When do you attach a wine glass to lanyard and wear it around your neck? Answer: At the Annual Marlborough Wine and Food Festival.
Blenheim is the heart of New Zealand’s Marlborough wine region. Imagine 60 tents for wineries, 12 restaurants with food pairings, 6 bands providing a continuous, live music atmosphere and one park. All of this is combined with a bus service to reduce the drinking and driving component and you have all the ingredients of a great day.
A wine festival offers a convenient way to taste a lot of different wine in one place, and to get to know the people who are involved with winemaking. It’s an experience that you can only approximate when you visit a wine region, because you’ll either have to drive to wineries, or be driven around — an activity that certainly has its charms, but cuts down on the amount of wine you can physically consume on an hour-by-hour basis.
The Marlborough wine and food festival provided wine seminars, educational demonstrations and delicious tastings. The event includes nationally-renowned chefs, regional restaurateurs, entertaining seminars from award-winning local and international chefs. We were inspired to find new ways to cook our Alaska salmon!
