Welcome to the SoBeFest. Tell us about it.

     Welcome to South Miami Beach, where it's not snowing, as you may have noticed, and your biggest problem is to chose among those 350 wines, spirits, sakes, beers, coffees, teas and fancy mineral waters waiting for you.

     Today, if you got tickets on time, you get to wine and dine with Rachael Ray, Jamie Oliver, Alice Waters, Giada de Laurentiis and share dessert with Emeril Lagasse. Or taste a vertical of Pomerol wines, sipping Bordeaux reds from 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005.

     We want to hear about it. Tell us what you liked and what you didn't. See if you can out-purple wine author Robert Parker in describing that Super Tuscan Italian wine you've been looking forward to.

     Tell us what went wrong. Trouble getting tickets? Tasting tents too hot? Wines not good enough?

     E-mail your comments to Wine@MiamiHerald.com and we will post them here for all to see.

     And don't forget the mantra of the prudent multiple-wine taster.

     Spit.