The Boston Wine and Food Expo
This February in Boston, Montesquieu International Wine Brokerage was featured as one of the Exhibitors at the Boston Food and Wine Expo. The Boston Expo is the original and largest consumer wine event that takes place in the United States. No other event offers as many wine varietals from around the world as the Boston expo, making the expo a global tour in a glass. The Grand Tasting attracts some of the world's best quality wines and winemakers. Along with featuring wines, like Montesquieu's, the Boston expo also features the nation's greatest chefs who educate wine lovers about the wonders of pairing wine with food by performing tantalizing cooking demonstrations.
Once visitors enter the expo, they receive a complementary wine tasting souvenir glass that they take with them from table to table, as they taste an array of wines. Guests of the Boston Food and Wine Expo learn about the different wine varietals, meet the winemakers who produce them, and choose several wines to sample from the 1,800 different varieties. No other wine event in the United States compares to this event, which features over 450 wineries from around the world to excite the senses. The extensive samples not only make this event the biggest, but the best in the nation, and Montesquieu was thrilled to pour for this considerable event that enhanced its guests' appreciation for wine and its accompaniment with food.
The Boston Expo's Grand Tasting is world famous, not merely for its size, but for the quality national and international wines that are represented. The expo arranges the various countries and regions together, so tasters can easily move among the regions to find the wines they are looking for more quickly or taste the same vintage from nearby wineries side by side to compare the wines and note their differing qualities and characteristics.
Along with their wines, wineries also send their Head Winemakers and Tasting Panels to the Boston Expo to discuss their wines with the guests and answer questions about the winery and the winemaking process. The winemakers offer advice on selecting the perfect vintage and on how to serve it to the fullest advantage of the variety. The expo also features the latest in wine gadgets and products, including gourmet foods and accessories, such as wine racks, corkscrews, stemware, and decanters. Guests can both sample the wines and foods and purchase the featured products during their visit.
In addition to featuring fabulous wines, the Boston Food and Wine Expo also features some of the best American chef's, including Todd English, Rachel Ray, and Tyler Florence to name a few. Todd English is a rising celebrity in the food industry. He has been named the best chef in the Northeast and has been awarded a Restaurateur of the Year award. He owns and manages six restaurants along with other food enterprises, and he will be appearing in Boston's 2008 Food and Wine Expo along with several other culinary artists who will host cooking demonstrations on two stages during the expo.
The 15 celebrity chefs of the 2007 expo cooked crowd-pleasing signature dishes, offering the expo guests tips on creative presentation and food preparation secrets. Guests watched the chefs prepare the foods and then sampled their famous dishes with a wine that matched the nuances of the dish. The expo also had 25 nonstop seminars on topics that educated and entertained wine novices and experts. In addition, the expo featured a Grand Cru Wine Lounge that is set apart from the show floor to create a more intimate and luxurious setting in which the world's top wines can be tasted. Guests could also choose to enjoy a Vintner Dinner, in which food and wine were carefully chosen to optimize and enhance their flavors through their complimentary qualities.
The Boston Food and Wine Expo donated a large portion of its funds to New England communities, and the expo made a positive impact in its community by partitioning the funds raised among several charities and organizations for underprivileged children, people with disabilities, and the homeless. Montesquieu was proud to pour their wines at this expo and to support the New England community along with the Boston Food and Wine Expo.