Vinitaly & Enolitech (Trade) @ Verona, Italy
VINITALY 2006 closed with over 144,000 visitors. International buyers were up by 10%.
VINITALY is the landmark event for the Italian and international wine world. The largest wine show in the world has progressively and increasingly become a mainstay even on an international scale by welcoming innovations and appealing to operators not only as a trade exhibition but also and especially as a full-scale reference "event".
ENOLITECH is an international promotional tool devoted to the wine and oil sectors. It is a cannot-be-missed meeting point for marketing and opportunities for all companies in the sector looking to offer the best of their production. This is the most important date for operators who want to meet to get information in order to buy new applications and new technologies, talk and draw comparisons.
This "event" has been developed over forty years of activity by accompanying the development of a sector that in turn has become the best ambassador of "Made in Italy" worldwide as the flagship of excellence in the quality agro-foods system.
Vinitaly this year will welcome 4,200 exhibitors over a net area of almost 80 thousand square metres - further confirmation of its role as an exhibition at the service of companies. And today as never before - since it is the only show focusing on all the needs of all operators in the field: producers, importers, distributors, caterers, technicians, journalists and opinion leaders.
Vinitaly will embrace traditional appointments alongside several innovative events designed to involve operators from all over the world. The impressive line-up includes: Tasting Ex...Press - international wines presented by leading wine-sector magazines; Taste & Dream - great historical Italian wines; Trendy Today, Big Tomorrow - selected companies investing in the future; Food & Wine Pairing - highlighting young European chefs combining continental traditions in cuisine and superb Italian wines; Gulliver's Travels - discovering quality niche wines from European countries; The "young lions" - the top 10 European producers for the next four decades of world oenology; Designer Restaurants - outstanding performances by the best Italian chefs; Citadel of Gastronomy - interpreting the best regional Italian cuisine.
This detailed and specific programme will even be extended outside the Exhibition Centre itself: Palazzo della Gran Guardia (Piazza Bra, close to Town Verona Hall) is home to Vinitaly for You, the evening "wine store" with food and live music for enthusiasts of fine wines.