We've Got Food

Taste of Vail is a grassroots organization created in 1990 by a group of Vail Valley restaurateurs as a marketing event to showcase the resort’s world-class restaurants. Now the internationally famous community boasts more than 20 Wine Spectator award-winning restaurants — the most of any resort community in the United States. More than three dozen Vail Valley restaurants are participating this year, including:

• Avon Liquor
• Bistro Fourteen
• Blu's
• Game Creek Restaurant
• La Tour Restaurant
• Ludwig's at the Sonnenalp Resort of Vail
• Ocotillo at Marriott Mountain Lodge & Spa
• Restaurant Kelly Liken
• Sapphire Restaurant and Oyster Bar
• Terra Bistro
• Toscanini
• Two Elk
• Wildflower Restaurant
• Wildwood Grill
• ZaccaZa! A Red Sauce Joint

We've Got Wine

Unlike other festivals, the people pouring wine at Taste of Vail are either winemakers or winery owners, encouraging an atmosphere of learning about wine and wine trends from the vintners themselves. Nearly 60 renowned wineries from around the world are participating this year, including (in alphabetical order):

• Adelsheim Vineyard
• Baileyana Winery
• BERGSTROM
• Bodegas Pinuaga
• Bonded Winery #9 Portfolio
• Brassfield Estate Winery
• Calera Wine Co.
• Camelia Cellars
• Canyon Wind Cellars
• Capiaux Cellars
• Casa Ventura Imports, INC.
• Fappiano Vineyards
• Champagne Henriot
• Cliff Lede Vineyards
• David Arthur Vineyards
• Eberle Winery
• Etude
• Finca Los Aljibes
• Foppiano Vineyards
• Gloria Ferrer Champagne Caves
• Graham's and Dow's Ports
• Grgich Hills
• Gundlach Bundschu Winery
• Hanzell Vineyards
• Hook & Ladder Winery
• JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery
• K. Furtado Wines
• Klinker Brick Winery
• La Crema Winery
• Raymond Vineyards
• Ladera Vineyards
• Robert Stemmler Winery
• Landmark Vineyards
• Louis M. Martini Winery
• Maison Louis Latour
• Margerum Wine Company
• Milbrandt Vineyards
• Morgan Winery
• Neal Family Vineyards
• Pahlmeyer
• Paradigm Winery
• Paraiso
• Paul Dolan Vineyards
• Peak Spirits
• PEJU
• Ponzi Vineyards
• Schramsberg
• Silver Oak Cellars
• Simi Winery
• Talisman Cellars
• Talisman Wines
• The Heredad Collection
• The Hess Collection
• Truchard Vineyards
• Twomey Cellars
• Van Duzer
• ZD Wines
• Zmor

We've Got Sponsors

• Colorado Mountain Express
• The American Lamb Board
• The Lodge at Vail
• Vail Resorts

We Donate Our Proceeds to Charity

In the past 15 years, the Taste of Vail festival has contributed more than $300,000 to Vail Valley charities; and in 2005, in conjunction with Ritz-Carlton, the Taste of Vail donated $13,000 to the Hurricane Katrina relief fund. Vail Valley charities to receive donations from Taste of Vail have included:

• ABC Preschool
• Border to Border USA - pediatric AIDS research
• Bravo! Colorado Music Scholarship
• Children’s Hospital
• Cowboy Dreams
• Eagle County Habitat for Humanity
• Eagle County Literacy Program
• Eagle County Victim Services
• Eagle River Youth Coalition
• Food Resource Center of Eagle and Lake Counties
• Gore Range Natural Science School
• Home Health Care
• Humane Society
• Johnson & Wales Culinary University Scholarship
• Literacy Project
• Meals on Wheels
• Red Ribbon Project
• Resource Center
• Shaw Cancer Center
• Vail Mountain Rescue
• Vail Valley Home Health Care & Mountain Hospital
• Vail Valley Jazz Foundation
• Vail Valley Medical Center
• Youth Foundation

We've Got Other Fun Facts

• As many as 5,000 attendees, volunteers and journalists are expected to attend this year.
• Elevation of the Mountaintop Picnic: 10,350 feet above sea level.
• Six thousand wine glasses, supplied by Schott-Zwiesel glassware