Wine festival

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Considered the largest wine festival in the world: the Dürkheim sausage market

A wine festival , and wine festival , vintage festival , wine festival , French fête des vignerons or fête des vendanges called, is a recurring event, dedicated to wine , wineries and vineyards concerned. In some wine-growing areas of southwest Germany , early festivals with New Wine , the dates of which depend on the beginning of the grape ripening, are also called Bitzler Festival .

As a well-known wine festivals are below events listed that have their own products.

Characteristic

Wine festivals in the sense of the introduction

Wine festivals as regular events have existed in Germany for a long time. The Dürkheim sausage market as the most important wine festival began in 1417. As folk festivals , they initially established themselves in typical wine-growing regions .

More and more websites are helping to find wine festivals depending on the time, place or wine-growing region on the Internet. The German Wine Institute has had a smartphone app since 2010 that allows a search function for winemakers and wine festivals.

"Wine festivals" outside the wine-growing regions

Since around the middle of the 20th century, so-called wine or vintner festivals have also spread increasingly in regions that are not covered by wine-growing. Wine dealers or winemakers, for example, present their range, or municipalities or local merchants' associations are the initiators. The opening is often done by wine queens as representatives of a particular wine-growing region. More and more often, local associations call their open-air event Wine Festival . On such occasions, however, it is usually only the offer of wine on the drinks menu that establishes the relationship to the wine.

Well-known wine festivals

Germany

Austria

Switzerland

France

Web links

Wiktionary: Weinfest  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Albrecht Steinecke: Cultural Tourism: Market Structures, Case Studies, Perspectives . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 213–215 ( books.google.de [accessed September 8, 2011]).
  2. ↑ Deutsches Weininstitut: iPhone app "Wine Targets". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 22, 2012 ; Retrieved September 8, 2011 .