Spain’s Food & Wine Fairs: A Perpetual Feast

Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Scene of Vino Elite


Tetsuya Wakuda at Madrid Fusión


Ferran Ádria at Alimentaria's BCN Vanguardia

Spain’s Food & Wine Fairs: A Perpetual Feast

by Gerry Dawes
All photographs copyright 2008 by Gerry Dawes (Not to be used without permission gerrydawes@aol.com)

Spanish food and wine fairs, wine trade fairs, promotional events and gastronomic conferences can keep dedicated Spanish wine professionals, foodies and aficionados alike busy all year round, as I found out over the course of 2007, when I made a half dozen ten trips to Spain, many of them connected two and three deep to Spanish wine events. Spain now has thousands of wineries and it takes a lot of tastings to bring all that wine to the attention of the press, importers and consumers.

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Three-star Michelin Chefs Santi Santamaria, Ferran Ádria, Paul Bocuse and Juan Mari Arzak

at the Salón Internacional de Gourmets in Madrid

Vinoble: Tasting in the former Mezquita of the Alcazar in Jerez de la Frontera