Putting Wine First

Welcome to our new website! The United Way Miami Wine & Food Festival has been around for 17 years, but a new website gives me an opportunity to give a fresh welcome to everyone who shares our love of wine and food, and especially for how the two go together. This is also a good time to point out that we put wine first – it is, after all the Miami Wine & Food Festival and not the other way around. Over the years we’ve added spirits and just last year craft beers to our mix, and extended the festival not only to four days in April, but to an ongoing celebration throughout the year.

Increasingly, the life of our festival is feeling like life at a winery – a winery gets most of its attention when it makes a release, but the day of release represents an entire year of work in the vineyard and in the winery. It’s much the same for us with similar planting (of ideas), nurturing (of people and events) and careful planning to have a successful “harvest” at the festival in April.

As part of our new website, you will find many ways to keep in touch with us and to keep up to date on all the events under our wine umbrella. We’re just now putting the finishing touches on our second Wine Walk and Shop in Coral Gables (more on this in my next post), and we are also completing all the planning for a great “glass tasting” event with Maximilian Riedel.