Thursday, April 14, 2005

Flooded

Zürich's wine lovers were happy that the weather was not so good over the last couple of weeks, because we had two wine exhibitions in a row. This can be explained with Shakespeare's Othello, where Iago says: "O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."

Zürich's most successful wine exhibition are the wine ships in Autumn. At the end of the shipping season, the tourist ships are moored alongside the jetties. The wine dealers' stalls are on these ships. This show is running since 1953 and the ships are always crowded.

Another exhibitor started with the Wein04 exhibition last Spring, trying to get a share of the cake with an annual exhibition. Of course, the wine ship exhibitor had immediately succumbed to the green-eyed monster and launched his own show called Expovina Primavera this Spring.

The result was that both shows seemed to have had only a mediocre number of visitors. However, due to the less crowded exhibitions, one had not to use the elbows to taste the wines.

No comments: