It has been officially announced this morning that ProWein is being postponed from March to May this year, with the new dates clashing with the UK’s London Wine Fair.
ProWein, which was due to run form 27-29 March, after two years of cancelled shows, has postponed the event to later this year due to “the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.”
DB has contacted both the organisers of ProWein and the London Wine Fair for comment on the clash, and will be bringing our readers updates on the situation as soon as we hear more.
In the statement from ProWein released this morning, Wolfram N. Diener, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf – the organisers of the annual wine and spirits exhibition – said that both the fair’s “partners and associations involved” regard the early summer “as the ideal period”, citing the fact that there’s an expectation that Covid infection rates will have fallen by May.
He commented that new timing would mean that “exhibiting companies as well as visitors can do their business in an environment that is clearly less affected by Covid-19.”
