Wine festivals

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
פסטיבלי יין
Name (Latin)
Wine festivals
Name (Arabic)
مهرجانات النبيذ
See Also From tracing topical name
Festivals
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q462100
Library of congress: sh2001009789
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Imsand, M. Fête des vignerons Vevey 1999, 1999:p. 5 (For the fifth and final time this century, the Winegrowers Association has had the privilege of offering to Vevey and its region the ambitious project of the Winegrowers Festival.)

Wikipedia description:

Annual wine festivals celebrate viticulture and usually occur after the harvest of the grapes which, in the northern hemisphere, generally falls at the end of September and runs until well into October or later. They are common in most wine regions around the world and are to be considered in the tradition of other harvest festivals. The Egyptian god Osiris was dedicated to wine, but the oldest historically documented wine festivals can be traced back to the Greek celebrations for their wine god Dionysos. The typical ingredients of a wine festival include wine drinking, grape pressing, regional foods, music and, in many areas, religious ritual.

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