//Our 25-year history

Our 25-year history

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 ...

By | 2021-02-18T16:34:58-05:00 February 10, 2021|

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 ...

By | 2021-02-18T15:49:40-05:00 February 18, 2021|

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 ...

By | 2021-02-25T20:20:22-05:00 February 25, 2021|

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 ...

By | 2021-03-04T13:38:30-05:00 March 3, 2021|

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 ...

By | 2021-03-11T23:11:57-05:00 March 11, 2021|

2013 – Where’s the wine?

Along this historical journey, you have read about us as The Great South Florida Fine Wine Auction, The Biltmore International Wine Festival at Coral Gables, ...

By | 2021-04-22T10:59:17-04:00 April 21, 2021|

2014 – Crush for a cause

I noted last week that we, at the now re-christened VeritageMiami, got a real showbiz shot in the arm when Richard Fain became our festival ...

By | 2021-05-24T18:21:31-04:00 April 30, 2021|