Flavor!Second Annual Food & Wine Festival includes 50 chefs,Napa Valley over 125 vintners, and adds two days of hands-on immersions Tbut none can make the connection learn from the region’s culinary leaders in a Presenter Shannon Staglina two-day immersion into Napa Valley’ssuperlative wine and food, with the chance tohere may be dozens of food &wine festivals across the country, between food and wine like FLAVOR! NAPA series of intimate four-hour workshops. Each VALLEY. The second annual Flavor! Napa workshop offers a lesson into the terroir, behind Valley follows a wildly successful 2011 debut the barrel, or throughout the farm, led by Napa with an impressive array of celebrated chefs, Valley tastemakers such as La Toque Chef Ken restaurants, vintners, sommeliers and artisan Frank, Vintner Shannon Staglin and artisan olive food producers, scheduled for November 14–18, oil producer Ryan MacDonnell. Each experience 2012. In addition to the star-studded dinners, ends with a celebratory meal featuring the demonstrations and tastings, this year’s Flavor! bounty of the day’s activities. Napa Valley offers two new events that celebrate The Napa Valley is famous for some of history’s the culinary prowess of the Napa Valley, and greatest wines, and Flavor! Napa Valley is pulling bring back the most popular Flavor! event—“The out all the stops for the Legends of Napa Valley Appellation Trail: Tasting Napa Valley.” historic tasting. The Legends of Napa Valley New to 2012 is a hands-on culinary series tasting will illustrate the dramatic rise of Napa named “Terroir to Table™: Farm, Kitchen & Valley through the prism of its greatest wines. Cellar,” offering eager food and wine enthusiasts Over two morning sessions, thirty-two tasters will have the opportunity to experience the history of the Napa Valley in a glass, tasting rare, legendary wines from vintners who led the post-Prohibition TickeTs are renaissance, to celebrated wines produced by the on sale now new pioneers of today.Returning for 2012 is Flavor’s most popular event, The Napa Valley Appellation Flavor! napa Valley’s net Trail, a tasting trek through each of the area’s proceeds support student acclaimed appellations. At the beautiful and programs and scholarships at historic Culinary Institute of America’s historic The cIA’s greystone campus in Greystone building in St. Helena, guests will St. helena, napa Valley. encounter more than 100 wineries pouring For tickets and more everything from Albariño to Zinfandel. Along information, along with a the “trail” will be savories and delectable complete lineup of festival offerings from over two dozen of Napa Valley’s events and activities, top restaurants to complement the incredible please visit array of wines. As a special offer for locals, Napa www.flavornapavalley.com Valley residents will receive preferred pricing on the Appellation Trail by using a Napa County zip code when purchasing tickets. 22 w w w. n A PA V A L L E Y L I F E m A g A z I n E . c o m
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