Vintage Destinations - International Wine Events in 2006

2006 Wine & Food Events

Montreal Passion Vin 2006
(November 24-25, 2006)
Visit: www.montrealpassionvin.ca

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Cornucopia 2006
(November 9-12, 2006)
Visit: www.whistlercornucopia.com
Call: 1.888.999.4566

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Okanagan Fall Wine Festival 2006
(September 29-October 8, 2006)

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Sonoma County Showcase
of Wine & Food 2006
(July 13-15, 2006)

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Vie Vinum 2006
www.vievinum.at
(June 10-12, 2006)

The VieVinum 2006 will be held at the Imperial Palace Hofburg in Vienna, Austria, from 11 to 7 pm daily (local time). This event will feature over 500 exhibitors.

Explore one of the Austrian Airlines packages for VieVinum starting at $1240 for June. To see hotel details on this offer click here. For more information on the complete packages call 1-800-EUROPE-1 (1-800-387-6731) or visit www.kompasexpress.com.

Wine Summit Lake Louise 2006
www.winesummitlakelouise.com
(June 1-4, 2006)

The second Wine Summit Lake Louise is held following the success of the inaugural event, along with the comments received from those who attended. This year's event will be head-lined by Châteaux Margaux.

The event promises to be a three-day celebration of wine, food and newfound friendships. At Wine Summit Lake Louise, you will have the opportunity to taste some wines, alongside the winemakers and owners of these estates.

The backdrop of this event is second-to-none! Nestled amidst the towering pines of Banff National Park and surrounded by the soaring peaks of the majestic Canadian Rockies. With its’ natural beauty and splendour, Lake Louise is recognized as both a World Heritage Site and a premiere vacation destination.

Fly WestJet to the Wine Summit, click here to see their website for their spring promotion (valid until June 28, 2006).

Vinoble 2006
www.vinoble.com
Fourth International Exhibiton of Noble Wines
(May 28-31, 2006)

The International Noble Wines Exhibition is the only wine show dedicated exclusively to fortified, dessert, and natural sweet wines. It is held every two years in Jerez de la Frontera, the Andalusian town that shares its name (sherry in English) with one of the most famous wines produced in Spain.

The best labels from all producing areas of fortified and sweet wines gather at Vinoble:

From Argentina, late harvests, natural sweet wines, muscatels, botrytis and so forth.
From Austria, fine rot sweet wines from Kremstal, Neusiedlersee and Neusiedlersee-Hügelland.
From Canada, icewines from the Ontario vineyards.
From Chile, muscatels and late vintage semillon-sauvignon and riesling-gewürztraminer.
From France, wines originating in Sauternes, Barsac, Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Mombazillac, Pacherenc, Gaillac, Jurançon, Sainte Croix du Mont, Loupiac and Bergerac.
From Germany, late vintage sweet wines, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswine, from vineyards growing along the banks of the Rhine and its tributaries.
From Greece, wines from Samos, Santorini, Patras, Macedonia and Crete.
From Hungary, the legendary wines produced in the volcanic hills of Tokaj.
From Italy, holy wine, passito and moscato.
From Japan, noble rot, sweet and fortified wines.
From New Zealand, late harvests Riesling and Gewürztraminer.
From Portugal, vintage ports, muscatels from Setúbal and sweet wines from Madeira.
From Slovenia, sweet wines made from Riesling, Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Moscato.
From Spain, an extensive variety of sweet and fortified wines. Sherry with its finos, manzanillas, olorosos amontillados, creams, pedro ximénez, pale creams, and muscatels; the finos, amontillados, olorosos and Pedro Ximénez from Montilla-Moriles (Cordoba); sweet wines from Catalonia; fortified wines from the County of Huelva; muscatels from Valencia, Malaga and Navarra; fondillones from Alicante; malmsey from the Canaries; sweet wines from Yecla and Jumilla; late vintages from Rueda and Rias Baixas....
From South Africa, botrytis, muscatels and late vintages.
From Switzerland, late harvest from Valais.
From United States, muscatels and dessert wines from California.
From Uruguay, late vintage Riesling and Gewürztraminer.

Madrid Fusion IV
Spanish Wines Take Flight

Read Michael's coverage of the Madrid Fusion 2006, click here

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