Barcelona hosted the International Wine & Culinary Forum, the first international conference on harmony and interaction between wine and food, and the complementarity of the two in the gourmet menus.
The event, sponsored by Bodegas Torres and aimed at professionals, was held at the Hotel ME Barcelona. The conference program has been developed by the Advisory Committee recognized Forum, composed of Josep Roca, François Chartier, Nick Lander and Victor de la Serna. The day was attended by 240 professionals from the world of wine and gastronomy as Meritxell y Toni Falgueras del Celler de Gelida, Juan Antonio Herrero del Restaurante Lágrimas Negras, Joan Ras, Presidente de la Acadèmia Catalana de Gastronomia, Rosa Esteve del Grupo Tragaluz, Juli Soler de El Bulli, Marie Louise Bayols de Lavinia, Isabel Brunet de Monvínic o Joan Carles Ibañez del Lasarte, among others, and sommeliers from countries like the Netherlands, Canada, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.
This is the first time you perform a feature event where sommeliers, chefs, winemakers and tasters world’s most reputed discussed in the most objective and scientific as possible the reality on the complementarity between food and wine, a event has been made possible by Bodegas Torres and his great interest in disseminating and researching wine culture. In the words of the award-winning chef Alain Senderens, “to think the dishes, wine makes us progress and improve.”
Among the speakers who have participated in the conference included the presence of Peruvian Gaston Acurio, who has shown the challenges of fusion cooking wine, Josep Roca, who spoke about the profession of sommelier, François Chartier, who explained the science aromatic cuisine and wine, for his part, Alain Senderens has revealed the experiences in which the wine has inspired some of his dishes, and to finish Jancis Robinson, Nick Lander and Victor de la Serna have debated the place occupies the wine in the restaurant.
Congress also offered attendees a monographic tasting of wines from wineries belonging to the International Association Primum Familiae Vini.