2010
Fair Play Wine Festival
Our 27th Annual
Fitzpatrick Winery venue:
Music by folk duo
Anderson & Gram
Special all day Lunch menu
Farmstead Cheese tasting
Exciting Lineup of
Fitzpatrick Estate Wines
Special Festival Offers
Fair Play Festival
It was 1984 when Fair Play’s first three wineries thought of coordinating the dates and publicity for their annual open house celebrations and held the first Fair Play Wine Festival. The Fair Play Wine Festival holds the honor of the oldest ongoing winery association event in all the Sierra Foothills. Unique to the Fair Play Wine Festival’s beginning was, instead of all the wineries setting up in one location, the Festival goer visited each participating winery and experienced each winery’s individual expression of the Fair Play Wine Festival.
The fans of Fair Play wines couldn’t help but bring their friends, fueling the success of the Fair Play Wine Festival for two decades. What started with three wineries, peaked with ten wineries participating, every year delivering good times and great wines to thousands of supportive fans. The dynamics of the Festival have changed greatly over the years but the format evolved only a little. The wineries are crying out for something new. Each winery brings with them ideas reflective of their own creativity and vision for their future; and the possibilities for the future are as many as there are wineries.
Today's annual Fair Play Wine Festival is the first weekend of June and the overwhelming majority of Fair Play wineries participate (there's always a few crumudgens and freeloaders). Wine lovers are in for a big treat with two days of great wines, food, music and lots of fun. Although we get a thousand or so people attending it rarely seems busy because everyone is dispersed over near 20 wineries. If you can only come one day make it Sunday because Saturday is the busiest and you'll enjoy the special attention and laid back atmosphere at most wineries. Ticket's are available at each winery or online at www.fairplaywine.com .
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