MADE IN ITALY WINE TASTING TOUR IN AMSTERDAM!
WARM AANBEVOLEN!
Hotel NH Musica ligt in Amsterdam Zuid (in de buurt van het World Trade Center).
Vraag de officiële uitnodiging tevens entreebewijs bij Nicole & Paola
PROWEIN 2013: BUSY, SUCCESSFUL AND INSPIRING (9)
Three days long, 44000 professional visitors from all over the world gathered at ProWein in Düsseldorf; nearly 3500 more visitors than in 2012, 4783 exhibitors from 48 countries. I enjoyed it very much, especially because I had some beautiful and very enticing (re) discoveries!
ITALY
CANTINA DI SOAVE – ROCCA SVEVA (Veneto)
It was a great honour and pleasure to meet the living legend Magda Amer Mazerolles alias @LeVinParfait at the Cantina di Soave stand. She is a ‘purrfect’ and logic reinforcement of the social media team at the Cantina. We tasted as previously agreed a few wines from the top-segment project of the Cantina di Soave, BORGO ROCCA SVEVA. Soon, we got the visit of Dottore Luca Sabatini, the dynamic and charismatic Export Director of the Cantina di Soave. A few more wines followed…
The Cantina di Soave is a major player in the Italian wine industry. Founded in 1898, this cooperative winery is nowadays one of the best, biggest and most dynamic wineries from Italy. The 2.200 member-partners own in total some 6,000 hectares of vineyards in the Verona region. The wines are vinified (and aged) in 6 locations: Via Roma, Viale Vittoria, Cazzano di Tramigna, Illasi, Montecchia di Crosara and… Borgo Rocca Sveva. The assortment of produced wines is huge, from Soave wines to Valpolicella, sparkling wines and more recently Durello wines. Besides the 2.200 member-partners, Cantina di Soave employs 164 technicians and a big team of sales, export, PR and media specialists. The winery exports wines in more than 50 countries in the world. 30 million bottles are produced every year, representing more than 100 million Euros of joint revenues! In 2003 the Cantina launched a new project, Borgo Rocca Sveva: a new cellar with not less than 2500 square meters of underground tunnels carved in the rocks, holding 150 barriques and large ‘botti’ casks combined with study facilities and experimental vineyard, a wine tourism and conference / events centre and a botanical garden. The Cantina di Soave manages nearly half of the Soave DOC vineyards, more than 40% of the Soave Classico DOC, around 50% of the Valpolicella DOC and 70% of the Lessini Durello DOC. Impossible to ignore them with their annual production of 30 million of bottles …
A big part of the produced wine is sold in bulk. Only the best products are bottled and aged at the winery. More information on this winery in this CORPORATE VIDEO
PROWEIN 2013: BUSY, SUCCESSFUL AND INSPIRING (8)
Three days long, 44000 professional visitors from all over the world gathered at ProWein in Düsseldorf; nearly 3500 more visitors than in 2012, 4783 exhibitors from 48 countries. I enjoyed it very much, especially because I had some beautiful and very enticing (re) discoveries!
PORTUGAL
Portugal is back again on the world wine scene, and how! Very few wine producing countries offer such a diversity of styles, taste and price like Portugal does! The quality is enormously increased in the past decades after some difficult times. Portugal is alive and kicking! I am very glad about that!
HERDADE DE ESPORÃO (Alentejo)
Thanks to the very charming and kind Caroline Derler from Wine & Partners a quick tasting and interesting interview with David Baverstock (Chief Winemaker). I knew this company from name but never had the opportunity yet to taste the wines. And what could be better than tasting those wines wine the Chief Winemaker, awarded as ‘Best oenologist in Portugal 2012’.
David Baverstock – © Esporão
PROWEIN 2013: BUSY, SUCCESSFUL AND INSPIRING (7)
Three days long, not less than 44,000 professional visitors from all over the world gathered at ProWein in Düsseldorf. This is good news for this very well organized wine fair in these difficult economic times: nearly 3,500 more visitors than in 2012, 4,783 exhibitors from 48 countries. (…). I enjoyed it very much, especially because I had some beautiful and very enticing (re) discoveries!
PORTUGAL
Portugal is back again on the world wine scene, and how! Very little wine producing countries offer such a diversity of styles, taste and price like Portugal does! The quality is enormously increased in the past decades after some difficult times. Portugal is alive and kicking! I am very glad about that!
QUINTA DE GOMARIZ (Vinho Verde):
I tasted some very nice wines of this Quinta during the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2012 in Guimarães. I was impressed by the freshness and balance of the wines… A message on #winelover (facebook group) just caught my attention: #winelover Vitor Mendes (Export Manager of Quinta de Gomariz) invited us to visit him and taste the wines at the Vinho Verde stand. Of course, I couldn’t refuse! Such a nice open invitation from such a decent and never pushing guy, always good!
Photo credits © Düsseldorf Messe
PROWEIN 2013: BUSY, SUCCESSFUL AND INSPIRING (6)
Three days long, 44,000 professional visitors from all over the world gathered at ProWein in Düsseldorf. This is good news for this very well organized wine fair in these difficult economic times: nearly 3,500 more visitors than in 2012, 4,783 exhibitors from 48 countries. (…) I enjoyed it very much, especially because I had some beautiful and very enticing (re) discoveries!
PORTUGAL
Portugal is back again on the world wine scene, and how! Very little wine producing countries offer such a diversity of styles, taste and price like Portugal does! The quality is enormously increased in the past decades after some difficult times. Portugal is alive and kicking! I am very glad about that! Unfortunately, I had not much time and had to make a selection. I visited only 3 stands for different reasons…
APHROS (f.k.a. AFROS, Vinho Verde) This was a ‘must do’ for me, I loved the 2 Afros wines I tasted from this winery (see HERE) and I just had to discover the rest of the assortment. My visit to Guimarães earlier in 2012 for the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles changed my vision on Vinho Verde completely! Of course, there is still a big bulk of cheap and wimpy wines in that region, but also so many real beauties! AFROS wines were the best I tasted yet from this region! You can imagine that my expectations on the rest of the wines were quite high!
