(CLOSED) Memorial Day Weekend Giveaway: VIP Five-Pack to Brandywine Food & Wine Festival

It’s time again for our Town Dish Fan of the Week Friday!

Want to take part in the first annual Brandywine Food & Wine Festival, unfolding on Saturday, June 9, noon – 6 pm at Myrick Conservation Center? Now’s your chance!

For this week’s Town Dish Giveaway, we’re gifting one lucky local a five-pack of VIP tickets to the early summer tasting affair (a $200 value). This prize pack scores you and four friends admission to the pre-fest VIP tent for a private wine tasting with the winemakers, as well as VIP parking and festival admission (which includes 10 complimentary tastings, a souvenir wine glass, a hands free holder, live music, and much more)!

For this first-ever event, we are proudly teaming up with Brandywine Valley Wine Trail to co-present the wine-infused summer shindig, which will showcase all of the trail’s wineries among other Pennsylvania-based vineyards, plus local foods, crafts, music, and more. More than twelve wineries will be on hand to provide tastings of local Pennsylvania vintages. Participating wineries include: Black Walnut WineryBorderland VineyardsChaddsford WineryKreutz Creek Vineyard, Paradocx VineyardPenns Woods Winery, Patone Cellars, Twin Brook WineryAllegro VineyardsFlickerwood CellarsGaler Estate Vineyard, Grace Winery, Kog Hill Winery, and Peace Valley Winery.

Better yet, local artisans will feature a wide variety of crafts and artwork, including custom jewelry, pottery, paintings and more.  A wide variety of spectacular foods prepared by local restaurants and caterers will be available for purchase, as well. Food vendors are set to include: Jimmy’s BBQMushroom CapYellow Springs Farm Goat CheeseForno Inferno, Bridge Street ChocolatesHillacres Pride Cheese, Amani’s BYOB,Taste of Olive, FreshaPeel HummusSherri’s CrabcakesPike Creek Coffee, Chester County Beekeeper AssociationSt. Peters BakeryScooped Ice Cream, and many others.

The festival will take place at Myrick Conservation Center, which is an outdoor venue, and it will be held rain or shine. Your VIP session with the winemakers begins at 11 am and runs until about 11:45 am. General admission for the festival begins at noon and runs until 6 pm.

Want to win this giveaway?

Click HERE to explore the Brandywine Food & Wine Festival’s website, spying peeks at the venue, the vendor lineup and participants, and much more. Swing by to this post and leave a comment stating why you and your friends need this VIP five-pack to jump-start your summer.

You have until midnight on Thursday, May 31, 2012 to enter. One winner will be selected at random soon after and will be announced via this post on Friday, June 1.

May the best local wine lover win!

UPDATE: Thanks for your entries! We picked a winner at random and that lucky local is Chrissy! Congrats!

Photographs credited to the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail.

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