MEGAVINO: Consumer Fair

PLACE: Bruselas Expo DATE:  October 21-24, 2011 MEGAVINO is the biggest wine fair in the BENELUX (Belgium, holland and Luxemburg) 

HOLLAND: KLASSIEK EUROPE

Klassiek Europa is a wine tasting event of one day, especially for consumers, organized each year in October at the Palace Hotel in Noordwijk. Around 25 importers are present to showcase their wines. The theme of the wine tasting is “Classic Europe”, so only wines from Europe are shown. Around 600 very interested consumers and some people from trade and press …

The Rueda 2011 harvest is now finished, producing a crop of 75 million kilos of grapes.

The precocity of the vine-growing cycle and high temperatures in summer led to very early harvesting dates. The health of the grapes as they came into the wineries was excellent. The 2011 vintage was one of the earliest on record in the Rueda appellation, having begun on August 23rd and finished on October 7th. The absence of cold weather during March and April caused early and fast vine …

SEMINARS & COMMENTED TASTINGS

Geisenheim (13th, may) Bachelor for International Wine Business  Hamburgo (11th july ) – DW S (German Wine and Sommelier School – C.C. Koblenz). Special Seminar for Sommeliers  IHK-certified . Buhrman – Winebank  (26th september) Kollmann – Voice of Wine (17th & 18th september – 24th & 25th september – 8th & 9th october – 14th …

ROMANTIK HOTELS & RESTAURANTS COOPERATION

With the cooperation with the well known, high class chain Romantik Hotels the white wine region D.O. Rueda shall become well better known among two target groups: consumers and hotel staff/ management in Germany and Switzerland. The focus is laid on the Verdejo wines. During the special Rueda week guests have the unique opportunity to enjoy Rueda wines in perfect combination with well matching …

CONSUMER MEET RUEDA

Gastronomic weeks with Rueda Wines. Restaurants:  Frankfurt – restaurant Comedor Leipzig – restaurant Michaelis Hamburg – restaurant Vlet Stuttgart – restaurant Die Speisemeisterei

TOUR DE MENU – COLONIA / TOUR DE GUSTO – DUSSELDORF

Gastronomic Weeks with Rueda wines: 9th, September – 3rd, October The target of the special weeks is to cooperate with selected restaurants to make the white wine region D.O. Rueda better known among consumers in the metropolitan area of Dusseldorf/ Cologne. The focus is laid upon the wines made from the Verdejo grape. During special Rueda weeks the restaurant guests have the unique …