BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) — The third version of Barcelona Wine Week (BWW) kicked off on Tuesday, with a document variety of 828 exhibiting wineries, 27 % greater than in 2022.
The Spanish wine sector’s most important annual occasion is being held within the metropolis’s Montjuic congress venue, and runs till Friday. Over 8,000 enterprise conferences are scheduled right here between exhibitors, consumers, distributors, importers, and retailers.
This 12 months, the honest has invited 1,800 consumers of Spanish wine, from Spain and main export markets such because the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, China, Japan and Brazil.
Visitors can participate in one of many 50 tasting periods, and attend talks with wine specialists and producers.
A wine bar referred to as “Wine Tasting Journey – Soils of Spain,” in collaboration with the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and meals, gives guided tasting excursions of 58 wines.
“What we have to continue doing is improving the representativeness of the fair, bringing in more wineries and buyers, and above all to continue growing in quality,” Javier Pages, president of Barcelona Wine Week, informed Xinhua.
Sustainability and innovation are main themes of the honest this 12 months, with displays on topics corresponding to winery soil administration amid local weather change, the advantages of eco-design, the reuse of bottles, and methods for shielding previous vineyards.
“Spanish wine is going through an essential moment,” Maria Naranjo, director of Food, Wine and Gastronomy on the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), informed Xinhua, including that the Spanish wine was beginning to be acknowledged of its traits.
According to ICEX, Spain ranks third among the many world’s wine producers, with 40.5 million hectoliters produced in 2022. It is the primary exporter when it comes to quantity, and the third when it comes to worth, exporting 2.9 billion euros (3.1 billion U.S. {dollars}) in 2021. (1 euro = 1.07 U.S. dollar)