyk (co-authors of best-selling book Wines of Europe, 2003–2008). Marek Bieńczyk is the pioneers of Polish wine journalist with over 15 years’ experience. Wojciech Bońkowski, experienced international wine writer and judge also writing in English at www.bonkowski.me and www.timatkin.com, has been instrumental in all the major initatives on the Polish wine market of the last decade, including the printed Magazyn Wino (Deputy Editor 2002–2010), wine competitions and events as well as the Polish Vintners Convention, and has successfully campaigned for the recognition of Polish wine by the government in 2011. Together, Bońkowski & Bieńczyk decided to take their experience to a new level, and founded leading consumer wine website Winicjatywa in 2012.