•The Gourmet Club provides IE students with the unique opportunity of getting to know the best of the Spanish wines and gastronomy by hosting several talks and tasting events with invited speakers and tasters. The Club members are in contact with several companies and official entities who wish to show their products to the international body of IE and thus raise international awareness on their gourmet brands.

•Fine wine tasting events were hosted, from the regions of Ribera del Duero, Rias Baixas and Jerez as well as a tasting of Turrón, a Spanish sweet delicacy. With part of the Club’s earnings we contributed with a whole jamón and wine bottles to the Global Village cocktail fundraising for “Children with West Syndrome”.

September, 2005. The IE Sailing Team, and their yacht “Favela Chic”, won 2nd place at the MBA’s Cup Regatta held on September 23rd and 24th in Santa Margherita Ligure, near Genoa, Italy.

Its eight member crew hailed from seven different countries and was skippered expertly by Johannes Tinsobin. This year, the prestigious regatta brought together around 400 MBA students and alumni from the leading business schools in Europe and the US. Crews and spectators from the 15 participating schools shared their passion for sailing and soaked up the atmosphere in one of Italy’s most picturesque harbours.

The IE team comprised IMBAs 2005 Johannes Tinsobin (Austria), Niels Bjerregaard (Denmark), Edward Ungar (UK), Carlos Vázquez (Spain), Eiliv Bugge Fougner (Norway), Laurence van Lancker (Italy), Chris Wheatley (UK) and Manfred Hick (Germany). They delivered consistently good results throughout all four races (including two 2nd place finishes) and sailed their Jeanneau Sun Fast 37 to second position overall.