VI Black Sea Winemaking Forum will be held on 5-7 July 2019 in the biggest Black Sea resort - Sochi City, Russia. Sochi is the third biggest HoReCa regional wine market of Russia. The Forum will be held in the Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, which is located in the center of the resort on the first line by the sea.

Black Sea Winemking Forum is an international standing cooperation platform for wine sector of agricultural business and wine trade. The Forum is held with the support of Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation, Russian Union of Viticulturists and Winemakers, Association of Sparkling Wine Producers, Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia, Association “Alliance of Wine Producers” and the Union of Bulgarian Enologists.

Organizational partners of the VI Black Sea Winemaking Forum in Sochi City are Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Association of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Sochi City, Association of Sochi Boutique Hotels, Agency for External Economic and Regional Relations of Sochi.

Black Sea Winemaking Forum is a standing international cooperation platform for wine sector of agricultural business and wine trade. Since 2014 it organizes annually the specialized comprehensive branch event. A total more than 3000 professionals from the wine business sector, representing about 40 countries and more than 500 enterprises and organizations took part in the events during the first five years history of the Forums. Under the auspices of the Forum since 2014 the collaborative events and business mission trips were organized in Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova, Romania and some other countries. The annual meetings of the Forum determine basic directions for its other activities in wine business sector as an international standing body: they are country business missions, country and regional press tours, wine companies and wine brands promotions, specialized exhibitions, tasting workshops, conferences, wine and spirits competitions.

The Forum consists of the following activities:

exhibition of winemaking enterprises (wines and spirituous beverages) and the related sectors companies, the exhibition will be opened both to the professionals and to the amateur wine lovers (Sochi residents and numerous tourists from many Russian regions and foreign countries resting in this fashionable resort during high season)

Wine Digital panel - IT technologies for wine marketing: Innovation Platform Gustos.life and Wine Navigator iMVINO

master classes and companies’ presentations, tastings parties in the best Sochi restaurants

International Wine Contest “Black Sea Wines” The producers of wines, brandies and other spirituous beverages will compete for the awards in accordance with the OIV standards.

The Contest is an independent platform cooperating with plenty of media recourses in the region targeting both the professional and the consumer audiences. The results of the Contest are widely publicized in the countries of the region and they are particularly important for the wine sales in the Russian speaking consumer markets (300 million people). These consumer audiences are in general cannot follow in English the results of other wine contests and ratings.

Participation in the “Black Sea Wines 2019” Contest is free for the VI Black Sea Winemaking Forum participants.

Please fill the provided registration form. In response you will be sent the Participation Packages information. The Forum’s organizers also offer different promotional Packages for the companies wishing to be a partner of the Forum.

Themes and Program

VI BLACK SEA WINEMAKING FORUM

5-7 July 2019
Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA
Sochi City, ul. Chernomorskaya 4

PROGRAM

2-4 July

The work of the Degustation Commission of the International Wine Contest “Black Sea Wines 2019”

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA

5 July

09:30 – 10:00 Registration of the participants and speakers, conference “Wine Law Development in Comparative: Russia, South Caucasus, Balkans”

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, entrance to Congress Hall

10:00 – 12:00 Conference “Wine Law Development in Comparative: Russia, South Caucasus, Balkans”

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, Congress Hall

11:30 – 17:00 Registration of the participants and visitors, Forum’s Exhibition

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, entrance to Congress Hall

12:00 – 19:00 Exhibition and “on stage” company and country presentations opening hours

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, Congress Hall

12:30 – 12:50 Official opening of the VI Black Sea Winemaking Forum

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, Congress Hall

Greeting:
Vitaly Merkushev, Chair of the Board, Black Sea Winemaking Forum
Alan Sokolov, Director, Association of Sparkling Wine Producers
Boris Katryukhin, General Director, Association “Alliance of Wine Producers”
Sergey Lebedev, General Director of Alma Valley company
Tomislav Ivanovic, Chief Editor, Vinopedia Serbia
Konstantin Sibov, Association of Winemakers of Gagauzia "Gagauzia-Vin"
Representatives of Russian State Duma, Sochi City Administration, Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Representatives of the associations and unions of the wine producers and enologists from the countries participating in the Forum

12:50 – 13:10 Press approach: speakers of the opening ceremony and the International Wine Contest “Black Sea Wines 2019” Judges

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, Congress Hall

15:00 – 16:00 Wine Digital Panel: presentations of the IT technologies for wine marketing

• Multifunctional Wine Navigator iMVINO

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, “Congress Hall”

20:00 – 23:00 Wine Tasting Supper: New Wave of Moldovian Winemaking

Meeting with the owners and top managers of the Moldovian companies-participants of the Forum

Eno Gastro Restaurant "Po Tikhomu" (Sochi City, ul. Sovetskaya 40)

6 July

10:30 – 17:00 Registration of exhibitors and visitors

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA

11:00 – 19:00 Exhibition and “on stage” company presentations opening hours

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, Congress Hall

17:30 – 19:30 Wine Tasting Dinner: Wines of Georgia - autochthons and qvevri: secrets of success in the Russian market

Meeting with the owners and top managers of the Georgian companies-participants of the Forum

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, restaurant “Éclair”

19:30 – 23:15 Team Building tour: “Olympic and FIFA World Cup Heritage of Sochi, Formula One Circuit”

Pre-registration is required

7 July

09:30 – 17:00 Team Building tour to the mountains: “Krasnaya Polyana / Rosa Khutor”

Pre-registration is required

18:00 – 23:00 Gala Reception of the VI Black Sea Winemaking Forum

Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, restaurant “Éclair”

• Awards Ceremony of the “Black Sea Wines 2019” Contest Winners

• Wine tasting of the “Black Sea Wines 2019” Contest Winners

The program of the Forum may be slightly changed

The schedule of the master classes and presentations will be provided later

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Place and Time

VI Black Sea Winemaking Forum will be held on 5-7 July 2019 in the biggest Black Sea resort - Sochi City, Russia. Sochi is the third biggest HoReCa regional wine market of Russia. The Forum will be held in the Sea Galaxy Hotel Congress & SPA, which is located in the center of the resort on the first line by the sea.