Next International Cool Climate Symposium taking place in the UK

“It will be difficult to organize the conference but it was high time that we are hosting the symposium”, Chris Foss, manager of the wine department at the Susses Plumpton College, comments the decision. The Sussex Plumpton College will organize wine tours accompanying the event. The plenary sessions, different workshops as well as most of the networking activities will take place in Brighton, quite near the most important cultivation areas of the UK.

The International Cool Climate Symposium Commission substantiates the choice of the UK as hosting wine country by mentioning that, during the past 15 years, English sparkling wines continually had been highly awarded. Moreover, the UK was one of the most important wine markets and a center for wine education.

“The concept of the symposium in the UK will be tailored for innovative, progressive vintners who are interested in climatic areas and climate wines”, Mr. Foss explains. “Besides the English vintners, whose production of sparkling wines for 2016 is being estimated by experts to 5 to 6 million bottles, we will particularly invite Belgium, the Netherlands as well as all Baltic states and as well Slovenia and Slovakia to take part in the event.”

The ICCS, which ended on Sunday, has successfully been arranged in Hobart by the Tasmania Wine Association, the Australian Wine Research Institute and the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research. So far, the institution founded in 1984 has met almost exclusively in the US, once in New Zealand, and has only one single time been guest in Europe – at that time the German wine scene organized the symposium in Mainz. In 2016, the 9th International Cool Climate Symposium will take place immediately after the International Wine Fair in Mai.. (red.yoopress)