WEEKENDER | Vancouver International Wine Festival 2025

"The wine world is here."

Waterfront—(March 1, 2025) Once again, the city welcomed the wine world during the 46th annual Vancouver International Wine Festival for its usual eight days of end-of-winter, grape-soaked fun. Thousands of VIWF attendees wined and dined themselves at countless seminars, minglers, pairing meals, and signature tastings.



This year's spotlight winemaking region focused on West Coast U.S. Wines, featuring fifty American wineries from all over California, Oregon, and Washington State. They showcased their wares at two dozen special events joined by seventy-one other wineries from fourteen different nations.

California Wines

As usual, the anchor festival event of "the largest wine festival in the Americas" were the four International Festival Tasting Room sessions hosted inside the Vancouver Convention Centre West ballroom overlooking the downtown's stunning Waterfront while seven hundred wines and varietals from around the world were tasted by hundreds of patrons.



VIWF 2025 by the numbers:

• 19,000 admissions
• 121 wineries from 15 countries
• 43 events (31 public and 12 trade-only) at 24 venues
• 25 participating restaurants, hotels, and caterers
• 1,000 wines including:
• 700 wines in the Tasting Room
• 300 wines at special events (dinners, seminars, etc.)
• 27,000 bottles poured and/or purchased
• Tasting Room size: 53,000 square feet

VIWF's principal mandates include:

• advancing wine enjoyment, engagement, and education for both consumers and trade;
• serve as a premier marketing opportunity for the wine industry;
• and raising funds for local performing arts organizations.

The festival has raised nearly $10.2 million for the performing arts industry since its inception in 1979 and $2.2 million for the annual summer Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival since 2012.


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