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Winelovers Wine Awards is not only an international wine competition, but a complex platform with several side events, one of them is Winelovers X, a trade tasting on 9 June. The venue is the hotel of the wine competition, Ensana Thermal Hotel in the charming Margaret Island. Are you a wine professional? This tasting is worth an escape in the green heart of Budapest! Entrance is free of charge for the members of the wine trade.  The first 15 exhibitors are revealed.
 

5 Swiss buyers participate in WWA 
 
This year five wine Swiss importers / buyers will arrive in Budapest and will participate in our Meet the Buyer programme on 9 June morning. They will also taste the wines of the exhibitors at Winelovers X on 9 June afternoon. What's the point in this Swiss focus? Well, we have good reasons: in this gloomy era of decrease in wine consumption, the sales of Hungarian wines to Switzerland have increased – among others due to these people.
 

Following the success of last year, the Wine Store of the Year*, Auchan Hungary teams up with Winelovers Wine Awards again, to create real market opportunities for award winner wines of the contest. 
What is more, this year the Hungarian Sommelier Club also agreed on a partnership with Winelovers Wine Awards, and hold the 3rd Open Hungarian Sommelier Championship as part Winelovers Wine Awards, at the same time, at the same place. As a result, top international and Hungarian sommeliers will judge the entered wines and will meet the exhibitors at Winelovers X.
 

We asked wineries that had entered Winelovers Wine Awards for the first or second time and whose wines had performed well. We were curious to find out how they felt, six months on, about whether it had been worth entering the competition. Let us share some thoughts from Agancsos Winery (Villány), Attila Cellar (Eger) and Lenkey Winery (Tokaj).

Do you hope to become head sommelier of a top restaurant? Are you dreaming of participating in a sommelier championship? Piotr Pietras Master Sommelier, Best Sommelier of Poland (2015 and 2016) and ASI’s 2nd Best Sommelier of Europe (2017) will conduct an essential masterclass for professional sommeliers on 29 June in Budapest.
 

Interview with Richárd Labancz of Pannon Borbolt
 
There is only one company in Hungary, which imports, distributes and sell wines from several countries of the Balkan – with great success. Pannon Borbolt is one of the exhibitors of Winelovers X, the trade wine exhibition organised along Winelovers Wine Awards international wine contest. As Richárd Labancz sommelier, winemaker and expert of the company commented, Pannon Borbolt will present about 13-15 wines, from the great value ones to the top ones.

Essi Avellan MW's special session in Budapest
 
The 3rd edition of Winelovers Wine Award will feature several novelties, one of them is the renowned Finnish sparkling expert, Essi Avellan MW evaluating and counselling on sparkling wines. Only 3 more places are available at this unique professional session! If you produce sparkling wines and you are curious about the opinion of the judge at CSWWC – the "Oscar of sparkling wines" –, show your bubblies to her on 28 June in Budapest, eye to eye, privately. The top expert will dedicate around 20 minutes to each producer, therefore a maximum of 6 wineries can apply for the opportunity, and 3 places are already taken. Don't miss a "speed date" with the co-author of the sparkling encyclopaedia!
 

"Interested in Central European wines? Looking to branch into more countries, but are not sure how to start? Well the Winelovers Wine Awards could have the answer. It has started a new Wine Buyers Program that is designed to bring buyers directly in contact with producers and wineries across Central Europe." – this is how the recently published interview with István Tábor begins.
 

Spice up your portfolio with Central Eastern European wines!