Quick Guide to the Bardolino Wine Festival

I love festivals and I love wine but I hadn’t heard of the Bardolino Wine Festival until Inghams suggested I try their festival package. I thought it would be the perfect way to spend the last week of my 20s, especially as my friend Chloe was invited too. So off we trundled to Verona Airport to catch the quick 30-minute transfer into Bardolino.

The Bardolino Wine Festival

As soon as we arrived we were given an official wine carrier that went round our neck. This was so we could carry our glasses of wine but keep our hands free. Loved them. It cost €3 and came with the first glass of wine included. From then on we could swap our glass in for a new one with every sample of the 100s of wine varieties the Bardolino region produces. A glass was just €1!

The Bardolino Wine Festival has been going for 86 years and lasts five days. Little tents are set up around Lake Garda stretching for most of the Bardolino lake front showing off the best of the wines made here. Some people were buying huge crates, others bought bottles to sit on the pier and enjoy, but we stuck to as many glasses of different varieties as possible.

I’d normally be all over the reds but I had a really bad throat from the Oktoberfest cold