Dear Winemaking Friend,
We cordially invite you to grapestompers' 8th Annual Wine
Festival to be held at the Burgiss Barn in Laurel Springs,
NC on Sunday, October 2, 2005 from 2:30 - 5:00 PM.
Admission is only $5.00 per person, and includes your choice
of either an etched souvenir wine glass from Thistle Meadow
Winery or 2 wine tasting plates* (see description below),
wine tasting, heavy hors d'oeuvres, live music, and local
artisans showing off their handmade crafts.
If you would like a souvenir wine glass AND a plate, the
cost is only $7.50.
Please call 800-233-1505 or email me (my address is below)
to register for this event, to help ensure we have enough
food to go around.
The festivities will start with an optional lunch buffet
beginning at 11 AM. The buffet costs $8.00 for adults,
$7.00 for seniors and $3.00 for children under 8. Price
includes tax and tip. The buffet will be served until 2 PM
(or until gone) and features grilled country ham, grilled
chicken breast, and chopped pork BBQ along with 7 vegetables
cooked the old fashioned way (slow and low) to seal in all
the flavor. Add to that your dessert, drink and bread...
for a wonderful rib-sticking meal.
After that nice buffet, you can walk around and taste wines
from other North Carolina wineries, including Weathervane
Winery and Buck Shoals Vineyards.
*These rugged plates have a hole in one corner of the plate,
which are designed to hold your wine glass. That way, you
can hold your plate AND your glass with one hand - which is
perfect for mingling with and greeting other wine tasters!
These plates are made of heavy clear plastic and are safe
for dishwashers.
We predict that Fall will be in the air, so bring a sweater
along just in case there is a chill in the air! The fall
leaves will be turning at this point, so a bring a camera
to shoot some colorful pictures of the festival.
Also invited to the festival are some home winemakers from
our region because they always bring in a surprise or two!
One of our customers may let you in on how to make your own
champagne. Bring your friends and neighbors so they can
see and learn how to cork a bottle, and how to uncork a
bottle and avoid getting cork into your wine. We'll also be
discussing wine and food pairings, how to make a sweet wine
sour, and a sour wine sweet! You'll also learn how to make
a bitter wine taste better, and how to make a sweet wine
taste dry!
If you're a home winemaker and would like to show off your
wines at the festival, please give us a call to make the
appropriate arrangements. A free lunch for two and a $15
gift certificate to grapestompers.com is in the offing!
Explore the tasting of wine with different wine glasses and
see for yourself how wine glasses themselves play a big part
in the tasting and aroma of wine!
Prizes will be awarded for the person who has traveled the
farthest to attend the festival, and the oldest home
winemaker in the crowd. We'll even award prizes for the
oldest person attending our festival and the youngest bride-
to-be. So plan to be here in Laurel Springs, NC and join
in all the food and fun!
Nancy and I hope to see you there!
Tom Burgiss
tom at grapestompers dot com
800-233-1505
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