The wine year's big days: harvest fairs, open-cellar weekends and tastings worth planning a trip around.

318 festivals in 49 regions · 13 countries

France 10Italy 10Spain 7Germany 6Portugal 4Greece 3Austria 2Hungary 2Croatia 1England 1Georgia 1Slovenia 1Switzerland 1
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Editors' picks

The best wine festivals we cover

Our highest-rated festivals, at most two per region so every corner of the map gets a look.

4.9 Tuscany · Brunello di Montalcino Benvenuto Brunello Tasting of the freshly released Brunello (five-year-aged) and Brunello Riserva (six-year-aged) inside the cloisters of Sant'Agostino and the... 4.9 Bordeaux · Bordeaux region-wide Bordeaux En Primeur Week The annual en-primeur tasting week when international trade and press taste barrel samples of the new vintage at the chateaux before release.... 4.9 Jerez & Sherry Carreras de Caballos en la Playa de Sanlucar de Barrameda Held on the wet sand of the Calzada beach at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river since 1845, the Sanlucar beach horse races are among Europe's... 4.9 Rías Baixas · Cambados Festa do Albarino de Cambados The marquee event of the Rias Baixas calendar, the Festa do Albarino has run annually in Cambados since 1953 and is officially declared a Festival. 4.9 Jerez & Sherry Fiesta de la Vendimia de Jerez The traditional opening ceremony of the Jerez harvest, held on the steps of the Collegiate Church of San Salvador. The first grapes of the season... 4.9 Burgundy · Beaune Hospices de Beaune Wine Auction Charity barrel auction held in the Halles de Beaune on the third Sunday of November, run since 1859 and conducted with Christie's from 2005 to... 4.9 Veneto · Veronafiere, Verona Vinitaly Vinitaly is an international professional wine and spirits fair founded in Verona in 1967. Over 4,000 exhibitors from 140 countries fill the... 4.8 Valpolicella · Veronafiere, Verona Amarone Opera Prima The Valpolicella consortium's annual Amarone preview at the Gallerie Mercatali of Veronafiere, showing the new millesimo plus one selected older... 4.8 Veneto · Centro Storico, Verona Amarone Opera Prima The Consorzio Vini Valpolicella presents the new Amarone della Valpolicella vintage and select Riservas to international trade and press in Verona. 4.8 Bordeaux · Bordeaux quays Bordeaux Fete le Vin Bordeaux wine festival held biennially on the Garonne quays since 1998. 70+ wine pavilions, 35,000 tasting tokens sold; classified-growth chateaux... 4.8 Rioja · Haro Cata del Barrio de la Estacion (Haro Station Wine Experience) Held in June in Haro's station district, the world's densest cluster of century-old bodegas, this ticketed tasting opens the cellars of CVNE,... 4.8 Tuscany · Florence Chianti Classico Collection More than 200 Chianti Classico producers pour the new annata, Riserva and Gran Selezione vintages from over 680 labels at Stazione Leopolda in...

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