After Santa Tecla, Sitges' festive calendar will be celebrating the 62nd Grape Harvest Festival and the 16th Wine Tasting Experience from 29 September to 1 October. More than fifteen wineries will be taking part in this fair, which aims to showcase the wine production of the Garraf and Penedès regions, starting this Friday at the Fragata.

The Grape Harvest Proclamation will kick off the traditional festival this Saturday, 30 September, at 7.30 pm at the Racó de la Calma. This year the historian and coordinator of the Sitges Malvasia Interpretation Centre, Alba Gràcia, will be the Harvest Proclaimer.

The programme will continue on Sunday 1 October with other traditional events such as the pressing of the first must, which is offered in the church of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla, and the 44th Grape Stompers Competition, with a large number of groups from local entities taking part. The weighing of the Pubilla and Hereu de Sitges with its equivalent in bottles of wine, and the singing of havaneres by the Xató Group and "cremat" with brandy, will bring the Grape Harvest Festival 2023 to a close.

The event is organised by the local entity Foment de Sitges and has the collaboration of the Sitges Town Council Tourism Department and the sponsorship of Bodegas Familia Torres.

Wine Tasting Experience

The Wine Tasting Experience will be held from 29 September to 1 October to promote and publicise the products of more than fifteen local exhibitors to the general public and will include the presence of wineries such as Familia Torres, Jean Leon, Hospital de Sitges, Maset, Mas Bertran*, Rovellats*, Parés Baltà*, Colet*, La Xarmada*, Familia Torres*, Mas Tinell*, Pinord*, Torreblanca*, Viladellops*, Torre del Veguer*, Puig-Batet* and Hospital de Sitges*. (*Members at the joint stand of the La Carretera del Vi Association).

For the second consecutive year, the Torres&Earth space, an exhibition of the Torres Foundation dedicated to raising awareness of the effects of climate change, will also be presented.