World of Wine Event, LLC

Festival Dates for 2010...

November 17 - 21, 2010

Friday Night Reserve Tasting & Silent Auction - November 19, 2010
Saturday Grand Event & Chef of the Fest - November 20, 2010

Exhibitor Information

The San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival, November 17-21, is an international showcase of the world's premier wine and spirits producers, chefs and culinary personalities. Fueled by Fast Forward Event Productions, the festival benefits the American Institute of Wine & Food’s culinary arts scholarship program.

Now in its seventh year, the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival has quickly grown into a world-class wine and culinary extravaganza. The week long festival features wine tasting seminars, cooking classes by James Beard award-winning chefs, and an elegant Reserve Tasting & Silent Auction. The festival culminates on Saturday, November 20 at the star-studded Grand Event featuring over 170 wineries pouring 800 wines, 70 of the city’s top fine dining restaurants, gourmet food .

Held on the magnificent San Diego Bay, the Festival's Grand Tasting event is flanked by a backdrop of sailboats and sandy shores, which perfectly set the event's tone. The Festival attracts an affluent consumer with a penchant for quality products and services. Click Here to learn more about our audience demographics.

We invite you and your company to take part in the 2010 Festival and become part of a growing Southern California wine and culinary tradition.

Feel free to contact us directly with any questions you may have on this year's Festival.
2010 Festival Overview

Click on the following links for registration forms:

Winery/Brewery/Spirit Reg Form 2010
Restaurant Reg Form 2010 (Restaurants, please also carefully read the Chef of the Fest competition overview)
Specialty/Gourmet Foods Reg Form 2010
Exhibitor (non-sampling) Culinary Related Products/Services/Art Reg Form 2010

Sponsorship Information
INTERESTED IN EVENT SPONSORSHIP?

The San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival is a destination event attracting high-profile members of the wine and culinary trade as well as affluent consumers throughout the event’s five days. In addition to increasing your company’s profile among this key demographic, a sponsorship with the Festival will also allow your company to:

• Gain cachet by affiliating your brand with a high-end consumer event targeting affluent wine and food enthusiasts
• Broaden the market’s awareness of your products and services
• Reinforce loyalty with current consumer relationships
• Find new, quality customers
• Gain media exposure among food, wine and lifestyle media
• Facilitate a market assessment of your product by sampling
• According to the Cone/Rober Report consumers are more likely to switch to a sponsor’s brand that supports a local event or cause

With so many events and sponsorships available at the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival your marketing opportunities are endless. We look forward to building a custom sponsorship for you to help meet your needs.

Sponsorship Opportunities 2010

Direct Shipping for Wineries

Download this PDF if you would like to ship wine to the festival and have it delivered directly to each venue. We have engaged Tradeshow Transportation Specialists (TTS) to handle direct wine shipments per requests of many wineries. This service is booked directly with TTS.
Tradeshow Transportation Specialists Shipping Form

Chef of the Fest Competition (for Restaurants)
Hosted by The American Culinary Federation

wine_food_festival/ACF_logo The “Chef of the Fest” competition is an action-packed culinary showdown involving all chefs during the Grand Tasting event on November 20. If you are signed up for the Grand Tasting – you automatically will be judged in “Chef of the Fest”. There is nothing extra required of you, other than to let us know that you want the judges to come by your booth during the Grand Event and judge your cuisine that day. Chefs compete and are judged by the American Culinary Federation. Through a tiered judging process, one chef is selected as the best representation of innovative, fresh, flavorful cuisine and crowned “Chef of the Fest” walking away with up to $50,000 in cash & prizes and some serious bragging rights. “Chef of the Fest” entries will be accepted until October 1, 2010 or until space runs out.

Chef of the Fest Rules and Regulations

Exhibitor Setup Information

Exhibitor Set-up Information 2010

WineRave Registration Form

WineRave Registration Form 2010

Program Advertising

Program Advertising 2010

San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival Demographics

Event Statistics
Audience Demographics