Wine Spectator’s New York Wine Experience Welcomes Thousands, Announces Plans To Stay In Big Apple
October 28, 2013More than 2,000 wine lovers, winemakers and industry professionals filed into two packed ballrooms at New York’s Marriott Marquis in Times Square Thursday night for the first of two nights of Grand Tastings that kicked off the 33rd Wine Spectator Wine Experience, a three-day event featuring winemaker seminars, seated lunches with wine pairings and the black-tie Grand Award Banquet Saturday night featuring a performance by John Legend. The walk-around tasting, which sold out weeks in advance, featured 264 top wineries from around the world, all pouring wines rated 90 points or higher by Wine Spectator’s editors. For Wine Spectator’s recap of the sold-out festivities, click here.
Meanwhile, as Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin Shanken explained to a ballroom audience of more than 1,000 wine lovers on the opening morning of the gathering, The Wine Experience is putting down roots in the Big Apple for the foreseeable future. In previous years, the Wine Experience has alternated annually between New York and other cities around the country. But this year’s New York event drew overwhelming interest. So, for at least the next five Octobers, the great wines of the world will continue to come through New York.
“What we have proven is that the center of the wine world is right here,” said Shanken. “People want to come to New York.”
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