Uncorked Wine Festivals - Cleveland

First time attending the Uncorked Wine Festival. It was a great event, held in the Great Lakes Science Center. Since there were no kids at the event, adults were drinking wine and playing with the science exhibits. It turned into one big party and like a playground for adults, which coming out of COVID, it was fun to see people that happy coming together.In the back, boats were also docked and hanging out so the location was pretty excellent. There were many vendors, a lot from California, Washington and Oregon. There were a few from Italy and the boarder regions of France, however surprised to see that there were not more. Also there were no South American wines and very few Australian ones. We talked to a lot of the vendors and they mentioned it is because the USA market has a taste for more sweeter wines. Although the event was fun and great to interact with the vendors, my husband and I prefer the dryer reds and less sweet wines. Seems that if that's what you are primarily looking for, may not be the right event for you, but we were able to find some good Pino Noirs from Washington and Oregon. Maybe in future events they can open it up to more diverse wines / sparkling wines.

if you are new to wine drinking or want to taste lots of inexpensive supermarket wines then this is your festival. For 70$ you get to be pushed and shoved in a crowed to get into the VIP entry. Then you get a plastic cup and no water and line up to get 2 small sips of wine from each winery. Few wineries had people working that knew about wine. Most people were hired by an agency as a brand rep for the night to pour wine. They hadn't been to the wineries and knew nothing more than what they learned from watching a video. It was fun to meet people and chat but the wine was not worth the event entry price. It should have been much nicer for the price - I hope it was a fund raiser for the museum....