The year in funk.
64 moments the taste tribe travels for — natural wine fairs from RAW WINE to La Dive Bouteille, plus the film festivals, fashion weeks, art fairs, and sporting fortnights that fill the world's funkiest cities. Month by month, with where to drink when you land.
January
La Dive Bouteille
The legendary Loire natural wine fair in the tufa caves of Saumur, on the Sunday and Monday that open Loire wine week. The 26th edition ran 1–2 February 2026; the 2027 dates aren't announced yet (expected 31 Jan–1 Feb).
Saumur
Les Anonymes
One of the Loire-week off salons in Angers: natural growers pouring on the Dive Bouteille weekend. The 2026 edition was 31 Jan–1 Feb; 2027 dates aren't announced yet.
Angers
Millésime Bio
The world's largest organic wine fair, held annually in Montpellier. Over 1,400 exhibitors from 25+ countries. A trade and public event showcasing certified organic wines.
Montpellier
VinNatur NYC
The Italian VinNatur association's New York tasting: natural growers from Italy and beyond in Greenpoint. Sunday open to all; Monday 11 January reserved for trade. Tickets go on sale in the fall via Eventbrite.
New York City
Where to drink →La Dive week (Loire salons)
The famous February pilgrimage: La Dive Bouteille and the satellite salons — the natural wine world's annual gathering in the Loire.
Saumur & Angers
Sundance Film Festival
Indie film's big week — and the crowd that fills natural wine bars from Salt Lake to LA on the way home.
Park City
February
RAW Wine Paris
RAW Wine in the natural wine capital — the fair's Paris edition lands mid-February, in the thick of the winter salon season.
Paris
Where to drink →simplesmente... Vinho
Porto's independent growers' fair at the Alfândega, running alongside the big Essência do Vinho. The 2026 edition was 27 Feb–1 Mar; it returns in 2027 (dates not yet announced).
Porto
Where to drink →Vella Terra Barcelona
The 13th Barcelona edition of Spain's natural wine fair, in Poblenou, 12:00 to 20:00.
Barcelona
Where to drink →VinoTours
An organic and biodynamic salon near Tours — around twenty growers from across France. Not strictly natural, but the Loire crowd shows up.
Tours
La Dive week (Loire salons)
The famous February pilgrimage: La Dive Bouteille and the satellite salons — the natural wine world's annual gathering in the Loire.
Saumur & Angers
Berlinale
Europe's big winter film festival, in a city where the wine bars are as raw as the programming.
Berlin
Where to drink →Milan Fashion Week
Fashion's Milan weeks, with VinNatur's orbit and Italy's natural scene an aperitivo away.
Milan
New York Fashion Week
The industry descends on the city where Brooklyn set the natural wine bar standard.
New York
Where to drink →Zona Maco
Latin America's biggest art fair, in the fastest-rising natural wine city on the map.
Mexico City
Where to drink →Super Bowl
The rotating host city gets a week of the whole country's attention — and its bars get the overflow.
United States (rotates)
March
SXSW
Film, music, and tech collide in Austin — and the taste crowd that comes with them.
Austin
The Oscars
Awards week floods LA with exactly the crowd that drinks skin contact after the after-party.
Los Angeles
Where to drink →Paris Fashion Week
Twice a year the world's taste industry lands in the world's natural wine capital. Belleville books out.
Paris
Where to drink →April
Vini Circus
Brittany's natural wine festival — producers, music and a big-top spirit in a village hall outside Rennes. Fun, irreverent, and packed with winemakers who don't take themselves too seriously.
Guipel (near Rennes)
VinNatur Tasting
The VinNatur association's big spring tasting, now at the Margraf show-room in Gambellara (not Villa Favorita since 2019): 150+ natural growers from Italy and across Europe. The 2026 edition ran 11–13 April; 2027 dates aren't announced yet.
Gambellara
Milan Design Week (Salone del Mobile)
The design world's annual pilgrimage — a week when every studio, showroom, and wine bar in Milan overflows.
Milan
Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
Coachella
The desert festival that routes the culture crowd through LA on both ends.
Indio / Los Angeles
Where to drink →May
Georgian New Wine Festival
The origin country opens its qvevris — 8,000 vintages of tradition, one festival.
Tbilisi
Where to drink →Cannes Film Festival
The Croisette by day, the Riviera's caves à vin by night — the funk follows the film industry south.
Cannes
Met Gala
Fashion's biggest night pulls the industry to New York — the after-afters end up in natural wine bars.
New York
Where to drink →Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
F1 Miami Grand Prix
F1's American glamour stop — a weekend that fills Miami's design district and its wine bars.
Miami
Monaco Grand Prix
F1's glamour weekend, back-to-back with Cannes — the Riviera's biggest fortnight of the year.
Monaco
Roland-Garros
Two weeks of clay-court tennis in the natural wine capital. Book the caves early.
Paris
Where to drink →June
Vivent les Vins Libres
Marseille's celebration of free wines — a Sunday of pop-ups across the city's bars and restaurants, then a Monday professional salon at Les Grandes Tables de la Friche. Radical winemaking, southern hospitality.
Marseille
Where to drink →Art Basel
The art market's main event, with the Jura's natural wine heartland just across the border.
Basel
Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
Glastonbury
Britain's giant festival week — London empties into Somerset and celebrates its return after.
Somerset / London
Where to drink →Roland-Garros
Two weeks of clay-court tennis in the natural wine capital. Book the caves early.
Paris
Where to drink →Wimbledon
The fortnight London hosts the world — P. Franco to Bright, the wine list is the second draw.
London
Where to drink →July
Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
Wimbledon
The fortnight London hosts the world — P. Franco to Bright, the wine list is the second draw.
