Great Wine Capitals award for sustainability goes to estate in Bingen

In the "Best of Wine Tourism Award" competition, the international network of Great Wine Capitals has awarded a prize in the category "Sustainable wine tourism" to the Hemmes estate in Bingen in Germany.

The estate was successful in a category including entrants from Mendoza, the Napa Valley and Tuscany, with its concept of a wine school housed in a national heritage building whose heating requirements are supplied by a geothermal unit.
The award was presented at this year's annual general meeting held at Château Giscours (Bordeaux).

The Network of Great Wine Capitals consists of eight separate units in which major cities and important wine-producing regions located close by together provide a culture of wine. The idea is to encourage travel, economic contacts and oenological exchanges between the member cities: Bordeaux, Cape Town, Florence, Mainz, Mendoza, Porto, Bilbao-Rioja and San Francisco-Napa Valley.