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MONTEREY/CENTRAL COAST | WINE COUNTRY THIS WEEKBig Sur Food and Wine Festival, November 4-7In early 2009, a small group of friends came together with a visionto promote Big Sur as a culinary destination and raise funds for thecommunity’s three essential services: Health, Education and Safety. Inits first year, the Big Sur Food and Wine Festival helped raise nearly$20,000 for the Big Sur community.Come this year at the Highlands Inn, a Hyatt Hotel for a stunningnew opening evening: Gateway To Big Sur on Thursday, November4th. The weekend follows with many more meals and events such asthe popular Hiking With Stemware at various unique Big Sur properties.Also, California’s propensity for producing sublime Pinot Noirs,has inspired the Pinot Walk-About at the Restaurant at Ventana onFriday afternoon, featuring more than 20 favorite Pinot-producingwineries.Dinner With Friends on Saturday night at the Restaurant atVentana will feature top wines along with the culinary talents of ChefTruman Jones of Ventana, Arturo Moscoso of Peppoli at Pebble Beach,Ted Walters of Passionfish, Cy Yontz of the Rio Grill and from theCentral Coast Wine Classic, Frank Ostini of the famed Hitching PostThere are two extremely exciting additions to this year’s festival:The Gateway to Big Sur – an opening night extravaganza to be heldat the Highlands Inn in Carmel on Thursday, November 4, from 6 to9 p.m. “We’ll have over 20 of our favorite wineries and 10 chefsshowing off their skills, says festival president Toby Rowland-Jones.“There is no better way to throw open the doors to the weekend thanwith our friends and neighbors at the Highlands,” He says. “This isone of the loveliest hotels in all of California, and has a great historyof food and wine celebrations, most notably the Masters of Food andWine.”The other important and profound moment will occur whenOPUS VINO, the largest and most comprehensive wine referenceguide to date, will be released on the West Coast, Saturday, November6th, at the Big Sur Food and Wine Festival. On hand to sign copies,will be the Editor-in-Chief, Jim Gordon. Coming in at 800 pages, andwith information on every single imaginable wine-growing region,including 4,500 different varietals, OPUS VINO (November 2010;800 pp.; $75 HC) will be the go-to book for anyone even remotelyinterested in wine. Opus Vino is unusual in that it combines elementsof an encyclopedia and atlas with thousands of individual wine recommendations.Tickets for the 2010 Big Sur Food and Wine Festival went on saleSeptember 10th and almost immediately sold out one of the uniqueHiking With Stemware events. There is another on one of the loveliestproperties in Big Sur, coincidently also where the 2008 Basin ComplexFire started, so it has special poignancy. Hardly anyone except the firefightershas ever been up there!Some of the finest winemakers in California will be present for theweekend, including Tim Mondavi, who will present his latest wine,Continuum along with an array of wines made for his father Robert aswell as during the Mondavi’s collaboration with famed Super Tuscanhouse Ornellaia. On hand will be: Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon,Paul Draper of Ridge, Jim Clendenen of ABC, Rob Talbott and DanKarlsen of Talbott Vineyards, Gary Pisoni, David Ramey, John Alban,Morgan Clendenen, Emmanuel Kimiji of Miura, are just a few of theover 60 wineries appearing in some form or another for the four dayevent.The Grand Public tasting, featuring 32 wineries and five or sixchefs from the area, will be held at the stunning, redwood grove of theHenry Miller Library. “This particular event is going to be unique, wefeel,” Rowland-Jones says. “We are adding in local authors who havewritten books about food and wine or about their experiences livingon the coast.For more information on the 2010 Big Sur Food and Wine Festival,visit www.bigsurfoodandwine.org or call Toby Rowland-Jones directlyat (831) 667-0241.64 www.WineCountryThisWeek.com
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