Dar to celebrate wine week festival next month -

By Staff Reporter

THE sixth edition of the country’s excelling wine
festival, the Dar es Salaam Wine Week Festival (DWWF), has been drafted to take
place from 3rd of February 2024, the organisers confirmed.

The annually staged week-long leisure-economic gala
to be celebrated at the Dar es Salaam’s famous
Serena Hotel creates a prestigious platform for attracting processors,
stakeholders and enthusiasts of the alcoholic beverage from grape skins under
the same roof.

Apart from providing the mesmerising and everlasting
leisure through an array of events, such as free wine tastings, pairings, and
interactive sessions, the event organised by Tamu, the Dar es Salaam- based
dynamic event planning and hosting company, plays meaningful role to help
heightening performance of the wine making sector in Tanzania.

Giving an exclusive interview to this media platform over
the festival, Kelly Simon, the founder of the company behind the event said
they have been organising the festival since 2015, and unveiled that the
outcomes have always been rewarding.

” The Wine Week Festival is a week-long
extravaganza that caters to wine connoisseurs and enthusiasts alike, through tastings, pairings, and interactive
sessions, we have decided to organise it so as to create a platform for the
appreciation of the art of winemaking in Tanzania, ” Kelly expounded.

He added, the event is part to supplement efforts by
the government to spur performance of grapes and wine breeding sub- sectors.

“Staging of this festival is completely
embedded into the patriotic vision of promoting the wine brewing industry in
the country, but also to inspire and instil a wine drinking spirit among local
alcohol lovers,” he expressed.

And Kelly observed, the festival has further been
tailored to help expose and advertise the good taste and aroma of the finest
wine varieties from Tanzania overseas.

“Since its inception in 2015, the festival has
been receiving a record number of wine lovers, from within and outside the
country, ” he informed.

The envisaged crowd-pulled event, according to
Kairuki, will feature assorted best culinary services to quench the stomach’s
thirst of the festival attendees while watering their through with best
fermented wines.

“I am appealing to the local wine enthusiasts,
processors and other stakeholders to turn out in multitude and attend the
festival which aims to place Tanzania’s wine sector into new heights, ” he
urged.

Kelly extended sincere gratitude to the government
and the local wine stakeholders for their always time-heart support towards
organisation of the festival.

“At Tamu Tanzania, our mission is to create
unforgettable experiences that resonate with our clients and attendees. Through
meticulous planning, creative concepts, and seamless execution, we strive to
set new benchmarks in the event industry, making every occasion a moment to
remember,” he detailed.

Endowed with a favourable climate to grow varieties
of wine grapes in two seasons in a year, Tanzania is currently standing second
after South Africa for brewing the best wines in the continent.

Being the country’s grapes and wine hub, Dodoma
region is currently with at least three major wine factories- Aliko Vintage Co.
Ltd, Central Tanganyika Wine Company (CETAWICO), and Dane Holding Company (DHC),
and more than five other small scale plants scattered at different locations
under ownership of farmers associations.

Although still with a limited number of factories,
Tanzania is making crucial strides in bottling numerous wines that continues to
conquer the world market, basically due to uniqueness in taste and aroma. Among
top wine varieties produced in Tanzania include Dompo, Image, , Presidential
wine, Overmeer, Altar, Sharye and Dane NK Super wine.