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Published on 2017-06-08

The Lyon International Competition has decided to help Lucas, a little boy with an unknown, crippling and incurable illness.
His dad, Fabrice, is constantly seeking funds to improve Lucas’s daily life, pay for his equine therapy, determine if clinics in other countries have therapies not...

Published on 2017-04-26

The 8th edition of the Lyon International Competition took place on Saturday, 25 March 2017, at the Cité Internationale in Lyon.
The 2017 edition demonstrated that the Competition is a rising star: 5800 wines were tasted! 800 tasters from France and around the world gathered to bestow 900 Gold...

Published on 2017-02-28

The 8th edition of the Lyon International Competition will be held on Saturday, 25 March 2017, at the Cité Internationale in Lyon. The event will give L’Ecole du Vin de France, a training organisation well-known in the Lyon area and our new partner, an opportunity to share its expertise with...

Published on 2016-12-16

The 8th edition of the Lyon International Competition will be held on Saturday, 25 March 2017, at the Cité Internationale in Lyon.
This competition, which is international in scope, will welcome more than 700 tasters whose task will be to taste and mark more than 5800 wines, beers and spirits....

Published on 2016-11-08

Gaëtan Bouvier is the new ‘Best Sommelier in France’. The 32 year-old alumnus of the Lesdiguières Hotel School in Grenoble is now head sommelier at the Villa Florentine in the heights of Old Lyon.
He is the winner of a competition that began in February, in Lyon, with a selection phase to...

Published on 2016-04-21

The 7th edition of the Lyon International Competition was a great success: this battle between wines, beers and spirits from across the globe brought the wine world together on April 2nd at the Cité International de Lyon for the space of a few hours.
This year’s biggest winner was a Graves 2014...

Published on 2016-01-19

In 2016, something new and special for the 600 tasters participating in the event.
The 2016 edition of the Lyon International Competition is about to begin! The tasting will take place on 2 April of this year, at the Cité Internationale in Lyon. In all, more than 4000 wines of all types (red,...

Published on 2015-10-30

This past October the wine world’s monthly magazine, La Vigne, devoted its special report to wine competitions.
Reporter Chantal Sarrazin focused on new competitions that are just becoming well-known, and on more established competitions that stay in the limelight by innovating. The report...

Published on 2015-06-30

Introducing the taster
LIC: Hello. Before we start talking about your participation in the Lyon International Competition and your impressions of the event, could you please introduce yourself? TS: Hello. My name is Théophile Schurra, I’m 21 years old and I’m studying engineering at CPE Lyon. ...

Published on 2015-03-25

The 6th edition of the Lyon International Competition was a great success: the 21st March battle between wines, beers and spirits from across the globe brought the European wine world together at the Cité International de Lyon for the space of a few hours. This year’s major winner was Château...