These discussions, in which the Director General of the OIV took part, brought important experts and award winners from the Academy together around three round tables: viticulture and oenology, legislation and the market, and wine and culture.
The idea of this discussion, as for the publication, was to compare the award winners' prospective vision of the wine world to that of leading figures who have modelled it so far.
Founded in 1992 by Américo Amorim, President of the Amorim group (the leading company in the world for cork production), the mission of the Academy is to improve knowledge about wine and support oenological research. It is for this reason that every year it presents two awards to young oenology students or young authors in the fields of wine-related sociology or legal expertise.
The Amorim Academy has observer status at the OIV.
