Aspen’s Food and Wine Classic
If you’re missing the mountains after the end of ski season, Road Trips Foodies, the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado, offers a reason to return.
The event (now in its 35th year) assembles a collection of winemakers, spirits experts and celebrated chefs for a weekend of seminars, demonstrations and tastings against a Rocky Mountain backdrop June 16, 17 and 18, 2017.
Who’s coming? Headliners for 2017 include Marcus Samuelsson, Carla Hall, Gail Simmons and Andrew Zimmern.
Center stage is the Grand Tasting Pavilion, with five consumer Grand Tastings and three Private Trade Grand Tastings, wine and food enthusiasts make their way through the tents in downtown Aspen, sampling wines and dishes from around the world. The exhibitors for this year haven’t been announced yet, but the list from 2016 is online.
Information on tickets also is online.
To whet your appetite, here’s a video from the 2014 classic:
(Photo and video courtesy of Aspen Food & Wine Festival)