Beautiful weather at the VA Wine Festival
Maybe it was a little windy to begin with. We were honestly not sure if the tent would still be standing - you see, we put it up on Friday night, so that we would be faster with setting up in the morning. Speaking of Friday night …. we ate at a German “Döner” stand. At a WHAT ?!? Yeah that’s right: Döner
“fresh lean meat from the rotisserie in a hot flatbread with a choice of salad and sauce” is what it says in the description - well, we know Döner of course from Germany ….. it got very popular there, due to its lean meat (the fat drips off of the rotisserie) and all the salad thats on it - you find it practically everywhere - as I remember the food came from Turkey or the Middle East. Anyway, it was delicious - if you visit the Hamburg-Döner guys on Catoctin Circle in Leesburg, VA say “Hi” to them from us and get the ’small’ version (unless you are REALLY hungry!
Alright, I really wanted to write about the festival though …. We were worried that the tent would have been blown away, since there were 30mph wind gusts throughout the night and even in to the morning …. BUT a little tape here and there and artistic usage of floral wire (to attach empty display gift box assortments to a water bottle, not to fly away!) and everything was in place.

We had fantastic weather otherwise and enjoyed all the buzz (literally) around. Saturday seemed a little more hectic than Sunday …. maybe just because we had to get into the rhythm though. We ran out of samples of our Pate de Fruit on Sunday afternoon and were completely out of samples by closing time on Sunday - so we were very happy with our estimation for those
All in all it was a fun event for everyone I think. We were happy to be able to add numerous folks to our mailing list and everyone promised us to keep us in mind for their Christmas gift giving.
We will unveil our Fall/Winter flavors soon and actually make a first batch this week to test the new recipes. We have a few tasting sessions coming up and I will keep you posted on those in a later post.
Until then!




October 7th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I attended a wine festival recently and wrote about it on my blog too. Thanks for sharing and drop by and comment on my post if you get a chance.
http://www.frommyexperience.com/wine-tasting-festival.php