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Press ReleaseNapa Valley Mustard Festival 2005
NEWS Twelfth Annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival Napa Valley, CA ~ Chefs, Winemakers, and Artists present the Best of Napa Valley Celebrate the bounty of Napa Valley during the 12th Annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival, January 29 through April 9, 2005. More than five hundred chefs, winemakers, award-winning mustard companies, artists, actors, and sponsors will present world class products, tantalizing works of art, and entertainment at more than 20 events in incomparable settings for eleven continuous weeks. Fields, vineyards and rolling hillsides vibrant with wild mustard in bloom provide a breathtaking backdrop for this Season of Sensational Wine Country Events. Each event on the Mustard Festival calendar provides a tasteful adventure through America's capital of food and wine.
January 29, 2005 ~ Mustard Magic ~ The Grand Opening Event Launch the season at Mustard Magic, the opulent grand opening event on Saturday, January 29, 7 p.m. at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena - and the Institute's West Coast campus, Napa Valley's historic treasure. Don a mask for the extravaganza magnifique, Napa Valley's most creative event of the year. Napa Valley Mustard Festival Host Chef Victor Scargle, Executive Chef, Julia's Kitchen, and Host Winemaker, Wayne Donaldson, Vice President, Winemaking and Vineyards, Domaine Chandon, will be among the Napa Valley celebrities on hand to greet guests. Stroll through candlelit rooms built of stone and lined with casks, discovering food, wine, art, and tableau vivants, where actors in costume will surprise you at every turn. Watch for trapeze artists performing in mid-air in the three-story atrium. Step across Monet's green bridge as ballet dancers unfold like water lilies on the mezzanine. Make your way to the Art Competition Gallery in the barrel room where the first person to claim a work of art takes it home. Savor music on every floor and dance to Mardi Gras-inspired Cajun swamp boogie blues. After sampling an abundance of sumptuous hors d'oeuvres enjoy a gourmet buffet in the Culinary Institute of America's famed teaching kitchen ~ then raise your paddle high at the live auction in the starlit Ball Masqué on the third floor. You'll enjoy Mustard Festival memories at winemaker dinners, luxurious trips, art, and an enhanced wine collection during the months to come. Mustard Magic proceeds benefit Culinary Institute of America educational programs.
February 5 and 6, 2005 ~ A Weekend of Fine Art Add to your art collection during A Weekend of Fine Art on February 5 and 6. Galleries throughout Napa Valley will feature special exhibits and receptions. Meet the artists juried into the Festival's Fine Art Competition at a reception at St. Supéry on Saturday evening, February 5, at 5 p.m. The exhibit will be open to the public through March 24, 2005.
February 18, 2005 ~ Grand Dîner à Domaine Chandon Assemble with fellow gourmets to indulge in seven sumptuous courses at Grand Dîner à Domaine Chandon on Friday, February 18, 6 p.m. at Domaine Chandon in Yountville. Host Chef Victor Scargle, Domaine Chandon Executive Chef Ron Boyd, 2004 Napa Valley Mustard Festival Award Winning Chef Kelly Macdonald, Executive Chef of the Napa Valley Wine Train, and Ken Frank, Executive Chef and Owner, La Toque will be among the line up of celebrity chefs. Each course pairs a vinter and chef to ensure a perfect marriage of tastes. The event includes a silent auction featuring exquisite food and wine lots. Reserve early; seating is limited to 125.
March 11, 2005 ~ The Awards, A Tasty Competition! Meet world champion mustard makers, dance to live music, taste original mustard recipes by Napa Valley chefs, and help select the Napa Valley Mustard Festival's People Choice Chef of the Year at The Awards, A Tasty Competition! ~ on March 11, 7 p.m. at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa.
March 12 and 13, 2005 ~ The Marketplace, the Signature Event Celebrate the mustard season and taste mustards from around the world at The Marketplace, Napa Valley Mustard Festival's Signature Event, on Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa. Highlights of this rain or shine Festival for connoisseurs include celebrity chef cooking demonstrations sponsored by Viking Range; a Sunset Magazine pavilion; and a KGO Newstalk AM 810 live remote broadcast of Dining Around with Gene Burns. Artful activities include fine arts and crafts presented by juried artists and artisans, and live performances of jazz, world, and classical music. Proceeds from The Awards and The Marketplace benefit COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts educational programs, and enable the Napa Valley Mustard Festival to continue its work on behalf of the community.
