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A cellar full of winegrowers’ stories

A cellar full of winegrowers’ stories

With a unique combination of traditional and modern elements in an informative exhibition appealing to many senses, “Winzerkeller Ingelheim” near Mainz earned the prize for the Great Wine Capitals Best Of Wine Tourism Award 2023 in the category “Art and Culture”.

THE WOMEN OF MENDOZA STRENGTHEN ITS WINE INDUSTRY

THE WOMEN OF MENDOZA STRENGTHEN ITS WINE INDUSTRY

The World Economic Forum has been measuring the gender gap since 2006 through the Global Gender Gap Index. It benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). In 2022 this study included 146 countries. According to the results, there would still be some 132 years to close the gender gap worldwide at the current pace of implementation of measures and actions.

Beyond the Bottle: Training the Next Generation of Wine Professionals

Beyond the Bottle: Training the Next Generation of Wine Professionals

How can education prepare the next generation for the changing wine industry? Changins’ International Summer University takes students across leading European wine regions to explore how wine tourism, customer experience and new business models can create new opportunities for wineries and future wine professionals.

The Tanks Tom Built – Church Road Winery

The Tanks Tom Built – Church Road Winery

There is a set of concrete tanks under the ground at Church Road that no longer hold any wine. They were built to. For decades they did, and the man who filled them, Tom McDonald, is the reason most people who know anything about New Zealand wine know the name Hawke’s Bay at all. The tanks are still there. That, more than anything on the tasting list, is what makes this place worth the detour.

Pillars of Sustainability at Palacios Vinos de Finca, Nivarius and Proelio

Pillars of Sustainability at Palacios Vinos de Finca, Nivarius and Proelio

Winner of the 2026 Best Of Wine Tourism Award for Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices, Palacios Vinos de Finca places sustainability at the heart of its approach to wine and wine tourism in Rioja, with a commitment to the territory, biodiversity, environmental conservation and the preservation of its natural and cultural landscape.

The Blue Sheep in the Vineyard

The Blue Sheep in the Vineyard

The K.&K. Dautermann Winery is a typical family-run winery in Rheinhessen, producing excellent red wines in Ingelheim, the ‘red wine town’. Perhaps it isn’t quite so typical after all: their son, Klaus Dautermann, was born with Down’s syndrome – which is why the issue of inclusion plays such a significant role at the winery.

Building a Seamless Wine Tourism Journey in Hawke’s Bay

Building a Seamless Wine Tourism Journey in Hawke’s Bay

As a member of the Great Wine Capitals Global Network, Hawke’s Bay brings a genuinely different offering to the table: an intimate, walkable, and rideable wine region where the boundary between city sophistication and rural authenticity has all but disappeared.