They say – better late than never. So due to the workload we had for the past few months, I couldn’t find much time to write anything new, yet quite a lot of new stuff happened which I will write about over the next few months. I will start with the London International Wine Fair 2009, which according to statistics was slightly less attended than last year’s show, yet the quality of visitors was higher than ever they say (more visitors turned up more than just in one day). And I have been a contributor to that fact too actually. Initially I had in plans to attend just on the day of opening, check the Decanter competition results out, see a few producers and make myself out. Well, said is not enough.
I didn’t get too much disappointed that our Cricova Gratiesti just got a commended award, as it was the only wine from Moldova to win something and at the end of the day, this is not a wine that would go well without a dessert to it, so I forgave the judges and moved on to check what was interesting to taste. Firstly I made my way into the Wine Gang’s top 100 wines. There were several interesting ones I liked …… including the Leon Stolarski ones – great job he does. A lot of those who were doing the same thing as me seemed to have a genuine interest in wines, yet I had to see a few producers which we agreed in advance to meet, so I couldn’t taste them all 100 wines as you can imagine…
Anyway, an old Moldavian proverb says – ‘Too much talk is one’s poverty’, so I wont go into details as to what I did and who I saw, but better show a few pictures from the show for your eyes delight.

It was great to see so many countries being represented and disappointing to see no Moldova this year. Furthermore, even the Bulgarians and Romanians missed them this time as they used to be opposite eachover in the previous years. Well, Ciest Le Vie as French say – the political and economical situation in Moldova is not the best at the moment, so what can you do.