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The Boston Wine Festival and the Northeast Motorcycle Expo
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Show business I Oenophiliacs begin drooling at the mere mention of the Boston Wine Festival, the nation’s largest such shindig, which offers up a chance to sample nearly 2000 wines from more than 400 wineries around the world. The 13th annual edition shows up at the World Trade Center and the adjacent Seaport Hotel January 31 and February 1, offering dozens of workshops on the half-hour, pricy vintner dinners for the choosy, and a gaggle of live-on-stage celebrity chefs for the star-struck, including appearances by local foodie gods Todd English, Ming Tsai, Ken Oringer, Barbara Lynch, and PBS’s Leslie Sbrocco. Both the WTC and the Seaport are at 200 Seaport Boulevard, off Northern Avenue on the waterfront; hours are 1 to 5 p.m. both days. If you buy tickets before January 23, they’ll set you back $60 for one day and $92 for both. Call (877) 946-3976 or visit www.wine-expos.com. Show business II There will be nothing even remotely resembling a wine tasting at the fifth annual Northeast Motorcycle Expo, and anyone displaying a daintily raised pinky is apt to get said digit broken in several places. What you will find, however, are the latest and loudest in mean machines, the Texas Bikini Team, and a visit from Jean Davidson, granddaughter of Harley-Davidson founder Walter Davidson and author of the tome Growing Up Harley-Davidson (Voyageur Press). The show runs January 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and January 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Shriner’s Auditorium, Exit 39 off Route 93 in Wilmington. If you miss that one, there’s another coming to the World Trade Center in Boston on the weekend of January 24 and 25, with all of the above plus the stars of the Discovery Channel’s custom-detailing reality show The Great Biker Build-Off. Tickets to both shows are $13; call (877) 245-3976 or visit www.nemotorcycleexpo.com.
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