{"id":11915,"date":"2015-10-01T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2015-10-01T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T21:29:44","slug":"25th-annual-virginia-wine-garlic-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/25th-annual-virginia-wine-garlic-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Annual Virginia Wine &#038; Garlic Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend while waiting out the potential northeaster storm and Hurricane Joaquin at least a Category 3 storm over this next few days, take the time to find out about the 25th Annual Virginia Wine &amp; Garlic Festival scheduled for October 10 and 11.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiagarlicfestival.com\">Annual Wine &amp; Garlic Festival<\/a>\u00a0takes place at Rebec Vineyards in Amherst, Virginia. Ten featured Virginia wineries are participating including: Rebec Vineyards, Peaks of Otter Winery, Lazy Days, Rockbridge Vineyard, Hill Top Berry, Burnley Vineyards, Mountain Cove Vineyards, The Homeplace Vineyard, Virginia Mountain Vineyards and North Mountain Vineyard and Winery.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to wineries, nine garlic growers offering an assortment of garlic products including specialty garlic, garlic heads, garlic braids, elephant garlic, ethnic garlic and organically grown garlic are participating.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 50 arts and crafts vendors will offer a wide assortment of gift items for browsing. Perhaps purchase a treasured keepsake for yourself. Many additional vendors will also include goat cheese, hot sauces, baked goods, soaps, totes and specialty kitchen products including garlic graters.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment will include artists: Jodie Davis, Big Foot County, Steve Freeman Band, Dragonfly, FaST, Just Wanna Play, Frank Coffey &amp; Company and High Energy of Speed.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is family friendly with activities available for children.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/25th-virginia-wine-garlic-festival-10am-5pm-saturday-sunday-october-10th-11th-2015-tickets-15715343014\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11917\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/homeplace3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11917\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11917\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/homeplace3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Homeplace Vineyard tasting room\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Homeplace Vineyard tasting room<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Note: Wine Trail Traveler visited and written about <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/virginia\/thehomeplace.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Homeplace Vineyard<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winetrailtraveler.com\/listings\/virginia\/peaksofotter.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peaks of Otter Winery<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winetrailtraveler.com\/virginia\/mountaincove.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain Cove Vineyards<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winetrailtraveler.com\/virginia\/rockbridge.php\" target=\"_blank\">Rockbridge Vineyard<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/virginia\/burnley.php\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley Vineyards<\/a>.\u00a0Check out the articles online.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"25th Annual Virginia Wine & Garlic Festival\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11915\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wineries, garlic growers and vendors are participating in the 5th Annual Virginia Wine &#038; Garlic Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2715,184,34,3473,98],"class_list":["post-11915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wineryevents","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-festival","tag-food","tag-garlic","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11922,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions\/11922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}