There is already European Wine City 2025. The European Network of Wine Cities (RECEVIN) has chosen today at the meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels the Zaragoza town of Carignanwhich will carry out an extensive program of cultural, training and awareness-raising activities around wine over the next year.
Cariñena has risen above its rival, the Valencian town of Requenawith which it competed to become European City of Wine. In the end, the Aragonese candidacy has been chosen for its project promoted by the Cariñena City Council in collaboration with different entities such as the Cariñena Designation of Origin, its wines and the Vino de las Piedras Wine Tourism Route.
The mayor of Cariñena, Sergio Ortiz, who has been leading the delegation, has stated after learning of RECEVIN’s decision that this title “will allow promote the DO Cariñena and the wines of the area, giving them a boost at an international level“.
This title will allow Cariñena, who has achieved it on her second attempt, to have a national and international showcase for tourism promotion of the entire region and the localities of the DO, as well as the gastronomy of the area and its winesespecially those made within the designation of origin.
In fact, the Cariñena City Council has already started conversations with its three twinned municipalities in France, Germany and Romania and other European countries with ties around wine culture.
The forecast is that the DO Cariñena will organize meetings in the town of the main wine-growing entities in Spain in 2025, such as the Conference of Regulatory Councils, the Spanish Wine Federation or the Cooperatives of the sector.
The candidacy has been led by the Cariñena City Council, although it has gone hand in hand with the others 15 municipalities that make up the DO: Aguarón, Aladrén, Alfamén, Almonacid de la Sierra, Alpartir, Cosuenda, Encinacorba, Fuentedetodos, Longares, Mezalocha, Muel, Paniza, Tosos, Villanueva de Huerva and Vistabella de Huerva. “We want to carry out activities throughout 2025 in all of them,” said Sergio Ortiz.
To defend the Cariñena project in the vote, a delegation has traveled to Brussels that Ortiz has described as “very representative of the institutions and of those of us who have worked side by side on the candidacy.” Antonio Ubide, president of the Cariñena Denomination of Origin; Sara Morales, president of the Piedras Wine Route; Amparo Cuéllar, general director of Food Innovation and Promotion of the Government of Aragon, and Teresa Ladrero, vice president of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza. Furthermore, the mayor met in the European capital with the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and with the Aragonese MEPs Rosa Serrano (PSOE) and Borja Giménez Larraz (PP).
The Government of Aragon has shown its involvement with the initiative and has announced “extraordinary initiatives” to collaborate in the development of programming. Likewise, the Zaragoza Provincial Council has announced its determined support and a series of activities related to wine in coordination with the City Council and the DO Cariñena. In addition, the Cortes of Aragon approved an institutional declaration of support for the candidacy. And the Delegation of the Government of Spain in Aragon, the Justicia de Aragón and the other three wine appellations (Somontano, Campo de Borja and Calatayud) and their respective main town councils have also joined.
The presentation before the jury has had the support of the Aragonese genius Francisco de Goyaplayed by the singer and actor Augusto González, member of the well-known group B Vocal, who has glossed the excellence of Cariñena as a European City of Wine interacting with Sergio Ortíz. The final touch of the presentation consisted of a jota sung by the painter and choreographed by the dancers Alejandra Ezpeleta and Hugo Vijuesca.
In addition, the Aragonese company Music of Monuments has been in charge of the artistic coordination and audiovisual content of the event. The script for the presentation of the candidacy has been written by the Aragonese historian Domingo Buesa.
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