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2010, twenty bodegas from Vinos Alicante in a big stand and no time to go and taste the food or see the gadgets or demonstrations on a day visit! 2011, five bodegas on the Vinos Alicante stand, some others lurking elswhere, including Francisco Gomez in the `Monster House´ and Heretats de Cecilia hosted by a couple of restaurants.....

  Vinos Alicante Stand at Lo Mejor de GastronomiaLo Mejor de Gastronomia is the professionals gourmet fair and is held in the modern exhibition centre near Alicante airport each year. Kindly invited by one of the exhibitors this was my first visit to this giant show. A mecca for the public and hotel and restaurant trade one could spend four days here and not have time to try everything on offer,

VII Certamen de Vinos de Venta del Moro.   Friday 6 August, a very hot day in Valencia with the relentless summer sun and humidity intensified by maritime cloud rolling in off the coast. However come 6 o´clock in the evening and it was time to drive the 100km inland from Valencia to the small wine growing town of Venta del Moro, also a centre for wine tourism and adventure holidays using the