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 slated to participate this year. Following are restaurants that have already confirmed for the 21st Annual event:

• Atwater on Gore Creek
• Bistro Fourteen
• Blu's
• Juniper Restaurant
• La Tour Restaurant
• Lord Gore Restaurant
• Ludwig's at the Sonnenalp Resort of Vail
• Marketplace on Meadow Drive
• Restaurant 7one5 at the Vail Marriott
• Restaurant Kelly Liken
• Saddleridge
• Spago
• Terra Bistro
• 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 participate each year.

• Amapola Creek Vineyards and Winery
• Baileyana Winery
• Bergstrom Wines
• Bonded Winery #i Portfolio
• Brassfield Estate Winery
• Canyon Wind Cellars
• Capiaux Cellars
• Carol Shelton Wines
• Champagne Henriot
• Dutton Goldfield Winery
• Estancia Estates
• Flora Springs Winery
• Fog Crest Vineyard
• Foppiano Vineyards
• Gloria Ferrer Champagne Caves
• Graham's and Dow's Ports
• Grgich Hills Estate
• Gundlach Bundschu Winery
• Kilikanoon
• Klinker Brick Winery
• Ladera Vineyards
• Landmark Vineyards
• Louis LaTour
• Louis M. Martini Winery
• Margerum Wine Company
• Milbrandt Vineyards
• Neal Family Vineyards
• Paul Dolan Vineyards
• Premium Port Wines
• The Hess Collection
• Trefethen Family Vineyards
• Truchard Vineyards
• Wild Horse Winery & Vineyards
• ZD Wines

We've Got Sponsors

• Anheuser-Busch InBev
• Colorado Mountain Express
• Fidelity Investments
• Lion Square Lodge
• Moet Hennessy USA
• Montaneros
• Sonnenalp Resort of Vail
• The American Lamb Board
• The Antlers
• The Sebastian Vail
• TricorBraun
• Vail Cascade
• Vail Resorts

We Donate Our Proceeds to Charity

In the past 20 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.