After finalizing the Spanish Wine Education Programm for 2008 - 2009, the list of the best results have been finally published. Students had to pass the correspondent exams of this intensive course, where more than 50 different types of Spanish wines were tasted.

Winners, coming most of them from USA, as well as representatives from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Shanghai, have been awarded with a trip to visit important wineries in Spain. The trip will allow the winners to visit during one week the regions of Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Andalusia.

During the one week long trip, which will take place in the Fall of 2010, the 15 winners will be accompanied by Pancho Campo, first and only Spanish Master of Wine and founder of The Wine Academy of Spain. They will also have the opportunity to meet the wine makers and owners of the wineries visited.

Natalja Eggen (Belgium)
Mari Laiti (Finland)
Susan Rees (United Kingdom)
Klaus Renner (Germany)
Maria Laurila (Sweden)
Stephen Gonda (USA-Denver)
Stephen RTefteller (USA-Houston)
Gretchen Thomas (USA-New Haven)
Toni Ketrenos (USA-Portland)
Herbert Monterrosa (USA-San Diego)
Julie Dalton (USA -Washington)
Rodolphe Boulanger (USA-New York)
Carol Gripshover (USA-New York)
François Lemonnier (Shanghai)
Stephen House (Hong Kong)