New Orleans Wine and Food Experience 2013: The Trip to Culinary Bountiful

NEW ORLEANS--There are few events to compare to the annual New Orleans Wine
and Food Experience. Others may boast more celebrity chefs and wider attendance, but few can dispute the fact that the festival, now celebrating its 21st Anniversary Year, occurs in a place where food and drink are celebrated every day of the year in grand style!

That fact was made abundantly clear at the Grand Tasting Sessions and NOWFE Seminars that filled the weekend celebration. Local chefs teamed with wine producers and wine experts from around the world to crteate a unique expression of taste and terroir that firmly cemented New Orleans' reputation as the culinary epicenter of America.

Here now are the images of the people and events that made this year's wine and food experience an epic event.

 Inside the Grand Tasting at Morial Convention Center

 Barefoot Bubbly!

 Kris Kato/ Senior Winemaker , Mark West vineyard, Soledad, California

 Special Guest Thibault Gagey, son of Pierre-Henry Gagey. Presoident of Louis Jadot wines

 Bubbles, Bubbles and more Bubbles-Duval Leroy and Bollinger Champagnes

 Burgundy's Best Kept Secret-Chateau des Jacques Morgon Wine

 The Royal Street Stroll

 The Grand Tasting at Morial Convention Center

 Nearby Louis Armstrong Park and the historic corner of Royal and Dumaine Streets near Napoleon House (offered as refuge  in a never executed escape plot  during his exile to the Isle of Elba in 1814)