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Side. Valdepeñas celebrates the Wine Movement Day D.O.
The Movement Day D.O. it is celebrated for the second consecutive year on Saturday, May 12. On this occasion, 26 Designations of Origin have been joined to recognize the importance of differentiated quality wine, DO wine, as a differentiating and prestigious product from many countries of our country, and wine with designation of origin to the public in In general, young people in particular, transferring values linked to it: authenticity, importance and care of origin, food security, cultural roots, diversity, protection of the environment and healthy lifestyle.
OIVE advocates in Congress to educate in the responsible consumption of wine before a future regulation on minors and alcohol
The Interprofessional Organization of Wine of Spain (OIVE) has defended before the Joint Congress-Senate Commission for the Study of the problem of Drugs, that the future regulation on minors and alcohol contemplates as pillars prevention and education, implying in the same whole society. In the course of her appearance before the Commission, which develops a paper on Alcohol and Minors in order to lay the foundations for a possible regulation of "non-alcoholic minors", its director Susana García, has exposed the intention of the wine sector to contribute to offer solutions to this problem. In that sense, she has announced the intention of the OIVE to elaborate a Code of Commercial Communication of the wine that protects the minors.
The Spanish MEPs denounce the defamatory campaign of French winegrowers against Spain
Spanish socialists in the European Parliament have urged urgent measures to be taken to defend Spanish wine in order to counteract the effects of an advertising campaign launched by French farmers with a clearly defamatory aim and which, in its view, "represents a infringement of the single market and of the EU's competition rules".
The salons of wine, oil and fruits and vegetables start with good forecasts
The exhibiting firms present at the international wine, oil and fruit and vegetable lounges (ENOMAQ, TECNOVID, OLEOMAQ, OLEOTEC and FRUYVER), which are held at the Zaragoza fairgrounds, concur that the sector shows signs of recovery. Visitors from all over the world have found, at Feria de Zaragoza, the biggest technological offer in the wine, olive and horticultural industry, consolidating itself as the most innovative edition of these events.
Pro Event Calendar
Masters of Wine World Symposium, Logroño
Logroño will host the 9th International Symposium of the Institute of Masters of Wine from June 14th to 17th, 2018, to be held in Spain for the first time thanks to the candidacy presented by the main sponsor of the event, La Fundación para la cultura del Vino, a private organization with more than 18 years of history dedicated to extending the wine culture and whose patronage is integrated by five of the most prestigious Spanish wineries -Muga, La Rioja Alta, Marques de Riscal, Terras Gauda and Vega Sicilia- , As well as the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA).