PROGRAM

World Wine Symposium 5th edition

At Villa d’Este (Como Lake, Italy) in november, from thursday 7th to sunday 10th

Main topics of the 5th edition

• The specifics of vineyard and winery
• acquisition
• development
• hand-over
• The need for legislation harmonisation inside the EU

Seminars

• Tomorrow’s world by Olivier Duha
• Round table conference on the harmonisation of legislation about the specifics of vineyard and winery over Europe (5 speakers)
• A wine area to rediscover: Tokaj by Istvàn Szpesy
• Optimizing the approach of the emerging markets
• The future of the european grape varieties by José Vouillamoz
• Verallia’s challenges to come (Michel Toussaint)
• New devices for wine tracking

Prestige tastings

• Verticale of Cheval-Blanc (Pierre Lur ton) (€ 700)
• Verticale of Weingut Egon Müller (Egon Müller) (€ 800)
• Comparative verticale of Echézeaux and Romanée-St-Vivant (Domaine de la Romanée Conti) 2005 – 1999 – 1985 – 1979 (€ 900)

Musical intermezze

• With our partner PianoFor te Fazioli
• Maurizio Baglini (Piano)
• Silvia Chiesa (Violoncello)
• Nicolas Dautricour t (Violon)

Opening dinner

• Thursday november 7th
• Participants who are willing to may bring in and share with the other guests a bottle of their favorite wines

China at Villa d’Este

• Dinner, Friday november 8th
• Chinese dinner elaborated by Chefs from China.
• Will european Grands Vins be up to the challenge ?

Gala Dinner

• Dinner, saturday november 9th
• Italian cuisine by Villa d’Este Chef Michele Zambanini

Lalique-Villa d’Este Award

• Award ceremony on saturday 9th
• Helmut Dönnhoff rewarded at the 2012 edition

Partners of the 2013 edition

• Villa d’Este
• Banque Lombard-Odier
• Fazioli
• Fondazione Bertarelli
• Maserati
• Moreschi
• Verallia

Sponsors of the 2013 edition

• Aqua Sparea
• Ercole Brovelli
• Lavazza
• Oenolite
• « Exper t » glasses
• Vino & Finanza
• KPMG (Italy)

Registration

• 1 people (single room) : € 2850
• 2 people (double room): € 3850
• Three nights, all-included package (see registration form for details)
• for extra night(s), see registration form