Portugal Food Festivals & Shows, Wine Fairs, Food Events, Exhibitions, Fairs, Expos

2014 PORTUGAL 2014
Exhibitions, Shows & Expos, Festivals
(See also: 2013 - 2012 - 2011)

March 27-30, 2014  XVI World Wine Masters Challenge
Lisbon, Portugal

June 26-29, 2014  World Beer Challenge 2014 - IV International Brewery Awards
Lisbon, Portugal

2015 PORTUGAL 2015
Exhibitions, Shows & Expos, Festivals

April 8-11, 2015  World Food Travel Summit & Expo
Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal
The World Food Travel Summit is the most important event for food and drink tourism professionals world-wide. It is a must-see, must-attend event for thought leaders, strategists, marketers, media and product developers in food, drink, travel and hospitality. The Summit combines dramatic and impactful celebration of the host destination’s cuisine, inspirational talks by some of the world’s top food and drink tourism thought leaders, and unparalleled networking opportunities featuring the Association’s own SavorSearch appointment system to match buyers and sellers of food tourism products.

2013 PORTUGAL 2013
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March 25-31, 2013  Wine Masters Challenge
Estoril, Portugal
The purpose of this initiative is to award Oenologists who classified the best wines and evaluate the 7.000 Wine-producing Regions and Sub-regions, from the 55 countries. For the period of one week, two committees of renowned experts, totalling 600, will examine the best Wines, Oenologists and Wine-producing Regions that will compete to reach the top spot in the world ranking.

April 14-17, 2013  Alimentaria & Horexpo Lisboa 2013
Lisbon, Portugal
International Food, Hospitality and Technology for the Food and Drinks Industry Exhibition.

July 24-28, 2013  Spirits of the World 2013
Lisbon, Portugal
III Estoril International Spirits Awards 2013

October 24-27, 2013  Mineral Water Challenge
Lisbon, Portugal
When coming up with the idea of creating a World challenge for mineral waters, named 'Mineral Water Challenge – 2nd International Mineral Water Awards 2013', to be carried out every year, market surveys were assessed and we noticed a weak or even non-existing presence of this type of contests.  So, we gathered a team of professionals that would be up to this challenge and therefore we can now state that we will have the best experts and first line personalities as jurors, coming from 26 countries, in a total of 120 elements.

November 21-24, 2013  II Estoril Organic Wine Contest
Lisbon, Portugal
By holding the wine contest titled 'Estoril Organic Wine Contest 2013' for the second time in Portugal with international competitors, we aim at highlighting the still unknown organic wines to the great public, both in Portugal and abroad.   As such, we have gathered a professional technical team comprised of experts in the area of organic wines who have accepted this challenge and we can state that the jury includes the best experts and individualities, originating from 11 countries and totalling 200 elements.

2012 PORTUGAL 2012
Exhibitions, Shows & Expos, Festivals

January 12-22, 2012  Vila Joya's Tribute to Claudia - Gourmet Food Festival
Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal
The 6th annual event will bring together many Michelin-starred and award-winning chefs from the four corners of the globe. Each night one of the guest chefs takes over Vila Joya's kitchen with his or her own team, and produces an extraordinary menu.

2011 PORTUGAL 2011
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July ?, 2011  Festival of the Trays - Tomar, Portugal
Tomar Festival of the Trays, "Festa dos Tabuleiros", also known as Festival of the Holy Spirit, "Festa do Divino Espírito Santo", is held in Tomar every 4 years. This Festival can be traced back to the 16th century in a five day Fair. Streets are decorated with paper roses and there is music as well.  It is a unique event with a procession where young women carry on her head a tray with 30 loaves. The women dress in white whereas the men.