Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sponsor/Benefactor Invitation-Only Wine Dinners
Private residences and selected wine cellars
6 pm
Highlanders will open their homes and private wine cellars for a variety of wine dinners, where local and regional chefs will prepare cuisine paired with wines from some of the leading vineyards. This will be an evening to remember for all lovers of good food and fine wine. Venues include the Fisher home, the Jones' Frog Pond Farm, the LeCraw home, and the Butler home. Please click here for details.
Free to Sponsors and Benefactors

Friday, May 21, 2010
"Stock Your Cellars" Wine Tasting Party
The Bascom
6 pm
Close to a hundred wines from several vendors and vintners will team up with lavish culinary delights prepared by Highlands’ and Cashiers' best chefs for the kickoff of the two-day wine festival. Grazing dinner, music, silent auction, more.
$100 ($295 Friday-Saturday Combination Ticket)

Saturday, May 22, 2010
Daytime Wine and Wine-Related Symposiums
10:45 am (choose one):
· Joe Davis, vintner, Arcadian Winery, and Johannes Klapdohr, chef, Old Edwards Inn, on "The Art of Food and Wine Pairing." Location: Old Edwards Inn.
· Carson Demmond, sommelier, The Modern, Museum of Modern Art, New York, on "Matchmaking: Wine & Cheese." Location: Main Street Inn.
· Mary Ann Hardman, owner of Persimmon Creek Vineyards in Clayton, is joined by enologist and sommelier-conseil Caroline Hoogenboom to conduct an educational wine session for the ladies only. "Calling All the Wine Ladies (Put a Cork on It)." Location: Inn at Half Mile Farm.

1 pm (choose one):
· Yves Durand, restaurateur, sommelier and author on Bordeaux wines, on "Discover Your Palate." Location: Main Street Inn.
· Janet Viader, Viader Vineyards & Winery, Napa Valley, California, on "The Aging of Wine." Location: Inn at Half Mile Farm.

Free to all Saturday ticket holders, Combo ticket holders, sponsors and benefactors

Saturday, May 22, 2010
Michael Bryan Wine Symposium
Inn at Half Mile Farm
2:30 pm
Michael Bryan, Atlanta Wine School, Atlanta, Georgia, will speak on "Enhancing the Taste of Wine with Stemware." Each attendee of the Bryan symposium will receive a gift of a mixed set of six Schott Zweisel wine glasses
$65 (Note: the Bryan symposium is a separate event not included in any other ticket package, and it is open to the public. Please note, Benefactors, Sponsors and Combination Ticket Holders – this is an additional charge.)

Saturday, May 22, 2010
Chateau Bascom Gala Wine Dinner and Auction
The Bascom
6 pm
In addition to a scrumptious seated dinner provided by Epting Events, Athens, Georgia, the Southeast's premier caterer, enjoy a live and silent auction featuring rare and large-format wines and wine-related trips. Greg Quiroga, a professional fundraising auctioneer with the renowned Reynolds & Buckley, San Francisco, will serve as auctioneer, and Napa Valley cult vintner and humanitarian Dick Grace, Grace Family Vineyards, will speak.
$225 ($295 Friday-Saturday Combination Ticket)