Edit: Okay! Over 175 items photographed and reviewed across 28 Festival Marketplaces. The links to each are numbered below or can be found in alphabetical order here: https://www.easywdw.com/easy/food-and-wine-festival/.
The website is putting together its Marketplace-by-Marketplace reviews of the Food and Wine Festival. So as to not make you wade through 30+ individual posts, I am sticking them here – a category of which you can also access by mousing over the Epcot header above and clicking “Food and Wine Festival.” So if you prefer an alphabetical list, you might check that out. Otherwise I will be linking them here in the order that they appear on the map above.
As usual, the website is harder on this stuff than most others. It is your money after all and with most people choosing seven or eight items to try, most of you will want to try to find the most value for your money. That’s why each item comes with separate Taste and Value ratings and each wine or beer comes with the price per ounce at the Festival compared to the store price. It is worth noting that every review I write is “wrong” in that you will have different tastes and sensibilities and what you are ultimately served will differ from what I was served. But this should be a good starting point.
- Farm Fresh (incorrectly labeled Florida on the map)
- New Zealand (which should actually be number two on the map)
- Australia
- Mexico
- China
- South Korea
- Africa
- Brewer’s Collection
- Germany
- Poland
- Italy
- Hops & Barley
- Japan
- Morocco
- Belgium
- Brazil
- France
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Canada
- Greece
- Patagonia
- Hawaii
- Islands of the Caribbean
- Wine & Dine Studio
- Chocolate Studio
- Greenhosue Guru
- The Chew Collective
THANKS JOSH!! Looking forward to using this as we pick what to try next week!
love the new format!
Great format. Splitting all the stands out helps to focus on what’s there and with loading the photos. Love the nice clear map as well.
The gyro pita bread in Greece was quite stale. The lobster roll was good but I think it was rock lobster. Apple strudel in Germany was big with lots of apples. I liked the Ritzy Leechee drink in China but also liked the thistle gin drink in Scotland. Tipsy Laird was tiny and nothing special. Did the 16 ticket deal which works out to $6 a ticket. Tried to get items above $6 mostly.
Josh, Thank you for all your reviews and reports! They were indispensable when we went to F&W in 2014, and you had put together a pdf of all the offerings with color coded recommendations. It was so easy to know what drinks were worth my money and which were a waste of money and stomach space.
Any chance you’ll put your recommendations in a pdf for 2017? 😉
Love this new format. Makes it really quick to find what you’re looking for . Thanks for all your reviews.
Thanks Josh! Any chance of a PDF version of everything?
Thanks Josh, this is great and I really like the new format. Not only is it easier to go through, but it should be easier for you to update. My only question is if you are planning to do a craft beers review. It wasn’t on the map so I was unsure.
Wow! Thanks for compiling this for us! Super helpful.
Thank you thank you thank you for having an easy to navigate and believe post about F&W.
Will there be reviews for the Crafts Beers & Desserts and Champagne Booths?