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The wine tourism season in Bordeaux is launched!
Mid-May the Bordeaux Tourist Office launches its wine tourism season: discovery...
The new GWC Global Flash is issued!
For the last 3 years, the Great Wine Capitals Global Network has launched an International Student Research Grant, which aim is to promote excellence and innovativeness in wine research. The grants are awarded to two students with a prize of 4.500 Euros per project related to 'sustainable development' or 'wine tourism and marketing' in a region...
Porto Best Of Wine Tourism 2012 awards ceremony
The Best Of Wine Tourism 2012 awards ceremony will take place on 18 April, at 17:00, at the Town Hall, in the D. Maria Room.
The winners of the Best Of Wine Tourism awards in 2012 are:
- International Award - Quinta do Portal – Architecture and Ladscapes
- National Awards (by alphabetical order) - Casa Semarkinhas...
Napa Vintners Announce Auction Napa Valley 2012
Barrel Tasting at Jarvis Winery; Live Auction at Meadowood; Lunch and Dinner Prepared by Chefs Thomas Keller and Emeril Lagasse; and More!
Auction Napa Valley, the annual community fundraiser hosted by the Napa Valley Vintners (NVV), taking place this year from May 31-June 3--announces that Four-Day Passport and Three-Day Package tickets...
Portuguese wine conglomerate now has a presence in four Great Wine Capitals regions
The Great Wine Capitals Global Network has a good reason to celebrate. Sogrape, Portugal’s leading wine group recently announced the purchase of Bodegas Lan, one of Rioja’s leading wineries.
Sogrape are the owners of Mateus rosé, Port producers Ferreira, Offley and Sandeman as well as Framingham in Marlborough (New Zealand) and Finca...
Porto – Best European Destination 2012
The city of Porto has just been elected Best European Destination 2012 by European consumers, during an online voting procedure, organized by European Consumers Choice.
Chosen among twenty candidates previous selected by a jury of that organization, Porto is now number one in the top ten: Porto, Vienna, Dubrovnik, Prague, Brussels,...
Opening of The Pavilion
Melton Estate, a boutique winery in West Melton Christchurch, is pleased to announce the opening of “The Pavilion” – an all-weather outdoor winery dining area, event space and wedding chapel. “The Pavilion is a fantastic addition to our modern winery building, and further emphasizes our total focus on offering the very best wine hospitality...
Great Wine Capitals links strengthened as Sogrape buys Rioja's Lan
The Great Wine Capitals Global Network has a good reason to celebrate. Sogrape, Portugal's leading wine group recently announced the purchase of Bodegas Lan, one of Rioja's leading wineries.
The purchase price was not revealed but industry insiders estimate that it's between $60 and $72 million.
Sogrape are the owners of Mateus...
Bordeaux has launched the 10th edition of the Best Of Wine Tourism contest
The Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched the 10th edition of the Best Of Wine Tourism contest early April.
All properties in Bordeaux and in the Aquitaine region can apply, as long as they have signed the "Vignobles & Chais en Bordelais" Charter or participate in the "Destination Vignobles" program.
Wineries...
Canterbury Wine Award 2012
Wine of Canterbury have recently announced that entries are currently open for the inaugural Canterbury Wine Awards. The show is the first of its kind in the region sets out to promote the quality of Canterbury's wine.
The idea for using an awards programme for acknowledging the quality of wines coming from the region was first mooted at...
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