Vinexpo New York will be held on 5 and 6 March 2018 at Manhattan’s Javits Convention Center, the wine trade expo group said.

The US is the world’s largest wine market. It imported the equivalent of 983 million bottles in 2016 and this is set to rise by 4.8% up to 2020, according a report by Vinexpo and research group IWSR.

Guillaume Deglise, Vinexpo’s CEO, told Decanter.com that the expo group was keen to ‘capitalise’ on this.

Vinexpo New York will not be a biennial event, like Vinexpo Bordeaux or Vinexpo Hong Kong, but an annual, two-day fair.

The fair will be organised with American events business Diversified Commnunications.

It has taken five years for Vinexpo to announce a fresh attempt at breaking into the US wine scene. Its previous leadership tried to organise a consumer event, Rendez-Vous, in New York in 2012 – but was forced to cancel.

Read more at source: Decanter