Wine festival

That's a really good festival because it's a down to earth kind of thing.

The Wine Festival, people are happy for a whole nother reason, but it's still a social event.

And people just love these things.

um even though they're getting kind of commercialized in my day it was not many festivals like that the festivals were families that got together made sorghum did apple butter butchered hogs you you name it i mean it sounds really redneck as it could be but Yes, it was.

It's time for Word Play with the K92 Morning Fang.

Yep, we have some tickets to the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival.

It's going on the 26th and the 27th.

You can win 'em right now.

Yep, that's what Emily said as well.

Okay, cool.

Well, Emily, you got the wine tickets to Smith Mountain Lake's Wine Festival that's happening this weekend from K92.

That's perfect.

Oh, yeah.

Art and Wine Festival, seeing Billy Joe.

Art and Wine Festival and Billy Joe? Oh,

come on.

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I'm Mercedes Mejia.

Today we're heading to the Traverse City Food and Wine Festival right on Grand Traverse Bay to figure out what makes this place's food culture distinctly up north.

And we talk with a community of veterans and newcomers that are building something special.

I'm at the festival's Grand Tasting.

This is The Dish.

I'm Mercedes Mejia.

So here we are again at the Traverse City Food and Wine Festival.

I'm weaving around the grand tasting, chatting with chefs and winemakers who've really helped shape the flavors and stories that make this place what it is.

The 40th Annual Grape Fest, a Texas wine experience, has taken place this weekend.

This is the largest wine festival in the Southwest, and it returns on September 17th through the 20th for four unforgettable days featuring exceptional Texas wine and exciting activities.

At Grapefest, historic Main Street in downtown Grapevine, Texas, transforms into a celebration of the Lone Star State's wine culture with the People's Choice Wine Tasting Classic at the center of all the fun.

This is the largest consumer judge wine competition in the United States, where guests taste over 40 North Texas and Hill Country wineries during a 90-minute tasting session.

This is one of the premier wine events of the year and one you don't want to miss.

For more information and ticket purchases to this event, visit grapevine texas usa.com. Head on up to Lake LBJ in the Highlands Lake region of Texas and join the Kingsland and Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce for their fourth annual Taste Highland Lakes Food and Wine Festival event on Saturday, September 19th from 11 to 3 p.m.

This event features an incredible collection of wine, including tastings from the region's top vendors, live entertainment by the Daniel Hopkins Band and a vibrant shopping experience.

For more information and ticket purchases for this event, visit kinglandchamber.org.

People wait in line for coffee, which is weird to me.

But anyway, coming up on this Bites, we'll continue our conversation with details on this weekend's Freshwater Food and Wine Festival.

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We're back on This Bites, Milwaukee's longest culinary podcast with Milwaukee Magazine's Ann Kircherson and I'm Tariq Moody.

Ann, there's a big culinary event, inaugural event happening on the Summerfest grounds here in Meijer Festival Park called the Freshwater Food and Wine Festival.

I assume you've been reading about this and covering this too.

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Featuring rock and folk music, theatre performances, panel discussions and of course much wine tasting, the Grape Harvest Festival attracts thousands of people to Mikulov every September.

It marks the culmination of a long series of events that fill the town's cultural calendar almost back to back during the warm months of the year.

Well, summer is, of course, a main touristic season, but it's also a main cultural season.