London
Where to drink →August
Venice Film Festival
The Lido's red carpet, then bacari and orange wine from Friuli a vaporetto ride away.
Venice
Copenhagen Fashion Week
Scandi fashion in the city where the entire restaurant scene is natural by default.
Copenhagen
Where to drink →Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
US Open (tennis)
Queens by day, Brooklyn's natural wine bars by night.
New York
Where to drink →September
Harvest season
The vineyards work, the cellars open, and visiting producers becomes the trip itself.
Everywhere north
Venice Film Festival
The Lido's red carpet, then bacari and orange wine from Friuli a vaporetto ride away.
Venice
Milan Fashion Week
Fashion's Milan weeks, with VinNatur's orbit and Italy's natural scene an aperitivo away.
Milan
New York Fashion Week
The industry descends on the city where Brooklyn set the natural wine bar standard.
New York
Where to drink →Paris Fashion Week
Twice a year the world's taste industry lands in the world's natural wine capital. Belleville books out.
Paris
Where to drink →Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
US Open (tennis)
Queens by day, Brooklyn's natural wine bars by night.
New York
Where to drink →October
A Contre Courant
Alsace's against-the-current salon: biodynamic and natural growers from the Rhine valley and beyond, in the village of Ergersheim.
Ergersheim
Brut(es) + Ferments
A natural wine and fermentation salon at the Motoco arts site in Mulhouse, open to the public and to trade.
Mulhouse
Dynamique du Raisin
Languedoc's natural wine Sunday in Paulhan — living wines from the hills between Béziers and Montpellier.
Paulhan
Karakterre New York
Karakterre 19: the festival of Central and Eastern European natural wine comes to Brooklyn for a day (1pm to 6:30pm): Austrian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Czech, Georgian and Balkan growers pouring alongside North American colleagues. Two weeks before RAW WINE New York.
New York City
Where to drink →Le Nez dans le Ballon
Nose in the glass, in the Tarn. A small-town natural wine weekend in Lautrec with growers from the South-West.
Lautrec
Pop! Festival du Vin Vivant en Musique
Fourth edition of a natural wine and music festival at Paloma in Nîmes: about fifty growers from France and Catalonia (€15 Sunday, €10 Monday, €20 both days).
Nîmes
Salon Vins d'Azur
A one-day natural wine salon in Marseille — southern growers, sea air, and the kind of glou-glou that goes with October in the Med.
Marseille
Where to drink →Vella Terra
Spain's natural wine fair lands in Madrid — Iberian growers first, then the rest of Europe. Feria Vella Terra's Madrid edition.
Madrid
Where to drink →VinNatur Milano (Part 1)
VinNatur's autumn Milan tasting: natural growers pouring at Tempio del Futuro Perduto. Trade from 11am, public from 1pm.
Milan
Where to drink →Harvest season
The vineyards work, the cellars open, and visiting producers becomes the trip itself.
Everywhere north
Art Basel Paris
The Grand Palais fills with collectors; the 11th arrondissement fills with them after.
Paris
Where to drink →Frieze London
Regent's Park tents by day, Hackney wine bars by night.
London
Where to drink →Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
November
Augusta è fiera del vino
A natural wine fair in Turin's Bunker cultural space, Sunday and Monday, 11am to 6pm.
Turin
Where to drink →BioSaveurs
Lausanne's organic and natural wine and food salon — Swiss and Alpine growers over two days on the lake.
Lausanne
Festival Vin Nature Suisse
The sixth Swiss natural wine festival — a single Monday in Lausanne with the country's low-intervention growers pouring side by side.
Lausanne
Les Anges Vins
A three-day natural wine salon in the Layon, in the village hall of Faye d'Anjou, 10am to 7pm.
Faye d'Anjou
Les Pétavins Envahissent Lille
The Pétavins take over Lille for a day: a pét-nat-heavy natural wine salon (Monday, 9am to 5pm, mostly trade).
Lille
Where to drink →Natural Wine Love Vol.07
A free, three-day outdoor natural wine market run by the Farmers Market Association in the United Nations University courtyard: winemakers, importers and food stalls, 11am to 5pm each day.
Tokyo
Where to drink →RAW Wine Berlin
RAW Wine's Berlin edition brings together winemakers from across Europe and beyond. Founded by Isabelle Legeron MW.
Berlin
Where to drink →RAW Wine Montreal
RAW Wine's Montreal edition — the week after New York, with many of the same producers crossing the border. Two days of natural, organic and biodynamic tasting.
Montreal
Where to drink →RAW Wine New York
New York's premier natural wine fair. Producers from around the world gather for two days of tasting and discovery.
New York City
Where to drink →Salón Vinos Naturales Madrid
The Asociación de Productores de Vinos Naturales (PVN) salon at Madrid's railway museum, 10:00 to 18:00.
Madrid
Where to drink →Vini di Vignaioli
The historic Italian natural wine fair (born in Fornovo) moves to Piacenza for 2026: two days of small growers from Italy and beyond. Tickets on sale from October.
Piacenza
VinNatur Milano (Part 2)
The second of VinNatur's two autumn Milan tastings, with a different line-up of growers. Trade from 11am, public from 1pm.
Milan
Where to drink →Beaujolais Nouveau Day
The original glou-glou holiday — the year's new Gamay lands in every natural wine bar on earth the same night.
Worldwide
Venice Biennale
Seven months of art pilgrimage — and northern Italy's amber wines within reach the whole time.
Venice
F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Night racing on the Strip, and a travel spike that spills into LA either side of the weekend.
Las Vegas
December
Les 10 Vins Cochons
Ten growers, one Saturday, a village in the Auvergne. The name is a pun and the wines are serious.
Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle
Art Basel Miami Beach
America's art week — and a natural wine scene that's grown up around it.
Miami
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