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The Gourmet Experience*

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The Gourmet Experience is a food, luxury and lifestyle event showcasing the best in gourmet products and services.

From professional cookware to epicurean travel tours to home entertaining, The Gourmet Experience is the ultimate lifestyle event for those with refined and sophisticated tastes. Held in San Diego on October 9-10, 2010 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, the event features over 250 exhibitors showcasing and selling gourmet cuisine, products and services crafted for the everyday gourmand.

For complete information, visit The Gourmet Experience website.

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Music in the Vineyards*

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Music in the Vineyards Announces ‘Sweet 16’ Season

Chamber Festival Offers Award-Winning Artists Performing in Stunning Settings

NAPA VALLEY, Calif., – This August, 35 renowned musicians from around the world will travel to the Napa Valley to perform in Music in the Vineyards ’ 16th annual chamber music festival. The three-week festival showcases a plethora of awardwinning artists-in-residence performing in intimate winery settings with complimentary wine tastings at intermission.

See the complete schedule.

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Saratoga Invitational*

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August 20 & 21 2010
(August 19 reserved for industry only)

The Saratoga Beer-Bourbon-Scotch Invitational is an upscale event to be held at the Saratoga Springs City Center and Saratoga Hilton Hotel. It is a tasting event for consumers and an award event for brewers and distillers.

The event will provide a unique opportunity for consumers to sample a wide variety of beers, bourbons and scotches in a comfortable upscale environment.

There will be numerous food stations throughout the event space. The event will encompass well over 35,000 square feet of space indoor as well as outdoors which will ensure a comfortable environment for visitors and attendees. The Cigar Event will be held outdoor on the patio area.

The educational seminars will be held in adjacent banquet rooms that will be set up class room style.These seminars will afford consumers a more intimate experience with the brewers and distillers products.

Also a select number of wine and spirits companies will be invited.

For complete information and tickets, visit the event website:
www.SaratogaInvitational.com.

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TexSom 2010*

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Texsom Conference: August 15 & 16 at Four Seasons - Las Colinas

Wine courses and tastings with top experts that normally cost close to a thousand dollars are being offered for a nominal fee in the Dallas area. The Sixth Annual Texas Sommelier Conference (TexSom) showcases lectures and guided tastings at the Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas on August 15 and 16.

All wine lovers are invited to attend a full day of classes on Sunday, August 15^th ($150 for five seminars and lunch) and a grand tasting on Monday evening, August 16 ($75). A separate set of seminars, designed exclusively for the trade and media, are offered on Monday ($50 for five seminars and lunch). Each class features at least eight wines to taste and lasts one hour and fifteen minutes. To register, visit www.texsom.com/registration.htm .

Full press release in PDF format.

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