ColoradoFest

Colorado Fest … Celebrating Colorado’s Food, Wine, Beer & Art – Sept. 7 – 9, 2007
Gunnison-Crested Butte Introduces Festival to Showcase Best of Colorado

The Western Slope mountain towns of Gunnison, Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte have teamed up to showcase the best of Colorado, Sept. 7 – 9. “Colorado Fest … Celebrating Colorado’s Food, Wine, Beer & Art” is a new event that focuses exclusively on Colorado. Escape to the cool, clean and crisp Rocky Mountain air and laid-back, friendly atmosphere of the beautiful Gunnison Valley.

The weekend begins on Friday evening in Gunnison with an art gallery crawl, live music and a food and wine reception at the Gunnison Arts Center, where guests can meet and talk with David S. Carbonetti of Mountain Sommeliers, LLC and three Colorado winemakers. The weekend in Gunnison, Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte will offer food and wine pairings, a winemaker dinner, a wine tasting with Colorado foods under the cottonwood trees with music by the Bruce Hayes Band, a beer festival and chili cook-off and two farmers’ markets. Local restaurants will be featuring fixed-price dinner menus of “Colorado only” products and guests can tap into their creative sides with hands-on pottery and cooking classes, music and more. Visit www.ColoradoFest.com to reserve events online.