Josephine Proul from Local 11
The Hudson Berkshire Beverage Trail hosted the first major wine festival of the season over the Memorial Day weekend in hosting their wine and food festival at the Columbia County Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday. It was the first festival that featured wines, beers, and spirits from New York and Massachusetts. It was largely made possible by Governor Cuomo's legislative shove resulting from the Wine, Beers, and Spirits Summit in 2012.
Fred LeBrun of the Albany Times-Union
The festival was a major success drawing thousands of people from as far away as Boston
and New York, as well as Connecticut and New Jersey, and was jammed packed despite soggy, torrential rains.
CIA Trained Chef Mike Castellano
Seminars were well attended with everything from cooking classes and demonstrations by local well known chefs, as well as beer and wine seminars. Speakers included Fed LeBrun, The World Wine Guys, and Chad Polenz.
Read the review from THE REGISTER STAR of the wine festival:
Tarot by Prudence
Festival Goers Sarah and Sal Robles
The World Wine Guys Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jensen of Wine Enthusiast, and a author of THE FIRE ISLAND COOK BOOK and THE COMPLETE WINES OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
Chad Polenz, of Chad's Beer Reviews and the Albany Times-Union
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