People from all over the world travel to Miami Beach every year to enjoy the country’s largest wine and food festival. The South Beach wine and food festival is an event of four days exhibiting the world’s popular spirits and wine producers, culinary personalities and chefs. This festival is hosted by Florida International University and Southern Wine and Spirits of Florida.

The festival was started in the year 1997 at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus. At that time it was a single day occasion known as “Florida Extravaganza”.Later in 2001, it was shifted to South Beach and was renamed as the South Beach Wine and Food festival.