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2009 Wine Expo

The largest trade and consumer wine event in the country took place this past weekend at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston and [again] it was truly overwhelming. With over 450 wineries from around the globe pouring 1,800+ wines for you to sample, you have to really focus in order to enjoy the event and take something away from it. We spent the majority of our time sampling wines from Spain, France and Italy. New this year was a self-service booth entitled the Navarra Wine Tunnel where you could discover the wines of The Kingdom of Navarra, Spain. I really enjoyed this departure from the traditional pourings done by winery or distributor representatives because it allowed to take at your own pace based on a pretty good written description. We also had the chance to speak to an Italy tourism representative about our 2010 trip we are planning, which was helpful. The only real disappointment was the lack of Long Island wineries since we are planning a long summer weekend on the north fork. Overall, though, it was a great day and hope we can attend again next year.

Labels: Wine

posted by TheWino @ 12:07 PM