RUEDA WINE SEMINARS IN SWITZERLAND

Five Rueda Seminaris will take place in Switzerland N November 17th. :CHUR  üN November 18th.:GENÈVE Y GLION  N November 22nd.:VITZNAU  November 23 rd.:THUN N November 24 th:ZURICH 

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 …