Foodshed Alliance’s Wine and Food Festival Set for September 26th & 27th, 2015

Tickets Now Available for Foodshed Alliance’s Food and Wine Event.

Sponsored by Alba Vineyard, Wegmans and Whole Foods Market to benefit the Foodshed Alliance, the Garden State’s best wineries will join forces with the state’s premium wine wholesalers to pour their finest estate wines at the first annual Foodshed Alliance Wine and Food Festival at Alba Vineyard on September 26 and 27, 2015.

The festival is the vineyard’s largest charitable event of the year with 100% of the proceeds going to the Foodshed Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening local food systems that nourish people, sustain farmers, respect lands, and build a resilient food economy.

In staying true to the Foodshed Alliance’s mission, the festival will feature an impressive line-up of New Jersey’s most reputable chefs who will present cooking demonstrations, lectures and samples. Local celebrity cookbook authors as well as farmers will also share tips and strategies on how to best prepare, preserve and enjoy food locally produced in New Jersey. (For a schedule of events, please visit the festival’s website at FoodshedAllianceWineAndFoodFestival.com). All will be on hand throughout the weekend providing demos, lectures, tastings and more! Tours of the vineyard will be ongoing throughout the event.

The festival invites the best commercial wineries in the state who produce wine from grapes grown in the Garden State, as well as some of the most storied wineries in the world today. This year’s all-star line-up includes Alba Vineyard, Cape May Winery, Heritage Vineyard, Hopewell Valley Vineyard, Unionville Vineyard and Valenzano Vineyard. World-renowned featured wineries include; Robert Mondavi Napa Valley, Jadot, Masi and St Francis.

“This will be an event like no other! We are seeking to combine the area’s best agricultural offerings with premier wine, chefs and food,” said Kendrya Close, executive director of the Foodshed Alliance. “We are most grateful to Alba Vineyards for most generously agreeing to work with us on this as a benefit to support our work in promoting sustainable agriculture and local food in New Jersey.”

Come enjoy wine tastings, great food from Country Picnic and wood-fired pizza from Sanducci’s Trattoria, or bring your own picnic lunch. Local farms and food producers will be in attendance with food for purchase as well. Live music will be on hand the entire weekend.

Please visit FoodshedAllianceWineAndFoodFestival.com to reserve your discounted pre-sale tickets and to experience the very best wine and food the Garden State has to offer. Tickets, for those ages 21 and over, are $25, if purchased online by September 19. Thereafter, you can purchase tickets at the door for $35. Tickets for those ages 16 to 21 are $10. Tickets are also $10 for Designated Drivers. Those under 16 admitted free. For ticket and sponsor information, please contact Kendrya Close at 908-362-7967 or Kendrya@foodshedalliance.org. For more information visit them on Facebook!