Prowein is certainly one of the most important wine fairs in Europe, and spans over six huge halls at the Messe Düsseldorf. Indeed, owing to it’s sheer size and the layout of the different halls (something akin to Tetris) it’s very easy to lose your bearings, and is certainly not a fair to visit without a specific objective in mind. It would be pretty much impossible to see everything during the three days that the doors are open.

As with the majority of large wine fairs the world and his dog are all represented, and it’s possible to taste wine from every corner of the planet. All of the more obvious producing countries are there in force, but also there are many of the not so obvious too: India, Israel, Georgia, Croatia, Moldavia, Serbia and the Czech Republic to name just a few. Whilst our main reason for being there was to sell our albariño, we did also seize the opportunity to taste a couple of interesting things from outside Spain, including a fascinating tasting of sweet German rieslings from as far back as 1976….. it’s always important for us to stay in touch, and to see what the rest of the world is doing.

The one thing that Prowein has in common with every other wine fair is that it’s completely exhausting, and that’s without including the marathon journey to get to Germany and back. Getting up at 7.30am on a Sunday morning to go out and sell wine comes as a shock to the system at my age (or any age for that matter). It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it – just as well that we love our Bodega!

Prowein is certainly one of the most important wine fairs in Europe, and spans over six huge halls at the Messe Düsseldorf. Indeed, owing to it’s sheer size and the layout of the different halls (something akin to Tetris) it’s very easy to lose your bearings, and is certainly not a fair to visit without a specific objective in mind. It would be pretty much impossible to see everything during the three days that the doors are open.

As with the majority of large wine fairs the world and his dog are all represented, and it’s possible to taste wine from every corner of the planet. All of the more obvious producing countries are there in force, but also there are many of the not so obvious too: India, Israel, Georgia, Croatia, Moldavia, Serbia and the Czech Republic to name just a few. Whilst our main reason for being there was to sell our albariño, we did also seize the opportunity to taste a couple of interesting things from outside Spain, including a fascinating tasting of sweet German rieslings from as far back as 1976….. it’s always important for us to stay in touch, and to see what the rest of the world is doing.

The one thing that Prowein has in common with every other wine fair is that it’s completely exhausting, and that’s without including the marathon journey to get to Germany and back. Getting up at 7.30am on a Sunday morning to go out and sell wine comes as a shock to the system at my age (or any age for that matter). It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it – just as well that we love our Bodega!