Actually, the Great Wine Capitals Global Network is an organization gathering cities, major business centers their country, and that are also in the middle or closely linked to internationnally renowned vineyards. The member cities thus share a common cultural and economic asset: the wines. This allows the members to share experience, to learn from each other, to develop their notoriety in terms of tourism, their business, their image on the international scale. Bilbao and Rioja have a lot in common in terms of wine business, like Porto being the shipping port for the Douro wines... And I'm sure you could not argue that Cape Town or Mendoza really are the wine capitals of their country... Catherine Leparmentier, Permanent Sercretary, Great Wine Capitals Global Network
Great Wine Capitals
Oct 18, 2009
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As was said previously, this is fairly meaningless especially in the US where wine centers are now scattered over the country. What cultural heritage do St. Helena CA share with Bilbao Spain?
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Probably, however, nobody in St Helena really drinks much anymore but the Spanish are legendary!
You must go to different restaurants in St. Helena than I do.
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OK, what would be THE wine capital of Germany? Trier? Würzburg? Rüdesheim? Or in France: Bordeaux? Beaune? Reims?
The notion is a bit silly, I think...
Anders
Definitely Bordeaux, that is where they make Mouton Cadet.
In Germany, not sure, where do they make Blue Nun?
Pardon my ignorance, but istn't the factory in St-Laurent-Médoc?
M.
Yes, but the closest city...
Oh, I see ...
M.
That's casual consumption of wine with meals not the kind of drinking I was refering to. The winemakers themselves don't drink like they used to.
I believe Mainz, you've cracked the code!
The Wein in Mainz stays mainzly in the Rhein.
Ah, that is true but many of them I know were alcoholics and should not have been drinking much at all.
My point exactly.
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