This year’s Vinistra, marking the 15th anniversary of the exhibition, closed its doors in Poreč. The members of the Vinistra Association and organisers of this wine and food event are extremely satisfied with the results, not just concerning the number of visitors, exhibitors and media, but also due to the steady increase of the exhibition’s quality.

Vinistra is not a selling exhibition. Its aim is to present wine, olive oil and pršut producers who, apart from making new business contacts, learn about the most recent trends and facilities in production and promotion.

The interests of winemakers was drawn to expert lectures on the Winegrowing and Winemaking Sector in Croatia and on the Reform of the Wine Sector in the EU. Other visitors were mostly interested in attending guided tasting of the wines awarded this year in the Vinistra competition part, tasting of wines coming from the Region of Dubrovnik and Neretva and presented by the “Plavac mali” Association and tasting of collection wines (including one Malvasia from 1997) under the guidance of Sandi Paris, top Croatian sommelier and Education Manager with the Croatian Sommelier Club.

On the last day of the Vinistra exhibition, which is traditionally reserved for business partners, the tasting of the wine Muškat Ruža Porečka (the Rose of Poreč Muscat) was organized. The Muškat Ruža Porečka is also the name of the project led by the Institute of Viticulture and Enology of the Faculty of Agronomy in Zagreb – Prof. Bernard Kozina, Ph.D., Marko Karoglavi, M.Sc. and assistants.

This year, for the first time in Vinistra, in cooperation with the company RadinR and under the patronage of Electrolux Professional the Vinistra Gourmet was inaugurated and immediately recorded an extraordinary interest of the visitors who could taste first-rate culinary creations demonstrated to the public by the chefs of the most renowned Istrian restaurants.