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:

• Beano's Cabin
• Billy's Island Grill
• Blu's
• Blue Moon Restaurant
• Chap's Grill & Chophouse
• The French Press
• Game Creek Restaurant
• Grouse Mountain Grill
• Juniper Restaurant
• Kelly Liken
• La Tour Restaurant
• Ludwig's
• Ocotillo at Marriott Mountain Lodge & Spa
• Remington's at the Ritz-Carlton
• Rocks Modern Grill
• Saddleridge
• Sapphire Restaurant and Oyster Bar
• Terra Bistro
• Toscanini
• Two Elk
• Wildflower Restaurant
• Wildwood Grill
• Zach's Cabin.

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. Fifty-eight renowned wineries from around the world are participating this year, including (in alphabetical order):

• Alpha Domus
• Amici Cellars
• Calera Wine Co.
• Camelia Cellars
• Carabella Winery
• Chalone Wine Estates
• Cinnabar Vineyards & Winery Columbia Vineyards
• Davis Bynum Winery
• Domaine de la Terre Rouge
• Domaine Serene
• Dutton Goldfield Winery
• Ehlers Estate
• Eola Hills
• Ferngrove
• Flowers Vineyard & Winery Foley Estates
• Fritz Winery
• Garretson Wine Co.
• Germain-Robin
• Gloria Ferrer Champagne Caves
• Grgich Hills
• Hendry
• Huia Vineyards
• Kelham Vineyards
• Landmark Vineyards
• Louis Bernard
• Margerum Wine Company Marimar Estate
• Melville Vineyards
• Napa Wine Co
• Partridge Cellars
• Pride Mountain Vineyards
• Qupe' Wine Cellars
• Renwood Winery
• Rosenblum Cellars
• Rutz Cellars
• Salexis Winery
• Seghesio Vineyards
• Sequoia Grove Vineyards
• St. Francis
• Steele Winery
• Talisman Cellars
• Van Duzer
• Villa Creek
• Villa Maria

We've Got Sponsors

• Avid Online Designs
• Belevedere
• Colorado Mountain Express
• Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa
• Navan
• Portmeirion
• Schott Zwiesel glassware
• Stella Artois
• Subaru
• The American Lamb Board
• The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch
• Vail Resorts
• Wine Spectator and Cigar Aficionado magazines

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