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VAIL, Colorado — Tickets are now on sale for the 20th annual Taste of Vail food and wine festival, which will be held at several venues throughout Vail, Colorado.
The festival is from April 8 to 10 and features more than 30 chefs, restaurateurs and sommeliers along with 50 wineries.
Over the 20 years of the Taste of Vail, renowned chefs such as San Francisco's George Marrone from Aqua and Traci Des Jardine of Jardiniere, Lee Jeftner of Spago in Beverly Hills and Colorado's own Curtis Lincoln from the Brown Palace Hotel have featured their award-winning dishes alongside Vail's finest chefs.
The festival also features the 6th annual Colorado Lamb Cookoff and Apres Ski Tasting, Mountaintop Picnic at 10,350 feet above sea level on Vail Mountain, the Grand Tasting, and numerous seminars and showcase dinners.
Following are a few highlights of the festival's seminars:
• Master Sommelier Jerry Comfort from Fosters Group will lead a seminar on “umami.” The term represents one of the basic “tastes” sensed by the mouth and is often referred to as savoriness.
• “Speed Dating with Pinot” offers a taste of wines not usually available for commercial purchase. Attendees can also ask the winemakers' questions.
• Wine 201 is a double-blind tasting seminar where attendees are given wine in a black coffee cup so they cannot discern some of the color and visually distinguishable characteristics of the pour.
Tickets begin at $4 for the Colorado Lamb Cookoff or attendees can purchase a $60 all-you-can eat and drink wristband for the competition. The Mountaintop Picnic is $120 with tickets for the Grand Tasting $175.
All proceeds from the Taste of Vail benefit local non-profit organizations in the Vail Valley such as the Red Ribbon Project, Boarder to Boarder, Food Banks of Eagle County, Shaw Regional Cancer Center, Eagle County Hospice, Jazz Goes to Schools, and the Vail Valley Youth Foundation to name a few.
For more information or to purchase tickets for the 20th Annual Taste of Vail, visit www.tasteofvail.com or call 970-926-5665.
The festival is from April 8 to 10 and features more than 30 chefs, restaurateurs and sommeliers along with 50 wineries.
Over the 20 years of the Taste of Vail, renowned chefs such as San Francisco's George Marrone from Aqua and Traci Des Jardine of Jardiniere, Lee Jeftner of Spago in Beverly Hills and Colorado's own Curtis Lincoln from the Brown Palace Hotel have featured their award-winning dishes alongside Vail's finest chefs.
The festival also features the 6th annual Colorado Lamb Cookoff and Apres Ski Tasting, Mountaintop Picnic at 10,350 feet above sea level on Vail Mountain, the Grand Tasting, and numerous seminars and showcase dinners.
Following are a few highlights of the festival's seminars:
• Master Sommelier Jerry Comfort from Fosters Group will lead a seminar on “umami.” The term represents one of the basic “tastes” sensed by the mouth and is often referred to as savoriness.
• “Speed Dating with Pinot” offers a taste of wines not usually available for commercial purchase. Attendees can also ask the winemakers' questions.
• Wine 201 is a double-blind tasting seminar where attendees are given wine in a black coffee cup so they cannot discern some of the color and visually distinguishable characteristics of the pour.
Tickets begin at $4 for the Colorado Lamb Cookoff or attendees can purchase a $60 all-you-can eat and drink wristband for the competition. The Mountaintop Picnic is $120 with tickets for the Grand Tasting $175.
All proceeds from the Taste of Vail benefit local non-profit organizations in the Vail Valley such as the Red Ribbon Project, Boarder to Boarder, Food Banks of Eagle County, Shaw Regional Cancer Center, Eagle County Hospice, Jazz Goes to Schools, and the Vail Valley Youth Foundation to name a few.
For more information or to purchase tickets for the 20th Annual Taste of Vail, visit www.tasteofvail.com or call 970-926-5665.
