The Wine Festival (1865, Albert Anker , Switzerland)The costume of Dolní Němčí in Uherské Hradiště , the Czech Republic Annual wine festivals celebrate viticulture and usually occur after the harvest of the grapes which, in the northern hemisphere, generally falls at the end of September and runs until well into October or later. They are common in most wine regions around the world and are to be considered in the tradition of other harvest festivals.
The Egyptian god Osiris was dedicated to wine, but the oldest historically documented wine festivals can be traced back to the Greek celebrations for their wine god Dionysos .[citation needed ] The typical ingredients of a wine festival include wine drinking, grape pressing, regional foods, music and, in many areas, religious ritual.
In culture Fields of grape vines The grape , and the extraction of its juice to produce wine, is more than a flavorsome food or drink. Both grapes and wine have immense cultural significance in many cultures, and often religious significance too.
Competitions
Festivals Stellenbosch Wine Festival in South Africa Wine festival in the USA Budavári Borfesztivál, 2014
Australian festivals
Brazilian festivals Festa do Vinho (Santa Catarina) Festa do Vinho de Andradas
Canadian festivals Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival, British Columbia Niagara Wine Festival, St. Catharines, Ontario
German festivals Baden Hessische Bergstraße Mosel Moselfest, Winningen Weinfest der Mittelmosel, Bernkastel-Kues Palatinate Burg- und Weinfest, Wachenheim Deidesheimer Weinkerwe, Deidesheim Deutsches Weinlesefest, Neustadt Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt , Bad DürkheimEselshautfest, Mußbach Fest des Federweißen, Landau Kändelgassenfest, Großkarlbach Mandelblütenfest, Gimmeldingen Stadtmauerfest, Freinsheim Rheingau Rheinhessen Weinmarkt Mainz, Mainz Backfischfest, Worms Saxony Herbst- und Weinfest, Radebeul Württemberg Fellbacher Herbst, Fellbach Weindorf, Stuttgart
French festivals la paulee de mersault, Burgundy, France
Hungarian festivals 16th-century wine press Badacsony Wine Weeks, Badacsonytomaj Balatonboglár Grape Harvest Days, Balatonboglár Balatonfüred Wine Weeks, Balatonfüred BorZsongás, wine festival of Villány Budapest International Wine Festival, Budapest - the largest Hungarian wine festival (about 50,000 people per festival) [1] Budavári Borfesztivál, Budapest Eger Grape Harvest Festival, Eger Eger Star Wine Festival (Egri Csillag Borfesztivál), Eger Etyek Cellar Festival, Etyek Gourmet Festival, Budapest Grape Harvest Festival of Tokaj-Hegyalja, Tokaj Győr Wine Days, Győr Pannonhalma Wine Region Cellar Festival, Pannonhalma Rosé Riesling and Jazz Days, Veszprém Sopron Grape Harvest Days, Sopron Szekszárd Grape Harvest Festival, Szekszárd Tihany Grape Harvest Days, Tihany Tokaj Wine Festival, Tokaj Villány Grape Harvest Festival, Villány VinAgora, Budapest Wine Festival of Balaton's wines, Budapest
United States festivals North Carolina Wine Festival participants Beaujolais Wine Festival, Dallas , Texas [2] Boston Wine Festival , Massachusetts Cleveland Wine festival, Cleveland, Ohio [3] Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival , Miami Beach, Florida French Quarter Wine Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana [4] Hilton Head Island Wine and Food Festival, one of the oldest in the US Keystone Wine and Jazz Festival, Keystone, Colorado Maryland Wine Festival , Maryland Naples Grape Festival , Naples , New York North Carolina Wine Festival Paso Robles Wine Festival , California San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival , CaliforniaSimply Wine Festival, California Oregon Wine Experience, Oregon Tallahassee Wine and Food Festival , Florida Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival , CaliforniaVendemmia Festival Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [5] Vendemmia Festival Societa' DaVinci, Wilmington, Delaware [6]
Argentinian festivals
Other festivals Feria Nacional de San Marcos , Aguascalientes , Mexico Festival of Wine, United Kingdom Haro Wine Festival , Haro, Spain Port Wine Fest, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal Qormi Wine Festival , Malta Vendemmia Festival Sicily, Sicily, Italy [7] Vineyard Harvest of Surco, Santiago de Surco , Peru Wine Festival of Cyprus , Limassol , Republic of Cyprus Zielona Góra Wine Fest , Poland
See also
References ^ "Budapest Borfesztivál". ^ Dallas Texas Annual Beaujolais Wine Festival ^ "Welcome to the Cleveland Wine Festival". www.clevelandwinefestival.com . Archived from the original on 2006-06-18. ^ New Orleans Louisiana, French Quarter Wine Festival ^ "Vendemmia Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA". Archived from the original on 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2009-10-03 . ^ Vendemmia Festival Societa' DaVinci of Wilmington, Delaware, USA ^ Vendemmia Festival, Sicily, Italy
External links List of Balkan wine festivals