Beaver Creek Wine & Spirits’ Grand Tasting
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Beaver Creek Wine & Spirits Festival
This culinary event on Beaver Creek Mountain pairs food and wine with outdoor activities (last season included tasting hikes and 4×4 tours enhanced with port and artisan cheese to sunrise al fresco spin classes and yoga sessions followed by a breakfast feast) and indoor seminars celebrating food-geekdom (with wine, tequila, and cigar tastings held in village restaurants, lounges, and galleries)—culminating with a Grand Tasting where corks are popped and all the culinary stops are pulled out under a circus-size tent staked beside the Centennial Chairlift.
When it is:
Aug 8–111
Where it is:
Beaver Creek Village
What it costs:
$50–$175
Who goes there:
Wine-loving residents of Beaver Creek and Bachelor Gulch, Front Rangers who haunt Denver’s hottest restaurants, seeking a respite from the city’s heat
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If you’re a localvore …
Mirabelle’s Farm to Table Dinner, hosted by master chef Daniel Joly, who plates dish after dish with locally sourced ingredients—some harvested from the geodesic greenhouse just behind the restaurant, a historic pioneer farmstead at the resort’s gatehouse that’s also Joly’s home (Aug 8 & 9, 6–9 p.m., $130)
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Gourmet on Gore
This four-day, outdoor, pay-as-you-go food bazaar with local restaurants serving small plates from tented stalls to strollers sipping and noshing their way around the streets of Vail Village also includes ticketed outdoor excursions, like a guided cruiser ride down Vail Pass, and guided hikes on Vail Mountain to burn calories that will be more than replenished with after-action gourmet fare. Gourmet on Gore dollars (purchased at booths scattered around the venue) are the only cash vendors will accept; to avoid long lines at the currency exchanges, stock up the first day.
When it is:
Aug 30–Sept 1
Where it is:
Gore Creek Promenade and other venues around Vail Village
What it costs:
Varies by vendor; excursions from $20
Who goes there:
Front Rangers looking for one last taste of the high country’s festival season
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The Fall Food & Wine Classic
The summertime cousin of Taste of Vail, a weeklong food and wine festival wherein a horde of Oregon pinot and Colorado lamb devotees from across the valley and around the Front Range besiege Vail Village every spring like a scene from World War Z. The Classic revolves around two days of active foodie adventures (last season’s event included a hike up the Berry Picker, a catered fly-fishing excursion, a cycle down Vail Pass followed by lunch at Matsuhisa) and culminates with a grand tasting at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, pairing small plates prepared by local chefs with wines from the southern hemisphere.Â
When it is:
Sept 21
Where it is:
Vail Village
What it costs:
$65
Who goes there:
Local foodies and gourmands from the Front Range experiencing Taste of Vail withdrawal
More information:
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Published in the Festival Season issue of Vailmag.
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