Vintage Destinations - International Wine Events in 2004

International Wine Events in 2004
ExpoVinis 2004
www.expovinis.exponor.pt
(July 1-3, 2004)

The ExpoVinis, International Wine Salon is a specialized event that assemble the main companies, presenting the great quality of Portuguese wines from all over the mainland and the islands. This event is open only for trade visitors, and will be held at EXPONOR - Porto International Fair, Portugal.

Fly Air Canada (via Frankfurt) or Air Transat (direct) to ExpoVinis 2004 departing Saturday, June 26th and returning on July 4th or 5th. Visit www.aircanada.ca or www.airtransat.com for more information.

VinExpo Americas 2004
www.vinexpo.com
(June 20-22, 2004)

The second Vinexpo Americas, which is reserved exclusively for wine and spirits professionals and persons engaged in related activities (hospitality, cruises, etc.) as well as for journalists, will be held in McCormick Place (Lakeside Center), Chicago from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm daily. This event will feature 400 exhibitors from all over the world, and will include host a program of seminars, conferences and tastings organized for visitors by exhibitors, various official and professional organizations and Vinexpo Americas.

Fly Air Canada to VinExpo Americas 2004. Visit www.aircanada.ca for more information.

Vie Vinum 2004
www.vievinum.at
(June 5-7, 2004)

The Vie Vinum 2004 will be held at the Congress Center Yard Castle in Wein, Austria, between 11:00 am and 7:00 pm daily (local time). This event will feature 500 exhibitors.

Fly Austrian Airlines to Vie Vinum 2004. Visit www.austrianair.com for more information.

Vinoble 2004
www.vinoble.com
Fourth International Exhibiton of Noble Wines
(May 26-29, 2004)

The International Noble Wines Exhibition is the only wine show dedicated exclusively to fortified, dessert, and natural sweet wines. It is held every two years in Jerez de la Frontera, the Andalusian town that shares its name (sherry in English) with one of the most famous wines produced in Spain.

The best labels from all producing areas of fortified and sweet wines gather at Vinoble:

From Argentina, late harvests, natural sweet wines, muscatels, botrytis and so forth.
From Austria, fine rot sweet wines from Kremstal, Neusiedlersee and Neusiedlersee-Hügelland.
From Canada, icewines from the Ontario vineyards.
From Chile, muscatels and late vintage semillon-sauvignon and riesling-gewürztraminer.
From France, wines originating in Sauternes, Barsac, Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Mombazillac, Pacherenc, Gaillac, Jurançon, Sainte Croix du Mont, Loupiac and Bergerac.
From Germany, late vintage sweet wines, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswine, from vineyards growing along the banks of the Rhine and its tributaries.
From Greece, wines from Samos, Santorini, Patras, Macedonia and Crete.
From Hungary, the legendary wines produced in the volcanic hills of Tokaj.
From Italy, holy wine, passito and moscato.
From Japan, noble rot, sweet and fortified wines.
From New Zealand, late harvests Riesling and Gewürztraminer.
From Portugal, vintage ports, muscatels from Setúbal and sweet wines from Madeira.
From Slovenia, sweet wines made from Riesling, Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Moscato.
From Spain, an extensive variety of sweet and fortified wines. Sherry with its finos, manzanillas, olorosos amontillados, creams, pedro ximénez, pale creams, and muscatels; the finos, amontillados, olorosos and Pedro Ximénez from Montilla-Moriles (Cordoba); sweet wines from Catalonia; fortified wines from the County of Huelva; muscatels from Valencia, Malaga and Navarra; fondillones from Alicante; malmsey from the Canaries; sweet wines from Yecla and Jumilla; late vintages from Rueda and Rias Baixas....
From South Africa, botrytis, muscatels and late vintages.
From Switzerland, late harvest from Valais.
From United States, muscatels and dessert wines from California.
From Uruguay, late vintage Riesling and Gewürztraminer.

Fly Air Canada to Vinoble 2004. Visit www.aircanada.ca for more information.

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