A new ProWine report by Professor Simone Loose of Geisenheim University has found that exporters see Japan as a key market, thanks to its appreciation for quality and readiness to pay premium prices.
The first ProWine Tokyo took place with nearly 200 exhibitors from 20 regions. Germany's leading wine competition MUNDUS VINI, organised by Meininger Verlag, took some of its winning wines to Japan.
The leading international trade fair ProWein wants to reinvent itself. In order to maintain its lead over the growing competition from Wine Paris and Vinitaly, it is striving to spread optimism in the industry - among other things with its new slogan "Discover The Taste of Tomorrow", as Messe Düsseldorf reports.
The Meininger Awards took place in Düsseldorf, on the eve of ProWein. Now in their 18th year, the awards honour the most significant people in the German and international wine industry. Here are the six winners.
The 30th edition of ProWein was less of a celebration than the organisers might have wished, thanks to difficulties created by German airline and railway workers.
Robert Joseph often likes to defend (or at least, explain) the apparently indefensible. Here, as thousands of professionals consider the high cost of attending ProWein, he offers a reasonable explanation for those high hotel prices.
It’s got a wine-growing history that dates back to the Roman world. It’s got more than 220 authorised grape varieties over 55,000 hectares of vineyards, and it’s one of the most exciting wine-growing countries in Europe.
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