1996 – A festival begins with an auction
This is the 25th anniversary year of VeritageMiami – a quarter century of sharing great wines for a great cause, helping our fellow citizens here ...
1998 – The festival comes together
We started tracing the history of what today is called VeritageMiami with the introduction of two auctions in 1996 and 1997, both called The Great ...
1999 – Building a bigger festival
Shortly after the 1998 wine festival weekend concluded, an official announcement was made that The Biltmore International Wine Festival and the Great South Florida Fine ...
The art of wine
Since its beginnings at the turn of the 20th century, Miami (by which I mean the greater Miami area) has been a youthful city obsessed ...
2003 – Onward and outward
By 2003, now in its eighth year*, The Biltmore International Wine Festival was bursting at its seams. There were so many lots at the live ...
2007 – Going it (sort of) alone
Following the successful close of the Miami Wine and Food Festival in spring 2006, the event’s success was exhausting those who staged it. The reality ...
Hunger pangs, the chefs (and recipes) of VeritageMiami, Pt. 1
In addition to its mission to support the charitable efforts of United Way of Miami-Dade, our wine and food festival is about, well, wine and ...
2010 – Giving the event an English accent
We have had a single vision from the very beginning of this event – to raise funds for and awareness of the mission of United ...
