Wine festival

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. 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

Canadian festivals

German festivals

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

Argentinian festivals

Other festivals

See also

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Dallas Texas Annual Beaujolais Wine Festival
  3. ↑ http://www.clevelandwinefestival.com/
  4. ↑ New Orleans Louisiana, French Quarter Wine Festival
  5. ↑ Vendemmia Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  6. ↑ Vendemmia Festival Societa' DaVinci of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
  7. ↑ Vendemmia Festival, Sicily, Italy
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