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Largest World Bulk Wine Exhibition attracts nearly 6,000 visitors to Amsterdam

Published:  28 November, 2013

The largest World Bulk Wine Exhibition held to date took place this week in Amsterdam with up to 176 wineries taking part from 16 different countries.

World Bulk Wine Exhibition

World Bulk Wine Exhibition

The largest World Bulk Wine Exhibition held to date took place this week in Amsterdam with up to 176 wineries taking part from 16 different countries.

The event, which has been running for five years, attracted 5,800 visitors, from 62 countires, with an uplift of 40% of buyers compared to last year.

France and Spain were most heavily represented with 43 wineries from each country, followed by Italy with 22 exhibitors. For the first time, producers from Moldova, Bulgaria, Canada and the UK were in attendance.

Besides having the ability to taste wines from all the producers, several conferences were held that focused on topics including consumer preferences, consumption trends in the UK and trends in the global bulk wine market. There was also a cooking show room area with Galician chef Francisco Piñeiro creating dishes paired with specific wines.

Carlos Torres, of Chilean producer ViñedosPuertas, said of the event: ""We are a producer with more than 7 million litres of capacity per year and came here the first time to test the market. We are happy with very promising new contacts with buyers from Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Poland, Slovenia, France, Spain, Japan and China. We will surely be back in 2014."

Anneli Karsten, from Lutzville Cape Diamond Wines in South Africa, added: "We were here for the third time and the exhibition is getting better every year. Most buyers came from countries like Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Russia, Scandinavia and France - but we even had people from Algeria, Japan and Bulgaria at the booth."

The WBWE took place in Amsterdam between November 25-26.

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