Pancho Campo (born September 13, 1961, in Santiago, Chile [1] ) is a Spanish event organiser, former tennis professional, captain of the Chilena Olympic Team in Barcelona 92 and Davis Cup Coach for the Qatar National Team. He was, from 2008 until May 2012 accredited with the title of Master of Wine. [2] He was the first Chilean to pass all the exams of the Master of Wine certification, [3] and has conducted seminars and wine tastings with wine experts in more than 20 countries. [4]
Campo is the CEO of Chrand Marketing & Events, which specializes in the marketing and organization of sporting, musical, wine and environmental events. The company has organized concerts with artists including Sting, Pink Floyd, UB40, Enrique Iglesias and Tom Jones. [5] In sport, Chrand has organized the Davis Cup, the Indoor Trial World Cup, the Pro Beach Soccer Tour and tournaments with Andre Agassi, Stefan Edberg and Pat Cash.[ citation needed ] It has also organized conferences with speakers such as Al Gore, Kofi Annan, Juan Verde and Francis Ford Coppola.[ citation needed ]
Campo is a former tennis professional. He participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona as a coach for the Chilean Female Olympic Tennis Team. Campo was the National Tennis Director for the Qatar Tennis & Squash Federation and the Davis Cup coach, leading the Qatari team to win Davis Cup in 1994 and the GCC Games. He was also the coach of several professional tennis players in the ATP Tour, such as Gilles Bastié, Tomás Carbonell, Billy Uribe and Juan Carlos Baguena amongst others. Pancho worked for the tennis academy of Nick Bollettieri for over 7 years, in the US, Spain and the Middle East. He also founded the International Tennis Coaches Symposium that took place in Murcia, Barcelona, Madrid and Alicante. He was instrumental in the development of the Bollettieri International Coaches Program. He conducted numerous tennis exhibitions and the Pancho Campo Tennis Show with celebrity players such as Andre Agassi, Pat Cash, Stefan Edberg, Emilio Sánchez Vicario, Richard Krajicek and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, amongst many others. [6]
In 2003, Campo founded The Wine Academy of Spain and developed the Spanish Wine Education international certification program, the representative of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) for Spain. The academy was involved in the research of climate change in the wine industry and organised the World Conference on Climate Change and Wine in 2006 and 2008. Campo was trained by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and is a part of The Climate Project. [7] [8] [9] [10] In 2008, Campo became the first Spanish Master of Wine, [7] though was alternately cited the first MW of Chile. [1]
He has carried out more than 100 conferences in over 30 different countries, including Winefuture Rioja 2009, [11] [ failed verification ] Winefuture Hong Kong 2011, [12] Climate Change and Wine 2011, [13] Innova Marbella 2013, [14] and Thinking Green Gibraltar. [15] [ failed verification ]
Ahead of the Winefuture Rioja 09 event with international wine personalities including Robert Parker, Jancis Robinson MW, Oz Clarke, Steven Spurrier, Miguel Torres, Robert Joseph and Gary Vaynerchuk due to speak, an outstanding warrant for the location of Campo issued by the UAE in 2003 and subsequent Interpol Red Notice became public knowledge. [16] [17] In October 2009, Campo announced he had resigned as president of The Wine Academy of Spain and stepped down as director of the Winefuture Rioja, to be replaced by Kevin Zraly, in order to 'focus on clearing his name'. [18] In July 2010 Interpol removed from their website the warrant for Campos' location, and Campo issued a message to the press stating, "I have been informed today that Interpol accepted my request to take my name out of their list. They have found that a mistake was made and an injustice was committed against me". [19]
In October 2011, Campo was involved in the controversy of paid-for wine visits to wineries with Dr. Jay Miller (the official critic reviewing Spanish wine for Robert Parker's publication The Wine Advocate ) termed "Jumillagate" or "Murciagate" or "Campogate". The story was revealed by Vincent Pousson, Jacques Berthomeau and Jim Budd, [20] [21] [22] which grew to attract wide attention in the wine journalism industry and resulted in the departure of Miller from The Wine Advocate. [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] Having received a formal complaint into Campo's alleged conduct, in December 2011 the Institute of Masters of Wine launched an investigation into whether Campo had breached its code of conduct. Separately Parker announced he had initiated a legal investigation into the events to be conducted by Steve Haas of the law firm Cozen O’Connor. [29]
Campo resigned from the institute of the Masters of Wine on May 3, 2012, informing of his move away from wine and into more sports and music events. [2] Following Campo's resignation, the Institute of Masters of Wine terminated its investigation of the alleged breaches of code of conduct.
Rioja is a wine region in Spain, with denominación de origen calificada. Rioja wine is made from grapes grown in the autonomous communities of La Rioja and Navarre, and the Basque province of Álava. Rioja is further subdivided into three zones: Rioja Alta, Rioja Oriental and Rioja Alavesa. Many wines have traditionally blended fruit from all three regions, though there is a slow growth in single-zone wines.
Chasselas or Chasselas blanc is a wine grape variety grown mainly in Switzerland, France, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, New Zealand, Croatia and Chile. Chasselas is mostly vinified to be a full, dry and fruity white wine. It is also suitable as a table grape, grown widely for this purpose in Turkey and Hungary.
Jancis Mary RobinsonOBE, ComMA, MW is a British wine critic, journalist and wine writer. She currently writes a weekly column for the Financial Times, and writes for her website JancisRobinson.com, updated daily. She provided advice for the wine cellar of Queen Elizabeth II.
John Michael Broadbent, MW was a British wine critic, writer and auctioneer in a capacity as a Master of Wine. He was an authority on wine tasting and old wines.
Hugh Eric Allan Johnson is an English journalist, author, editor, and expert on wine. He is considered the world's best-selling wine writer. A wine he tasted in 1964, a 1540 Steinwein from the German vineyard Würzburger Stein, is considered one of the oldest to have ever been tasted.
The Cru Bourgeois classification lists some of the châteaux from the Médoc that were not included in the 1855 Classification of Crus Classés, or Classed Growths. Notionally, Cru Bourgeois is a level below Cru Classé, but still of high quality. Many wine writers consider that there is some overlap in quality between the Classed Growths and the Cru Bourgeois, although also saying that by and large the Classed Growths still represent the best wines.
John Radford, born in Nottingham on 1 December 1946, died on 19 October 2012, was a British writer and broadcaster in the field of wine and food, with an emphasis on Spain. He was educated at Stamford School in Lincolnshire.
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The Wine Advocate, fully known as Robert Parker's Wine Advocate and informally abbreviated TWA or WA or more recently as RP, is a bimonthly wine publication based in the United States featuring the consumer advice of wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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James Suckling is an American wine and cigar critic and former Senior Editor and European Bureau Chief of Wine Spectator as well as European Editor of Cigar Aficionado. Suckling is internationally regarded as one of the world's most influential wine critics, and one of the most experienced critics of vintage cigars.
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Daniel Javier Caverzaschi Arzola is a Spanish wheelchair tennis player. He represented Spain in 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics...
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