Food and Wine Festival in Gettysburg

Saturday, we headed to the Gettysburg Wine and Music Festival.  It was in a empty field near a Movie Theater complex. It is the 6th annual festival here in Gettysburg. There were around 20 wineries participating. The tickets to get in included a wine glass and free tastings of any of the wines. It seemed there were a lot of sweet wines, more than we have seen at other wine festivals. Some were pretty good, such as a blueberry wine and also one called pinot colada that yes tasted like a pina colada. Would be good as dessert wines. They also had food, of course, such as crepes to crab cakes to gyros. The first group was a Beatles tribute band called the Resistors. They were pretty good. It was a little hot as there was no shade anywhere. Also we didn't bring chairs and so you had to sit on the ground if you didn't want to stand the whole time you were there and so we only stayed for a few hours. It was fun though.

Some of the smart people who brought chairs

                                                                             

Santa Fe Wine Festival

On Saturday we went to the Santa Fe Wine Festival at El Rancho De Las Golondrinas, a living museum. There were 19 wineries there. The price of admission included your tastings. We did buy one unique bottle of a Hatch Green Chile Wine. It's taste does have a light green chile taste to it, but not over powering. We also bought a jar of hickory almond smoked mustard. I am looking forward to using that in a sauce over salmon or chicken. The Festival had many specialty gourmet foods of southwestern jellies, sauces and spices. They also had a lot of art work and jewelry. They also had entertainment. We were entranced by Kumusha Marimba Ensemble, an all woman Santa Fe band which has been performing African "community dance" music on handmade wooden instruments for over a decade. They switched around so they all used the different instruments. Of course there was also a food selection. We had some tamales at Roque's Carnitas, the original downtown cart vendor. Roque was voted Best Food Cart/Truck 2008 by Santa Feans in SFR's annual Best of Santa Fe issue.