The Golden Glass
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, Sunday June 8, 2008, 2:30PM - 7:00PM
Welcome!
Come join us Sunday June 8th for the not-to-miss Slow Food SF event of the year!
- The Fifth Annual Golden Glass
- Sunday June 8, 2008, Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion
- Grand Tasting 3:00pm – 7:00pm Press preview 2:00pm
- Get Your Tickets Now
Previously an Italian-only wine event, The Golden Glass 2008 will expand to highlight the most exciting sustainable & terroir expressive wines imported into the Bay Area. Over 100 wineries from New Zealand, Spain, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, and of course, Italy, will be pouring samples. As usual, the wines will be amply complemented by slow food from the Bay Area’s top restaurants and artisans. Live music, educational wine seminars, and a series of winemaker dinners round out the offerings!
The Golden Glass is organized by Slow Food San Francisco and is the team’s most important fundraiser of the year. Proceeds benefit the new Slow Food SF School Garden Project and Slow Food USA ‘Ark of Taste’ program.
Golden Glass will, once again, prove to be a uniquely San Francisco experience! We want you to be a part of this decidedly “SLOW” afternoon and evening savoring all that we enjoy here in the Bay Area.
The Golden Glass wine event, a fundraiser for Slow Food USA, is organized by Slow Food San Francisco, under the direction of Lorenzo Scarpone, convivium leader and founder of the first Slow Food convivium in the United States. Proceeds will benefit the new Slow Food San Francisco School Garden Project and Slow Food USA’s ‘Art of Taste’ program.
Defining ‘Slow’
Good. Clean. Fair. These are the words Slow Food’s founder Carlo Petrini uses to describe his vision of our food system. In the name of productivity, Fast Life has changed our way of being and threatens our environment and our landscapes. Slow Food celebrates developing taste rather than demeaning taste. And what better way to set about this than an international exchange of experiences, knowledge, projects?
As a supporter of Slow Food & the Golden Glass event, we advocate the importance of attending to the needs of the land, respecting traditional knowledge and taste. The wines at The 2008 Golden Glass event celebrate our diverse cultures and communities and showcase their art of careful farming and wine growing. Salute!