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36. Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish Food, Wine, Culture and Travel gerrydawesspain.com

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8/01/2006

Encuentro Verema: Valencia's Winter Wine Conference, January 26 & 27, 2007

Valencia's El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía — Opera house and performing arts centre

The Sixth Edition of Encuentro Verema, Spain's most prestigious wine conference, took place in Valencia January 26 & 27, 2007 at the five-star Meliá Valencia Palace Hotel.

The conference, organized by Valencia-based Verema.com, one of the world's most visited wine websites, featured two days of high level seminars and tastings.

On January 26, in the evening Bodegas Herederos de Marqués de Riscal, presented "The Evolution of Rioja Wines in the past century," following by a tasting of historic vintages of Marqués de Riscal Reserva wines back to the stellar, legendary 1945, as well as their latest Barón de Chirel, the 2001, perhaps the greatest wine in Barón de Chirel's history.

Seminar on White Wines at Encuentro Verema

After Marqués de Riscal's evening seminar, there will be a walk-around, meet-the-winemaker's tasting of wines from some of the bodegas participating in the 2007 event, including Alión (D.O. Ribera del Duero), Alvaro Palacios (D.O.C. Priorat), Celler del Roure (D.O. Valencia), Cims de Porrera (D.O.Q. Priorat, Clos Martinet (D.O.Q. Priorat), Clos Mogador (D.O.Q. Priorat), Contino (D.O.Ca. Rioja), Dominio de Atauta (D.O. Ribera del Duero), Dominio de Tares (D.O. Bierzo), Enrique Mendoza (D.O. Alicante), López de Heredia (D.O.Ca. Rioja), Marqués de Griñón (D.O. Dominio de Valdepusa), Mauro (V.T. Castilla y León), Maurodos (V.T. Castilla y León), Muga (D.O.Ca. Rioja), Mustiguillo (D.O. Utiel-Requena), Remirez de Ganuza (D.O.Ca. Rioja), Telmo Rodríguez (Various D.O.s), Bodegas Miguel Torres (Various D.O.s) and Vega Sicilia (D.O. Ribera del Duero).

The Events

Saturday, January 27

10:30 - 11:45. Managing Director-Winemaking Team Leader Agustín Santolaya of Bodegas Roda presented a tasting of representative vintages from the winery since its creation.

12:00 - 13:30. Round table on the wines of Barolo (Piedmont)with winemakers from the region.


Seminar with Ricardo Pérez, Desciendentes de J. Palacios (Bierzo) & Juan Such, one of the Directors of Verema.com

13:30 - 14:00. Presentation of the Verema Awards for 2006 to:

- Best Bodega 2006: Bodegas Roda.

- Rising Star Bodega: Viñas del Vero.

- Best Wine Award 2006: Vega Sicilia Único 1994.

- Wine Personality of the Year 2006 Award: Mariano García, Bodegas Mauro, Maurodos
and others.

- Award for Best Restaurant Wine Service: Restaurante Atrio (Cáceres).

Verema.com Awards 2005

Presentation of Verema.com's 2006 National Wine Photography Award

14:00 - 17:30. Wine from participating bodegas and tapas lunch.

19:30 - 21:30. Round Table "Culture and Wine" with various personalities from the fields of theatre, fashion, literature, architecture, humor and sports.


Board of Directors, Verema.com

21:30 – 00:00. Dinner.

Pablo Calatayud, Cellar del Roure (Valencia), explains the finer points of making wine to Jesús Madrazo, winemaker at Contino (La Rioja)

