Great Wine Capitals Webinar, April 2021

How Wineries are safely re-opening to welcome back guests?

The management of in-person visitation in the world of Covid19.

The session, moderated by Tom Perry, Inside Rioja, gave the floor to the following speakers:

• George Blanckensee , Estate Director, Chateau Montelena, Napa Valley
• María Lorena Cepparo, Hospitality Manager, Chandon Winery, Mendoza
• Elmarie Rabe, General Director, Stellenbosch Wine Route
• Marina Grijalba, General Manager, Riojatrek, Rioja

Watch the first Great Wine Capitals Webinar’s replay here

Great Wine Capitals

The Great Wine Capitals is a network of major global cities in both the northern and southern hemispheres, which share a key economic and cultural asset: their internationally renowned wine regions.

It is the only such Network to encompass the so-called ‘Old’ and ‘New’ worlds of wine, and it aims to encourage travel, education and business exchanges between the prestigious wine regions of Adelaide | South Australia, Bilbao | Rioja (Spain), Bordeaux (France), Cape Town | Cape Winelands (South Africa), Lausanne (Switzerland), Mainz | Rheinhessen (Germany), Mendoza (Argentina), Porto (Portugal), San Francisco | Napa Valley (USA), Valparaìso | Casablanca Valley (Chile) and Verona (Italy).

Being founded in 1999, the Network has developed and introduced several projects, initiatives and programs with the objective of achieving excellence in tourism, business services and education within the global alliance of its renowned wine regions.