Mainz: The Mainz Wine Exchange was a great success in its anniversary year. About 3200 professionals from trade and gastronomy used the key fair for Riesling to orientate themselves on the market of German top wines. From abroad, there were particularly strong trade visitors from Scandinavia and Benelux, but also quite a few traders, sommeliers and press representatives came from the USA.
The experts agreed that also at the 40th Mainz Wine Exchange, the incomparable greatness of the VDP wines, whether Riesling, Silvaner or Burgundy varieties, was presented. About 1500 wines from 175 wineries were tasted and judged, among them white wines dominated with more than 1100 bottles. It is not only the German citizens who increasingly prefer dry wines at the moment, but also the foreign countries are increasingly ordering this taste. At the Mainz Wine Exchange, dry wines accounted for 67% of the total, while semi-dry/fine-bodied wines accounted for 16%.
The 2012 vintage of VDP wines is characterised by an exceptional quality of grapes with fine and ripe acidity.
The VDP took positive stock of the introduction of the new VDP.KLASSIFIKATION. "In the first conversion year of the new classification, one can positively highlight the achievements and efforts of the wineries. Already 80% of the wines in the exchange catalogue can be sorted within the new pyramid," explained VDP President Steffen Christmann.
During the 40th Wine Exchange, several seminars were held daily in both German and English to bring the new VDP classification closer to the trade audience. The acceptance has been great since the 2012 vintage at the VDP wineries. Now, it is important to make the public aware of the high quality standard and the wine culture characterized by origin, which is determined by the new classification.
At the opening event of the 40th wine exchange, Dr. Daniel Deckers, author of a reference book, gave an entertaining lecture about four decades of Mainz wine exchange. Names like Peter von Weymarn, under whose VDP presidency the Mainzer Weinbörse was founded, and Peter Anheuser, the longtime managing director of the Mainzer Weinbörse association, which was integrated into the VDP in 1999, are closely connected to this success. Peter von Weymarn congratulated the VDP by means of a greeting on the festive date and thanked all those from the VDP ranks who have tirelessly advanced its version of an international wine market.
On the occasion of the opening of the wine exchange, Hilke Nagel was officially bid farewell as managing director and head of press and public relations of the VDP and awarded with the golden honorary pin of the association. Hilke Nagel's work in the VDP's office is inseparably linked to the success of the Prädikat Wine Estates over the past 20 years.
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