Tres amigos at the Verema.com after-party at Malquerida Restaurante, Valencia


Participating Bodegas Encuentro Verema 2007

- Abadía Retuerta (V.T. Castilla y León)
- Alión (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Alvaro Palacios (D.O.C. Priorat)
- Alvear (D.O. Montilla Moriles)
- Anima Negra (Baleares)
- Artadi (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Arzuaga (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Barbadillo (D.O. Jerez y Manzanilla-San Lúcar de Barrameda)
- Beaucastel (Valle del Ródano)
- Bernabé Navarro (D.O. Alicante)
- Blecua (Somontano)
- Bodegas Aalto (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Bodegas Almanseñas (D.O. Almansa)
- Bodegas Bilbaínas (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Bodegas de la Marquesa (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Bodegas Osborne (Varias D.O.)
- Bodegas y Viñedos Illana (D.O. Ribera del Júcar)
- Bodegas y Viñedos Pintia (D.O. Toro)
- Bruno Clair (Borgoña)
- Can Rafols del Caus (D.O. Penedés)
- Casa de la Ermita (D.O. Jumilla)
- Celler del Roure (D.O. Valencia)
- Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme (Haut Medoc)
- Cillar de Silos (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Cims de Porrera (D.O.Q. Priorat)
- Clos Martinet (D.O.Q. Priorat)
- Clos Mogador (D.O.Q. Priorat)
- Contino (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Dominio de Atauta (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Dominio de Tares (D.O. Bierzo)
- Emilio Moro (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Enrique Mendoza (D.O. Alicante)
- Eric Bordelet (Sidra)
- Estancia Piedra (D.O. Toro)
- F. Schatz (D.O. Málaga y Sierras de Málga)
- Gonzalez Byass (D.O. Jerez y Manzanilla-San Lúcar de Barrameda)
- Gramona (Varias D.O.)
- Gutierrez de la Vega (D.O. Valencia)
- Henri Giraud (A.O.C. Champagne)
- Heretat de Cesilia (Sin D.O. - Zona de Alicante)
- Joan Sardá (Varias D.O.)
- López de Heredia (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Luis Cañas (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Marqués de Griñón (D.O. Dominio de Valdepusa)
- Marques de Riscal (Varias D.O.)
- Marqués de Velilla (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Mauro (V.T. Castilla y León)
- Maurodos (V.T. Castilla y León)
- Muga (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Mustiguillo (D.O. Utiel-Requena)
- Pago del Vicario (V.T. Castilla La Mancha)
- Pierre Gimonnet & Fils (A.O.C. Champagne)
- Pirineos (D.O. Somontano)
- Remirez de Ganuza (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Santiago Ijalba (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Sierra Cantabria (D.O.Ca. Rioja)
- Telmo Rodríguez (Varias D.O.)

- Toques et Clochers (Limoux)
- Torres (Varias D.O.)
- Valtravieso (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Vega Sicilia (D.O. Ribera del Duero)
- Vegalfaro (D.O. Utiel-Requena)
- Vera de Estenas (D.O. Utiel-Requena)
- Viñas del Vero (D.O. Somontano)
- Yllera (Varias D.O.)

Hotel Accommodations

Hotel Meliá Valencia Palace***** has special rates (112 Euros plus 7% IVA; good only for the nights of the conference) for doubles (or singles) with breakfast included for Encuentro Verema attendees. Those wishing to reserve hotel rooms should communicate directly with the hotel and mention "Encuentro Verema".

HOTEL MELIA VALENCIA PALACE*****

Paseo de la Alameda, 32// 46023 Valencia

Tel:96 337 50 37 Fax:96 337 55 32

web : www.sh-hoteles.com

Persona de contacto: Rosa García Vivó

E MAIL: rosa.garciavivo@sh-hoteles.com

Admission fees to Encuentro Verema are 165 € por persona (IVA included) for members of Club Verema (375 Euros for two). Non-member price is 235 € per person (IVA included)

To register for future Encuentro Verema conferences, e-mail Directors Encuentro Verema at verema@verema.com with the name or names of the person or personas wishing to attend, their mailing address and a contact phone number and e-mail address. Available places are very limited; payment can be done by bank transfer. Contact Verema.com for more information. All conferences are conducted in Spanish. There are no English translatons provided.

El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe — Science museum

Copa Jerez Sherry & Food Matching Competition

The International COPA JEREZ is a competition featuring chefs and sommeliers who have won preliminary competitions in their home countries by matching creative dishes to specific Sherrries. The finals in Jerez de la Frontera, capital of the Sherry district, will showcase winning chef and sommelier teams representing Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, USA, The Netherlands, Japan and United Kingdom. During the finals--to be held in Jerez on January 11, 2007--each team will defend and justify their maridaje, or Sherry-and-creative dish marriages, in front of a panel of judges anchored by Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck, and including Juli Soler of El Bulli, and Doug Frost, MS, MW.
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