For the first time in the history of EWBC, Serbia has joined the list of 40 countries which participate in the most important conference of wine bloggers, wine writers, social media managers in the domain of wine industry, wine critics and connoisseurs.
The European Wine Bloggers Conference was held for the first time in 2008, in La Rioja (Spain) with a goal to establish global wine communication and spread wine culture, contribute to improved wine industry standards and enable efficient exchange of ideas. Ever since then, this conference has been held every year in another country (More info about the conferenceHttp://Ewbc.Vrazon.Com/ )Serbia hasn’t participated so far, and concerning countries of the region, Croatia and Hungary took part twice, whilst Austrians participated three times in EWBC conferences.
This year, Serbia was represented by Tomislav Ivanović, author of web-portal vinopedia and Dušan Jelić, manager of social media (Facebook, Twitter) Wines of Balkans.
From 2008 until present day, this conference has grown into a must-see event for all those from the domain of wine journalism, wine critics, bloggers. And 300 participants in this year’s conference have come from all corners of the globe – from China and South Africa to USA and Argentina.
As a host, Turkey invested a lot of efforts to present itself as a wine country and to get all conference participants acquainted with its wines and numerous autochthonous grape varieties. And certainly, Turkey can be proud of its vine-growing history and grape varieties. It is interesting to mention that Turkey is ranked 6th in the world according to the grape production of more than 4 million tons, but only 2% of this quantity is used for making wine. Annual consumption per inhabitant amounts to 1 liter.
http://www.vinopedia.rs/en/post/direktno-sa-ewbc-izmir-turska-09-11-2012