Best Wine Festival (2018)

This three-day wine festival hosted four times per year in Paso Robles, Solvang, Sonoma and Los Angeles celebrates small-production winemaking – wineries and vineyards producing under 1,500 cases per year. In addition to the main festival, smaller events throughout the year include mini tastings and festivals focused on specific production areas, like the Santa Ynez Valley. The Paso Robles festival will be held November 9th through 11th.
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Florida’s 30A Wine Festival will return for its seventh year in early 2019. This four-day celebration benefiting the Children’s Volunteer Health Network features a wine dinner, barbecue and bourbon tasting, tasting seminars, a grand tasting, brunch and a croquet tournament, all set in the beautiful community of Alys Beach.
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Seed Food and Wine Week isn’t just another food festival. It’s a celebration of the plant-based foods movement that features more than 200 exhibitors, 40 plant-based chefs, celebrity speakers, dinners, tastings, parties and a yoga meditation brunch to wrap things up.
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Napa Valley Vintners will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2019 during its annual Auction Napa Valley, one of the nation’s top charity wine events dating back to 1981. The festival includes vintner-hosted parties, a single case auction and a live auction hosted on the grounds of Meadowood Napa Valley. Proceeds from the event benefit some 25 local nonprofits.
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For three days each July, some of the best Finger Lakes wineries come together in Watkins Glen for a weekend of fun in the sun, live music, cooking demos and the largest showcase of wines from New York state. More than 80 wineries attend the event at Watkins Glen International.
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This annual winter festival benefitting the Naples Children & Education Foundation is a three-day celebration that includes vintners dinners, a live wine auction, live music and a celebration brunch.
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Summer in Nantucket kicks off with the Nantucket Wine Festival each May – five days of world-class wines and award-winning foods served on one of the nation's most beautiful islands. Signature events include a harbor gala, grand tasting and wine dinner, with loads of wine-centric seminars and tastings.
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The name says it all. Chicago Gourmet celebrates the best bites and sips in the Windy City in Millennium Park each September. The event typically features plenty of celebrity chefs, wine and cocktail seminars, over a dozen Master Sommeliers in attendance, tastings and special parties at 10 iconic Chicago locations.
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Each spring Seattle welcomes wine enthusiasts from around the world to Taste Washington, the largest single-region wine and food event in the U.S. During the four-day event, 230 wineries and 65 restaurants gather in one place. The schedule includes a grand tasting, wine dinners and seminars on Washington wines.
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Oregon is known throughout the world for its outstanding Pinot Noirs, and this grape is celebrated each July during the annual International Pinot Noir Celebration. Now in its 32nd year, this three-day event includes vineyard tours, winery lunches, special tastings and numerous seminars on Pinor Noir-related topics.
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