WineFuture Hong Kong 2011

Wine celebrities, experts, connoisseurs and media personalities will congregate at the AsiaWorld Expo in Hong Kong to attend a 3-day global conference to discuss and assess the issues and challenges faced by the wine industry with the famous film Director and winemaker Francis Coppola as the Guest of Honour at the WineFuture Hong Kong 2011, to be held on November 6-8, offering a great opportunity to Indian aficionados also to rub shoulders with the international wine celebrities.
 
There will perhaps be more Masters of Wine than any other single event except the programmes of the Institute of Master of Wine. Leading the pack will, of course be Pancho Campo, the first Master of Wine from Spain. He is the President of the Wine Academy of Spain which had taken the initiative of organizing the first WineFuture in Rioja in 2009 which claimed to be the biggest wine conference ever held and where the current initiative was conceptualized.

Other MWs to be present as speakers or moderators, besides Pancho will include Jancis Robinson (UK), Ned Goodwyn (Japan), Debra Meiburg and Jeannie Cho Lee (Hong Kong), Lisa Parretti Brown (Singapore),Tim Atkin (UK) and Essi Avelan (Finland).
David Furer (US), an educator and director of many wine events, who frequently has dinner in Europe and breakfast in California, is co-coordinating the speakers. ‘Co-coordinating the event with fifty five speakers and moderators is like managing  a full-fledged orchestra with international players from around the globe. But I am enjoying the challenge.’

Speakers include the heavyweight journalists and critics like Robert parker, Jancis Robinson, James Suckling, Steven Spurrier, Michelle Bettane, Adam Strum and Robert Joseph.