Venue: The Grand Hotel Birmingham, The Temple Room, 27 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2BS
Date: Monday 12th September 2022 10:30-17:30

We had a brilliant time at the International Wine Challenge Merchant Awards in London last night. After a couple of tough years for the industry it was inspiring to be together with such a fantastic group of people with so much to celebrate.

It’s that time of year again – awards season! We’ve been so excited to see so many of our wines recognized this year. We’ve been sharing awards on social media as they’ve come through, but this is a convenient round-up of the 2022 awards season.

We’re so excited to be back at Olympia after 3 years away! We hope that we’ll be seeing lots of you in London next week. This is just a taster of what we’ll be showcasing. Please let us know if you are planning to visit, we we can plan time for a proper welcome on our stand (C42).

Meet the team! And some exciting news just in…. Team Condor has grown throughout 2021 and 2022 so we wanted to take this opportunity to introduce the newest members of our team – Rob, Mark, Linda and Emma – as well as remind you of the rest of the team who are here to help whenever you need us. We didn’t want to repeat the information you can find on our website’s About Us page, so we thought we’d ask the team something a little different so you could really get to know them.

World Malbec Day 2022 April 17th is a big day in our calendar every year. It’s World Malbec Day! First celebrated in 2011, the day is a global initiative from Wines of Argentina marking the role of the country in rescuing and developing the Malbec grape to its current emblematic status. Why April 17th? It was on this date in 1853 that French agronomist Michel Aimé Pouget officially introduced Malbec to Argentina as a way of growing the national wine industry.

From humble beginnings, the Falasco Family story is an impressive and inspiring one. Arriving along a well-trodden path from his native Italy in 1939, Octavio Falasco started a wine business in the small town of Chacabuco outside Buenos Aires.

We’re very excited to introduce the latest producer to join the Condor family. We’ve long admired Casarena and their single-minded focus on the important Mendoza sub-region of Lujan de Cuyo so when we got the opportunity to represent them in the UK, we seized it immediately.

We can’t wait to see you all at the Specialist Importers’ Trade Tastings in London and Manchester next week. Give us a heads up if planning to come to either event! If you can’t make it, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us about any of these wines and we’ll be happy to tell you more.

NEW to Condor Wines – Marco Puyo’s Vina DAGAZ – I remember first tasting the Dagaz wines with winemaker Marco Puyo in January 2019 in Santiago. I was writing a guide to Latin American wines with the Cata d’Or Wine Awards competition, of which I was the president.