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<\/a>Silver Mountain Winery at the 2012 Vintners’ Festival<\/p><\/div>\n
The 24th annual Santa Cruz Mountains Vintners\u2019 Festival, \u201cRoots that Rock,\u201d finishes up this weekend in Santa Cruz County with barrel tastings, new wine releases, and a downtown Santa Cruz Street Faire June 9 with local artisan foods from vendors including restaurants plus live entertainment. Read more about the Street Faire at the bottom of this article.<\/p>\n
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The Vintners\u2019 Festival, hosted by SCMWA<\/a> (the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association) began last weekend (June 1-2) with events in Santa Clara & San Mateo counties. The festival continues in Santa Cruz County from June 8-9, 2013. Participants may take part in barrel tastings, meet winemakers, and enjoy live music, art and good food. Attendees are also invited to stroll through many of the winery gardens, and to have a picnic in the beautiful surroundings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wineries participating in the Vintners’ Festival pour from noon-5:00 p.m. each of the weekend days. Tickets are $43 online<\/a> or $50 at the door; each ticket includes a souvenir wine glass that is good for tasting at winery locations during both weekends of the 2013 Vintners\u2019 Festival, plus admission & 10 tasting tickets for the Santa Cruz Street Faire. For more about the festival, call (831) 685-VINE (8463) or visit the SCMWA web site at scmwa.com. If you\u2019re interested in visiting one or some of the wineries but don\u2019t want to buy the \u201call-access pass,\u201d you can choose to just pay tasting fees at individual wineries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SANTA CRUZ STREET FAIRE <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Location<\/b>: Pacific Ave. between Locust & Walnut<\/p>\n Time\/Date<\/b>: 11 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. Sun. June 9<\/p>\n Price<\/b>: $8 plus handling fee online<\/a> or $8 at event for commemorative wine glass (tasting requires glass plus tickets at $1 each; tastings cost between 2 and 5 tickets)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More details:<\/b><\/p>\n At this event you\u2019ll be able to taste wines that are not always available outside of the tasting room. The vintners of the Santa Cruz Mountains will be pouring their favorite wines including new releases, favorites and hard-to-find varietals. There will be a special Vintners’ Marketplace booth where you can buy bottles to take home.<\/p>\n Here’s the line-up:<\/p>\n Music & Entertainment<\/b><\/p>\n 7th Wave<\/p>\n Amee Chapman<\/a><\/p>\n Cooper Street Band<\/p>\n Mitch’s Mob<\/p>\n Trippy Chicks Hoop Troupe<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wineries<\/b><\/p>\n Bargetto Winery<\/p>\n Beauregard Vineyards<\/p>\n Big Basin Vineyards<\/p>\n Burrell School Vineyards<\/p>\n Cinnabar Winery<\/p>\n Dancing Creek Winery<\/p>\n Downhill Cellars<\/p>\n Hunter Hill Vineyards & Winery<\/p>\n MJA Vineyards & Winery<\/p>\n Myka Cellars<\/p>\n Naumann Vineyards<\/p>\n Sante Arcangeli Family Wines<\/p>\n Silver Mountain Winery<\/p>\n Storrs Winery and Vineyards<\/p>\n Villa del Monte Winery<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Artisan Food<\/b><\/p>\n Buttercup Cupcakes and Farm House Frosting<\/a><\/p>\n Cardamom Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n Center Street Grill<\/a><\/p>\n Chocolate Restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n Chocolate Visions<\/a><\/p>\n Low n Slow Food Truck<\/a><\/p>\n Mission Hill Creamery<\/a><\/p>\n Monterey Chocolate Company<\/a><\/p>\n The Oyster Man<\/p>\n Pacific Thai<\/a><\/p>\n Sweet Pea’s Cafe<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Artists<\/b><\/p>\n Anne Labrie Studios<\/a><\/p>\n Annieglass<\/a><\/p>\n August Moon Creations<\/p>\n Bonny Doon Fused Glass<\/a><\/p>\n Cardamom Tuesday<\/p>\n Damselfly Jewelry<\/a><\/p>\n Copper Moon Apothecary<\/a><\/p>\n Friends of SC State Parks (Michael Schwab Prints)<\/a><\/p>\n Hook and Loop Jewelry Design<\/a><\/p>\n Jade Shaper<\/p>\n Linda Cordy Photography<\/p>\n Lori Canton Photography<\/p>\n reWINEd Designs<\/a><\/p>\n Roots Artkives<\/a><\/p>\n Ruby Roxanne Designs<\/a><\/p>\n Ruth Easterbrook Ceramics<\/a><\/p>\n Sandcastle Magic<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 24th annual Santa Cruz Mountains Vintners\u2019 Festival, \u201cRoots that Rock,\u201d finishes up this weekend in Santa Cruz County with barrel tastings, new wine releases, and a downtown Santa Cruz Street Faire June 9 with local artisan foods from … Continue reading