WINE EVENTS

Decanter World Wine Awards 2012 has begun

UK (London) - With more than 12,000 participating and rated wines, the Decanter World Wine Award (DWWA) has turned into the largest international wine competition. This year, all sorts of wines from at least 25 wine nations will be rated by the jury that consists of Steven Spurrier as well as a fifth of the world's Masters of Wine highly.  

PROWEIN-SPECIAL: Würzburg winery Juliusspital - brilliant fruit and shining minerals

GERMANY (Würzburg) - "The Juliusspital will have some of it's 2011range of products just in time for the 2011 ProWein", says a press statement. This sure makes us curious and we wanted to find out...

FORUM VINI – Wine and know-how

GERMANY (Munich) - Which vine types grow in Lebanon? How is wine grown in Bordelais? How do I recognize a good wine? These and more questions will be answered at the International Wine Fair FORUM VINI...

1st International Pinot Noir Symposium

DEUTSCHLAND (Bad Neuenahr / Ahrweiler) - Germany's Ahr Valley will be the site of the 1st International Pinot Noir Symposium 24-26 February 2012. The global elite of Pinot Noir producers will meet...

"Tackling instead of waiting" – MUNDUSvini Wine-Tourism-Conference

GERMANY (Neustadt / Weinstrasse) – “Tackling instead of waiting” is the theme at the first MUNDUSvini Wine Tourism Conference on February 2nd and 3rd 2011 in Neustadt/ Weinstrasse (...

Decanter World Wine Awards 2012 has begun

UK (London) - With more than 12,000 participating and rated wines, the Decanter World Wine Award (DWWA) has turned into the largest international wine competition. This year, all sorts of wines from at...

German pinot noirs assert themselves as well internationally

UK (London) - On the initiative of the Deutsche Weininstitut (German Wine Institute; DWI), a concealed comparative tasting of 20 international top pinot noirs and 20 German top pinot noirs took place...

Ribera del Duero criticized despite success

UK (London) - Ribera del Duero's reputation has been exposed to a lot of criticism lately. After an important jury tasting of 106 wines from vintage 2007, which was initiated by the Decanter, the...

Chardonnay from the Burgundy or Australia? Decanter says Australia!

UK (London) - On behalf of Decanter, a British jury tasted 116 Australian wines from the vintages 2007, 08 and 09 and they came to a surprising conclusion: Australian Chardonnay has never been better...

Dreamjob sommelier

Germany (Bad Neuenahr/Ahrweiler) - In top-quality restaurants, expertise is of prime importance. A profound and practice-oriented know how helps to put the daily works in the restaurant into practice...

VieVinum - wein.pur seminar

AUSTRIA (Vienna) - Alexander Magrutsch, chief editor at the Austrian magazine wein.pur and Eva Raps, chief executive of the VDP (Verband deutscher Praedikatsweingueter - association of German certified...

Donation campaign – connoisseurs of wine help Cinque Terre, which is in distress

ITALY (Lamporecchio) - After blazes, political intrigues and floods, the Cinque Terre region, Unesco world heritage and unique wine growing region, is on the verge of ruin. Destroyed vineyards,...

Château Guiraud hosts Chinese moon fest

FRANCE (Bordeaux) - Robert Peugeot, Olivier Bernard, Stephan von Neipperg and Xavier Planty, all owners of the Grand Cru Classé Château Guirand in Sauternes, are hosting a „Fete de la Luna...

Movie star Alain Delon puts his legendary stocks of wine up for auction

FRANCE (Paris) - The French movie actor Alain Delon is disposing of his legendary wine stocks, which he had been collecting over decades. As the auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr announced on Friday,...

Is Asia tired of noble wines?

CHINA (Hong Kong) - For the first time since the launch of Sotheby's wine auction in China, not all tickets were sold, which -according to auction house experts- is due to a stabilizing market....

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