Actually, the Great Wine Capitals Global Network is an organization
gathering cities, major business centers their country, and that are
also in the middle or closely linked to internationnally renowned
vineyards. The member cities thus share a common cultural and economic
asset: the wines. This allows the members to share experience, to
learn from each other, to develop their notoriety in terms of tourism,
their business, their image on the international scale. Bilbao and
Rioja have a lot in common in terms of wine business, like Porto being
the shipping port for the Douro wines... And I'm sure you could not
argue that Cape Town or Mendoza really are the wine capitals of their
country...
Catherine Leparmentier, Permanent Sercretary, Great Wine Capitals
Global Network