The funk calendar
The year in funk.
66+ 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
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
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
La Dive Bouteille
The legendary Loire Valley natural wine fair held in the troglodyte caves of Saumur. A pilgrimage for serious natural wine lovers — expect funky, raw, and zero-zero wines. The 26th edition ran February 1–2, 2026; the 27th is expected the first weekend of February 2027 (dates TBC).
Saumur
Where to drink →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 →Salon des Vins Anonymes
A blind tasting concept fair in Paris where wines are poured anonymously — no labels, no bias. Discover wines purely on taste. One of the most unique fair concepts in the natural wine world.
Paris
Where to drink →Vini Circus
A travelling natural wine circus through French cities. Fun, irreverent, and packed with winemakers who don't take themselves too seriously.
Lyon
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
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
Caractère
A curated Parisian wine fair focused on artisan winemakers with character. Intimate tastings, winemaker dinners, and a strong emphasis on terroir-driven wines.
Paris
Where to drink →The Other Right
Melbourne's indie natural wine fair. Small producers, emerging winemakers, and a focus on what's new and exciting in Australian natural wine.
Melbourne
Where to drink →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
Natural Wine Fair Tokyo
Tokyo's growing natural wine scene comes together for a major tasting event. Japanese and international producers, plus sake crossover tastings.
Tokyo
Where to drink →VinNatur
Italy's flagship natural wine fair in the stunning Villa Favorita. Over 200 producers from Italy and across Europe, with a strong focus on Italian natural winemaking.
Verona
Where to drink →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
Real Wine Fair
London's long-running celebration of real wine. Producers who farm sustainably and make wine with minimal intervention. Masterclasses and open tastings.
London
Where to drink →Under the Radar
Copenhagen's underground natural wine fair. Scandinavian and European producers share space in a raw industrial setting. Nordic cuisine pairings and late-night after-parties.
Copenhagen
Where to drink →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
Festivin
A Parisian festival dedicated to natural wine and good times. Live music, street food, and dozens of producers pouring in an open-air setting.
Paris
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
Rawfair Copenhagen
A satellite edition of the RAW Wine family, bringing natural wine discovery to the Danish capital with Nordic and international producers.
Copenhagen
Where to drink →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
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
Les Affranchis
Beaune's renegade wine fair, running alongside the more traditional Burgundy tastings. Natural vignerons who refuse to play by the rules — expect skin contact, pét-nat, and zero-zero.
Beaune
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 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 →Rootstock Sydney
Australia's largest celebration of natural, organic, and biodynamic wine. Over 100 producers from Australia and around the world, plus talks, panels, and tastings.
Sydney
Where to drink →Vini di Vignaioli
A gathering of artisan Italian winemakers in the hills of Emilia-Romagna. Intimate producer-led tastings in a beautiful rural setting.
Fornovo di Taro
Where to drink →Vivent les Vins Libres
Toulouse's celebration of free wines — producers who reject convention and embrace living wines. Warm southern French hospitality meets radical winemaking.
Toulouse
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
Art Basel Miami Beach
America's art week — and a natural wine scene that's grown up around it.
Miami
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