Join us and hundreds of exuberant wine enthusiasts for the 2010 Crested Butte Food & Wine Festival.
This year's festival will include hundreds of wines from around the world, representing both established tradition and exciting new trends in winemaking. We realize you receive many invitations, please consider joining us in breathtaking Crested Butte, Colorado for our third year of extraordinary food and wine events.
Festival Dates: Wednesday July 21-Sunday July 25
Grand Tasting: The signature wine event of the Festival, the Grand Tasting will be hosted at the base of the Crested Butte Mountain ski area, just outside the Lodge at Mountaineer Square. 400-500 guests : : Saturday, July 24 : : 2 to 5 pm
New format for 2010
Colorado Mountain Events will produce the Grand Tasting event and the opening reception for the weekend. We have solicited the participation of the local restaurant and culinary community to produce a variety and format of food and wine events – wine seminars, culinary demonstrations, wine dinners, or whatever creative format they can develop. These are the individuals that wine distributors work with nearly every day – these events can work to enhance these relationships.
The restaurants will be responsible for identifying these opportunities and producing these events, with their businesses retaining 100 percent of sales. Our role as festival producers includes cultivating ideas for events with them, creating a unified marketing effort to position this one weekend as the “food and wine weekend” and matching them with interested wineries that are committed to the Grand Tasting event.
Chef Dinners: The Chef Dinners feature a roster of award-winning chefs who each will create an intimate dinner in a private home. The fundraising events will allow a small number of guests to enjoy a masterfully prepared multi-course dinner paired with some of the finest wines in the world. Seats to the Chef's Dinners are anticipated to be between $100 and $200 per person. If your winery or distributorship is interested in being the wine purveyor for any of these events, please contact Renee Ortiz at 303-570-4482.
Come see why Crested Butte was named one of Outside Magazine's Best Towns in 2008, Sunset's Top Dream Towns, and Travel + Leisure's One of America's Best Ski Towns. Known as one of Colorado's “true” ski towns, its charming ambiance and friendly people go hand in hand with the indescribable beauty of the area and the myriad of summer activities. Crested Butte has long been one of Colorado's best-kept secrets.
About the beneficiary: The Grand Tasting benefits the Crested Butte Land Trust (CBLT). The CBLT strives to keep the valley unique for the visitors and residents alike who are captivated by the beauty of the area's rich and diverse landscape that includes rivers and mountain streams, rolling hay meadows, and towering peaks blanketed by alpine forests. Too many of Colorado's ski area valleys have lost their ranches, vistas and wildlife habitat. CBLT believes open space has the unique ability to benefit everyone, and provides an economic value for the community which is far reaching and long lasting. The more than 5,000 acres CBLT has preserved protect crucial wetlands, wildlife habitats, unrivaled views, recreational opportunities and the valley's ranching heritage.
Invited winemakers and winery owners will receive complimentary lodging at Crested Butte Mountain Resort (2 nights) and Festival Credentials (allows access to Grand Tasting, the opening reception on Thursday evening). We have a limited number of complimentary room packages for winemakers and winery owners, available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Additional confirmed participating winery and distributor representatives will receive discounted lodging at Crested Butte Mountain Resort.
Lodging Information
Through our partnership with Crested Butte Mountain Resort, the Festival is proud to extend discounted room rates to winery representatives. With nightly rates starting at $121/night for a standard King in the Grand Lodge, here is no other wine event in Colorado that can offer you such a great rate in such a beautiful place. Reservations also include a single lift ticket. You can see the various accommodations by visiting http://www.skicb.com/cbmr/lodging.aspx.
To secure your room reservations at the winery rates of 20% off, please call Stacey Davey with CB Vacations at 970-349-2391.
We encourage you to complete your registration soon so we may better prepare for your participation with local restaurants and wine stores about featuring your products during the Festival. The support from our local restaurant community is impressive!
Thank you for considering our invitation. We look forward to hearing from you.
Click here to fill out the online registration/payment form.
Click here to download the registration form in PDF format.
Best Regards,
Radhika Black
Radhika@larimerassociates.com
Renee Ortiz
Renee@eventfulpro.com
Crested Butte Land Trust Wine & Food Festival
303-809-0404