Sponsor:

INSTITUTO SILESTONE

To make cooking professionals aware of the new formulas to improve health and safety in the kitchen.
Explanations and talks will cover both existing risks as well as offering solutions and kitchen viewings and will conclude with the demonstration of a technique which allows food preservation with a safety guarantee
Screening of the video "24 hours of a bacterium inside a kitchen"

GLASS OF VILLA MASSA

Sponsor: LACTALIS RESTAURACIÓN José Manuel Escorial will pose some direct and practical questions to the panel.
He will give us some tips on how to increase restaurant profits via the cheese board:  Can profits be increased by offering a cheese cart? Which is the ideal cheese board? How many cheeses should we offer? Is serving cheeses before and after dinner worth it?
The cheese defender award will be given at the close of the conference.
Apart from the talk, outside the hall, the world's most spectacular cheese board will be on display courtesy of Xavier Thuret

Sponsor: COCA - COLA The role Coca-cola can play in the manufacturing of small after-dinner sweets at low temperature.
An unpublished presentation to the culinary world on the extent to which the texture of Coca-cola can be modified into half fluid or semisolid forms.
Our expert speakers will prepare their amazing recipes using Coca-cola as their main ingredient.

Sponsor:

DIAGEO

Whisky & Food by Cardhu Special Cask reserve, Talisker 10 and Lagavulin 16
A new offering devised by Diageo comprising a blend of some tapas, created by these prestigious chefs, and three different kinds of malt whisky.
They will talk about their dishes and the ingredients and techniques used in their preparation; the speakers will also explain why the flavours, aromas and textures of the dishes blend so perfectly with the flavours, aromas and textures of whiskies.
Guided tasting of the tapas, marinated with whisky

Sponsor: COVAP Precooked dishes (5th range products) The role these dishes can play in conjuring up strategic menus for groups and big events.
The chef from Covap will explain how their precooked dishes are made and Kisko García, chef of El Choco, will talk about his regeneration, finishing and adornment techniques.

Sponsor:

ICEX

A trip through the most novel and interesting wine labels to have appeared over the last year on the Spanish wine scene, paying particular attention to wines from less known Spanish wine producing regions that have attracted little press atention. A presentation of premieres, which in a way aims to open attendees eyes to the new offerings of an ever expanding wine industry.

Sponsor: D.O. RÍAS BAIXAS

Supported by the  ICEX
  
The wine tasting will focus on a selection of Albariño wines. These Galician whites have managed to redefine the historical interpretation specialists and the public at large used to have of these Spanish white wines - accepted as vintage wines with scant ageing potential - diversifying their profiles by means of the ageing on lees or in tanks. Rías Baixas white wines are today´s most representative sample of the ageing potential possessed by some Spanish vineyard white wines, and the Albariño variety itself represents the flagship on this new generation of white wines created to mellow with the years.

 

Sponsor: D.O. RIBERA DEL DUERO Supported by the ICEX
25 years have passed since the birth of this Designation of Origin, a bench mark among Spanish wines, and once this wine comes of age, the 21st century will show us a Ribera del Duero without inhibitions and with a wine wealth in terms both of authors and well established national wineries which without doubt bestows on this region a great potential for international critics. This reach heritage will be the source from which 15 of their best wines will be selected for a presentation where classic and new born wines will live together.

Sponsor: GRANDES PAGOS DE ESPAÑA Supported by the ICEX
A trip through the most outstanding features endowed to the small wine growing regions of our country. This wine tasting sponsored by the association of select wineries of the same name, which will offer delegates the chance to fully appreciate for themselves the quality of the most recently produced wines achieved through respect and fidelity for the native soil where the wines are cultivated. The requirements to join the ranks of this selected group are demanding; while the urge which brings them together is universal. The seduction of the unique as opposed to globalized uniformity.

Sponsor: C.R.D.O. Ca Rioja Supported by the ICEX
Offered by the Regulatory Board of the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin.
A tasting of various UEC selected wines, following assessment by national and international critics, will be introduced in terms of their excellent price/quality relationship among all the Qualified Designation of Origin Wines. No doubt about it, this is going to be a really useful tasting for all the attending professionals and will demonstrate once again why Rioja is still a wine making power due to its variety, global quality and diversity of wines.