February 12 ~ March 3 ~ The Community Events Don't miss this array of community and non-profit events, which further enrich the Mustard Season Calendar. The Napa Valley Museum's Angel Gala will be held on Saturday, February 12. Cravings Creations at Vintage 1870 in Yountville will be held on Saturday, February 19. Savor St. Helena will be held in downtown St. Helena on Saturday, February 26. Mustard, Mud, & Music - A Calistoga Jazz Festival - will be held throughout the community of Calistoga on Saturday, March 5. A Taste of Yountville will be held in downtown Yountville where the main street will be closed for festivities on Saturday, March 19. Volunteer Center of Napa Valley's Masquerade Ball will be held at V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena on Saturday, March 19, 7 p.m. Festival events will not be held on Easter weekend, March 26 & 27; or the weekend of April 2 & 3 during nearby Sonoma's Cinema Epicurea, 8th Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival.
April 9 ~ The Photo Finish ~ The Grand Finale Event View the season's beauty captured by photographers from far and wide at The Mumm Napa Photo Finish, the inevitably "sold out" and wildly exuberant Napa Valley Mustard Festival Grand Finale Event, to be held at Mumm Napa in Rutherford on Saturday, April 9 at 7 p.m. Taste a heady array of fine wines along with sweets, savories, and barbecue; vie for the purchase of a favorite photograph from among some 300 entries; and revel in the party until the last dance.
A Bit of History and Napa Valley Vistas "Our season of events has perfect balance," says Jim O'Shea, Sterling Vineyards Director of Hospitality, who helped establish the Festival's highly successful photography contest at Mumm Napa in 1994. "It offers our visitors an experience that presents the quality of food, wine and art in Napa Valley during a time of year that is free from the pressures of crowds we experience during the summer and harvest seasons." "The Napa Valley Mustard Festival has generated a new visitor season in Napa Valley," says George Rothwell, the Festival's founder, " It offers an exceptional Napa Valley experience. The Festival has been an extremely positive endeavor for the community. It is our pleasure to share this special place with the many visitors who come here during the Mustard Season, and to introduce them to the beautiful scenery and way of life we are privileged to enjoy every day." Driving, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, ballooning, and the Napa Valley Wine Train provide moving experiences from which to view the beauty of the Mustard Season. The Napa Valley Wine Train is one Napa Valley's most active Festival supporters. "We can provide the best experience of the year for visitors to Napa Valley during the Mustard Season," says Napa Valley Wine Train Marketing Director Erica Ercolano. "When the wild mustard blooms in the vineyards, you can't top a getaway to Napa Valley. The views, the events, and the hospitality are unsurpassed." Voted "Tops for Fun" by readers of Gourmet Magazine the Napa Valley Wine Train offers a full season of Mustard Season events: Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre, Sunday Dinner & Concert Series, Vista Dome Vintner Luncheons, Family Fun Nights ~ Kids Ride Free. For reservations call 800.427.4124.
Napa Valley Wine Train Mustard Season Events
Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre ~ January 7, 21; February 4, 5, 18; March 4, 18
The Napa Valley Mustard Festival is a non-profit community service organization. Major sponsors of the 12th annual Sensational Season of Events are ABC7/KGO-TV, Accent Party Rental, American Airlines, Comcast, KGO Newstalk AM 810,Sunset Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Domaine Chandon, Mumm Napa, Sterling Vineyards, Viking Range, Raley's and Nob Hill Foods, Napa Valley Wine Train, Grey Poupon, The Vintage Estate, and WineCountry.com. For tickets and information, guidelines for the art, photography, and mustard competitions, and a complete calendar of events call 707.259.9020, visit the Festival website at www.mustardfestival.org, email info@mustardfestival.org, or call Summers-McCann, Inc., Public Relations, event producer, at 707.938.1133. ### prepared by Summers-McCann, Inc. Public Relations P.O. Box 3603 Yountville, CA 94599 707.938.1133 info@mustardfestival.org See Also:
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