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International Noble Wines Exhibition is the only wine show dedicated
exclusively to fortified, dessert, and natural sweet wines. It is
held every two years in Jerez de la Frontera, the Andalusian town
that shares its name (sherry in English) with one of the most famous
wines produced in Spain.
The Vinoble site is Jerez’s Arab Alcazar whose interior encloses
the Renaissance Palace of Villavicencio. The stands are installed
in the palace’s rooms and gardens.
The best labels from more than 100 producing areas of fortified
and sweet wines gather at Vinoble:
Argentina: late harvests, natural sweet wines,
muscatels, botrytis and so forth.
Australia: noble rot.
Austria, fine rot sweet wines from Kremstal, Neusiedlersee
and Neusiedlersee-Hügelland.
Canada, icewines from the Ontario vineyards.
Chile, muscatels and late vintage semillon-sauvignon
and riesling-gewürztraminer.
France, wines originating in Sauternes, Barsac,
Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Mombazillac, Pacherenc, Gaillac,
Jurançon, Sainte Croix du Mont, Loupiac and Bergerac.

Germany, late vintage sweet wines, Auslese, Beerenauslese,
Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswine, from vineyards growing along the
banks of the Rhine and its tributaries.
Greece, wines from Samos, Santorini, Patras, Macedonia
and Crete.
Hungary, the legendary wines produced in the volcanic
hills of Tokaj.
Italy, holy wine, passito and moscato.
Japan: noble rot, sweet and fortified wines.
New Zealand, late harvests Riesling and Gewürztraminer.
Portugal, vintage ports, muscatels from Setúbal
and sweet wines from Madeira.
Slovenia, sweet wines made from Riesling, Sauvignon,
Chardonnay and Moscato.
Spain, an extensive variety of sweet and fortified
wines. Sherry with its finos, manzanillas, olorosos amontillados,
creams, pedro ximénez, pale creams, and muscatels; the finos,
amontillados, olorosos and Pedro Ximénez from Montilla-Moriles
(Cordoba); sweet wines from Catalonia; fortified wines from the
County of Huelva; muscatels from Valencia, Malaga and Navarra; fondillones
from Alicante; malmsey from the Canaries; sweet wines from Yecla
and Jumilla; late vintages from Rueda and Rias Baixas....
South Africa: botrytis, muscatels and late vintages.
Switzerland, late harvest from Valais.
United States: muscatels and dessert wines from
California.
Uruguay, late vintage Riesling and Gewürztraminer
The next edition will be the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of May
of 2008.
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