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Come celebrate with us !
A Taste of Redwood Valley invites old friends and new to join us for our three annual festivals in northern California's Mendocino County. Most of our wineries are too small to keep regular tasting room hours, so this is a rare opportunity to taste the wines and catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse of our small producers. Redwood Valley is in Mendocino County, a little more than two hours from both San Francisco and I-5. |
We Have 3
Annual Festivals
Sat, Feb. 13, 2010 Fri-Sun, June 18-20, 2010 Sat & Sun, Nov. 20-21, 2010 |
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A Taste of Redwood Valley invites you
to its 19th annual Father's Day weekend taste fest Friday - Dinner begins at 6 pm A Taste of Redwood Valley, the festival that put one of California’s oldest viticultural areas on the map nineteen years ago, will once again open its bottles and barrels to wine lovers this Father's Day weekend, June 18-20. The festivities will begin on Friday evening with the legendary Winemaker's Dinner and will continue throughout the weekend with delicious food, barrel-tasting, live music, fine art, and artisanal crafts. Dinner will follow with a tasty spring green salad, tender fillet mignon with a red wine/mushroom reduction sauce, pesto cream lasagna (vegetarian), and garden vegetables. Scrumptious dessert of Creole bread pudding with warm brandy sauce will be served along with brandy, port and muscat canelli, and live music will sweeten the air. Between 11 and 5 on Saturday and Sunday, June 19 and 20, visitors will meander through the green back roads of Redwood Valley visiting nine wineries and one world-class distillery while enjoying tastes of Redwood Valley's deep-flavored wines. Old barns, luscious gardens, and secluded ponds will compete for sensory attention with red varieties of Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangiovese, Zinfandel and Petite Sirah as well as homemade bread, fresh goat cheese, and chocolate-covered strawberries. Guests will encounter an antique cognac still that produces the best brandy in the world, a rustic, home-built winery where Mendocino County's first organic and biodynamic wines were produced, and an architecturally exquisite tasting room. The price of admission to the entire festival, from Friday evening's Winemaker's Dinner to the last drop on Sunday afternoon at 5 is $75 per person. The cost of the Winemaker's Dinner alone is $55 per person, and the ticket for two days of wine-tasting is $25 per person. Just check in at any one of the nine wineries or distillery and receive a map and a complimentary logo-engraved glass. You may also sign up to win one of the lavish baskets of wine and delicacies created by each winery. To reach Redwood Valley take Hwy. 101 just north of Ukiah to the West Road exit (#557). For more information or lodging ideas please call (707) 485-0322 or click here. We promote responsible hospitality: please bring a designated driver. The wineries participating in the festival are: Frey Vineyards, Oster Wine Cellars, Cole Bailey, Giuseppe Wines/Neese Vineyards, Graziano Family of Wines, Barra of Mendocino, Lolonis/Ladybug Winery, Oracle Oaks Winery, and Silversmith Vineyards. The distillery, which will be pouring brandy and other handcrafted spirits, is Germain-Robin/Craft Distillers.
Redwood Valley is a beautiful 2-hour drive from both the San Francisco Bay Area and I-5. It is just off Hwy.101 between Ukiah and Willits. Take Hwy 101 north of Ukiah to West Road (exit #557), show up at any participating winery, and get a map to all the others. Some are close to 101 and others are tucked deep in our lovely valley. Refer to our Map page for more detailed directions. For lodging ideas, click here. For more information call (707) 485-0322. |
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