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Dalmatia Wine Expo 2013, 3-4- May - Makarska, Croatia

For sure the most charming wine event

In Hvar Island I met a guy, who saw 10 years ago an advertisement about Croatia – “The Mediterranean ...more














II. Orange Wine Festival 2013, 26 April – Izola, Slovenia

Nature Friendly Wine Should be Healthy in the Bottle

Organizers wrote »Orange has become the fourth wine colour. Orange wines are white wines produced using red wine production ...more












Zagreb Wine Gourmet Weekend 2013 (From 19 to 20 April)

Wine Strategy still Burning Rubber

Very similar atmosphere - arty feeling comparing to last year’s first Zagreb Wine Gourmet Weekend.  I think  the ...more












Portugieser Du Monde 12-13 April 2013 - Pécs, Hungary

Guilty Pleasure Portugieser Wine

The first Portugieser Du Monde wine competition and festival took place in April on the 12th and 13th at the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter ...more














Düsseldorf  ProWein 2013 (From 24 to 26 March)
 
Wine United Here

ProWein 2013 again reconnected wines from around the world. Trade visitors from throughout the world (more than 44,000; ProWein 2012: 40,667 visitors) ...more













9. Belgrade Wine Salon In Vino 2012 (Hotel Hyatt Regency, Beograd, Serbia, 21.-22 december 2012)

Wine Could be Treated as Business Too

Beograd known as the place, where knowledge was and it’s thankfully still very important in all levels of life. So it is no wonder, that wine lovers ...more












Zagreb International festival of Wine and Culinary Art (From 30. November to 1. December 2012)

Feel the CRO Wine Strategy in Action

Zagreb VinoCOM is an International Festival of Wine and Culinary art event. It is 7 years old and it’s the biggest and the most important ...more












Ljubljana, Slovenia - Slovenian Wine Festival (November 22 - 23, 2012)

White, Rose, Red & Orange Wines mostly from Slovenia

Slovenian Wine Festival is the event with 15 years of tradition. It’s not the biggest (VinDel in Maribor is larger), but it’s some say ...more












The32nd London International Wine Fair 2012 - LIWF (From 22 to 24 May)

Natural Wines are (finnaly) Getting More Attention

Organizers have finally started to realize, that the exhibition in such form, as we knew it until now, no longer attracted ...more













Zagreb Wine Gourmet Weekend 2012 (from 13 to 15 April)

Wine is / as Art

Zagreb Wine Gourmet Weekend is a new international festival of wine and food which was for the ...more













Verona Vinitaly 2012, (from 25 to 28 March)

Updating the taste of Italy

Visiting Vinitaly is always a special event. Manny people complaining it’s too big. I say - well Italy is one of the ...more













Düsseldorf ProWein 2012 (From 4 to 6 March)

Green & Fair Trade are In

ProWein 2012 brought together 3,930 exhibitors from some 50 countries and considerably more than 40,000 trade visitors from throughout the world. Trade visitors and exhibitors ...more











Ljubljana, Slovenia - Slovenian Wine Festival (November 17 - 18, 2011)

Wine and Food are Our Best Friends

It’s great, that Ljubljana is hosting for 14 years Wine Festival & for 4 years Culinary festival. This year it was held (only) in Grand hotel Union. There were represented 150 wineries,  ...more












awc vienna International Wine Challenge 2011 (3 November)

The World’s Largest Wine Valuation

awc vienna is the world’s largest wine valuation – more than 9.600 wines from 36 countries -  and the only international wine valuation in Austria  ...more












The London International Wine Fair (LIWF) 2011 (from 17 to 19 May)

 

Less is More?

 

Fair is every year smaller and smaller. But sometimes less is more? Hm. However, winemakers were more or less satisfied, ...more













Verona Vinitaly 2011, (from 7 to 19 April)

Food and wine - Still a good match

I am always amazed how a sunny warm day and impeccable arranged stands can make your day even before wine tastings begin. This year Vinitaly was ..more













Düsseldorf  ProWein 2011 (From 27 to 29 March)

Sustainability and organic wine growing

Over 3,600 exhibitors from some 50 countries were present at ProWein. This corresponded to an increase of about 200 suppliers over ...more













Ljubljana, Slovenia - Slovenian Wine Festival (18 - 19 November, 2010)

Slovenian Wines Taste is Multikulti

As you probably know, Slovenia is very small country, only 2 million people, mostly Slovenians, but our wines ..more













Merano, Italy - 19th Merano WineFestival 2010 (November 6-8)

Exclusive Meeting Place

“The Merano WineFestival, founded and organised by Helmuth Köcher, is one of the most exclusive and most elegant oenogastronomic ..more













Merano - bio&dinamica 2010 (November 5)

Some People Love it, Some People Don’t Understand it

Bio&dynamica was the opening event of the 19th MeranoWineFestival. 50 specially chosen ..more













Sarajevo – Wine Festival 2010 (October 29 – 30)
 
Where Wine Completes Relaxed Lifestyle

Sarajevo, city of many cultures, held an internatinal wine festival with a touch of culinary art ..more
 











Vienna
– VieVinum International Wine Festival 2010 (May 29 – 31)
 

Taste of Austrian Culture

 

When I first visited VieVinum, that was in 2004, I was astonished (wine festival is held every 2 years in Hofburg - The Habsburg’s former imperial residence). I said to my self – well done Austrians! ..more










 
 
The London International Wine Fair (LIWF) 2010 (18 - 20 May)

 

Faced with  the sea of wine

 

I just came from the London international wine fair, which was held from 18 – 20 May 2010. That was mine third presence there and it was also Fair Thirty Years ...more 
 
 




 
 

 
 

Düsseldorf  ProWein 2010 (21 – 23 March)

 

Where world of wine meets

 

Well, ProWein … hm, wine fair, where you can taste wine from all over the world at the same place. Its very serious and huge fair (3,300 exhibitors and 36,000 trade visitors), but if you ...more
 
 
 
 
 
 






















































































   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 






















































































  
 
 
 
  
 
 
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