This year’s VieVinum expo has demonstrated that Austria’s wine industry is becoming increasingly attractive to the global professional community: 16,000 visitors, 1,200 wine experts from 58 countries responded to the invitation and came to Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, setting a new exhibition attendance record. Drinks+ columnist was among the international journalists invited from all around the world.
Per Karlsson, a member of the Wine Travel Awards community (this year his wife Britt Karlsson took part in the WTA as a nominee in the Top Guide category, and his travel agency BKWine Tours was nominated for Travel Operator of the Year), shared with D+ his article published on the portal www.bkwinetours.com.
The Wine Travel Awards Ceremony in London is a prestigious event that celebrates the fusion of wine and travel. At the heart of this gathering is Robert Joseph, a distinguished member of the WTA jury, editorial consultant, and columnist for Meininger’s Wine Business International. His expertise and insights have been invaluable throughout this journey.
The spring edition of the RO-WINE festival, held from May 24-26, 2024, at Fratelli Studios, attracted thousands of wine lovers from across the country and abroad. The event offered a unique and memorable experience, featuring over 10,000 bottles of wine, more than 2,000 pizzas with carefully selected ingredients, and over 2,000 specialty coffees from Constantin Coffee.
For the third year running, the Wine Travel Awards Ceremony and Public Voting awards celebration took place alongside the renowned London Wine Fair, solidifying the enduring collaboration between Drinks+ Communication Media Group and this prestigious event.
As of May 1st, the main voting phase for the Wine Travel Award 2023–2024 has come to a close. We are excited to unveil the Award winners and offer our heartfelt congratulations to everyone involved! Moving forward, our journey continues with the WTA Ceremony in London. It will summarize the results of the 2023–2024 campaign, where the winners of both the public vote and the professional jury will be determined.
The event of the Wine Travel Awards Team as a part of ProWein 2024 in Düsseldorf Tasting Around the Sustainable World garnered a significant audience due to its intriguing theme of exploring. The event was graced by the presence of an esteemed speaker, Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Gergely Szolnoki from Geisenheim University, who also happens to be a member of the WTA jury. Mr Szolnoki shared his invaluable insights and practical recommendations based on a comprehensive study of over 1,500 wineries across 42 countries, making the event a truly exclusive experience.
France is breathing history and is a model of a high class of winemaking, being the birthplace of the finest and most expensive wines in the world. Yet, despite the weight of traditions and regulations, French winemakers successfully integrate modern technologies for viticulture and modern business approach for running their estates. Here‘s the review of the WTA nominees classifying for the Progressive Approach category.
This year, the Wine Travel Awards team’s dream came true, which we were afraid to think about when we started this project — all the leading wine museums have come together in the current release. At least the European ones. Each of them is a kind of Louvre, but, in my opinion, even better. After all, in addition to state-of-the-art expositions featuring art collections, wine museums naturally offer wine as well.
If you love good wine, cheerful people and new interesting places, you might add these festivals to your calendar. The nominees for the Wine Travel Awards for the season 2023-2024 were evens from Armenia, Italy, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal, France, Taiwan, Moldova, Great Britain and Spain.
Greece’s largest exhibition, Oenorama, celebrated its 30th anniversary by gathering the most distinctive wines of the bright terroirs of Hellas at the beginning of March 2024 at the “Zappeion Megaron” in the center of Athens.
