Festival Events 2024
We brought back your favorite events and added some exciting new events for 2024!
Friday August 30, 2024
The Art of Wine and Charcuterie
Date: August 30, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
Location: I/G Winery
Cost: $65
Join hosts Jim Santangelo from the Wine Academy of Utah, Heather Cox from Bee Hive Cheese Company, and Heidi Orr from Digby’s Market as they create delicious and exotic tiny bites that make a fun pairing with your favorite Utah wines. You’ll love learning more about how to taste cheese like a pro, what makes a dried meat so special and why these foods have been the soul mate of great wines throughout the millennia. Get your tickets to what promises to be another fun and entertaining Jim Santangelo production.
Culinary & Carbonic
Date: August 30, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Water Canyon Resort Winery
Cost: $130
This food and wine event brings together the culinary craftsmanship of Water Canyon Resort’s Executive Chef, Indy Tooke, pairing the delectable flavors of Water Canyon Resort Winery’s carbonic style wines, to create a food and wine event like no other. Plan to join owners Shane and Kalie at Water Canyon Winery in Hildale for this night of great food, live music, fireside conversations and Shane’s amazing Utah wines.
Whiskey & Cigar Social
Date: August 30, 2024
Time: 9:00pm
Location: I/G Winery
Cost: $95
Back by popular demand. We had so many requests to bring this event back and we are pleased to say it is on the list of our 2024 Festival events. Join Host Jim Santangelo as he pairs 3 of his favorite whiskeys with one of his favorite cigars. Enjoy the how the whiskey changes the flavor of the cigar and vice versa. This is a fun way to wind down and relax as you prepare to take on a weekend of activities.
Saturday August 31, 2024
Ciders, Meads, and Non-Traditional Wines of Utah
Date: August 31, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Location: I/G Winery
Cost: $65
Explore a world of wine beyond the grapes. Join Utah fruit wine and mead maker Jay Yahne, of The Hive Winery & Spirits Company, for an in depth look at the incredible versatility and complexity of fruit wines made without any grapes.
Compare multiple styles of single fruit wines with finishes ranging from dry to sweet and experience how the finish impacts the flavor. See how adding honey or a second fruit changes the character. Look at the flavors of the base fruit and how those flavors translate into the finished wine. We will look specifically at peach wines and black currant wines during this dive into the world of fruit wine, a world that is under appreciated but every bit as real and enjoyable as the more traditional grape wines you are familiar with.
Utah Grapes and Their European Counterparts
Date: August 31, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Location: I/G Winery
Cost: $70
Join European Master of Wine Sheral Schowe, owner of the Wasatch Academy of Wine as she takes you on a guided tasting of Utah wines and their European counter parts. Join Sheral as she gives you an in-depth comparison of Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Sangiovese and Tempranillo comparing those grown in Utah to those that were produced in their native countries in Europe. You will also learn the history of these varietals and why they are becoming such popular varietals among Utah wine growers.
Flights and Bites
Date: August 31, 2024
Time: 3:00pm
Location: I/G Winery
Cost: $80
Join Utah winemakers at this private event as they talk you through a tasting of their wines. Enjoy bites from Beehive Cheese Company and Digby’s Market as you visit each Utah Winery, try a samples of their wines and discuss why they made their wines in the style that they did. Take this opportunity to talk with the owners and the winemakers of I/G Winery, Zion Vineyards, Bold & Delaney Winery, Water Canyon Winery, Chanela Winery, The Vine Yard Winery, and The Hive Winery and get their “behind the scenes” stories of what they do and why they do it. It’s relaxed, up close and personal, and you’re bound to learn a few new things about Utah wines.
Terroir to Table Dinner
Date: August 31, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Red Acre Farm
Cost: $150
Join us for a unique dining experience under the open sky at Cedar’s famous Red Acre Farm CSA. The dinner will include wine from Bold & Delaney winery as well as Water Canyon Winery. There will be appetizers and ciders before we gather for a farm tour. Then, a sit-down dinner will be served family-style (or farm-style). Discussion and questions from the guests will be encouraged. Farmer and chef Sara Patterson will create the menu with ingredients dictated by what they freshly harvest from Red Acre Farm. Wasatch Academy of Wine Owner Sheral Schowe will also be present to explain the history of the Utah wines that will be a part of this dinner.
Sunday September 1, 2024
Viticulture and Vino
Date: September 1, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Location: Mindira Vineyard, Rockville, UT
Cost: $69
Southern Utah’s newest vineyard, called Mindira, is located on the banks of the Virgin River, in Rockville, just outside Zion National Park. It is a young vineyard but the location is second to none. we held the event here last year and so those that planted vines can come back and check their progress this year. Once again, Digby’s Market will be bringing another fantastic picnic feast for all to enjoy and I/G Winery will bringing their award winning wines. A fun twist on this years event will be to try different sauces (hand made by Digby’s Executive Chef, Heidi Orr) as Winemaker Caitie Sorrels walks you through a taste experience showing how wines and sauces together can make significant differences on the final tastes of the foods they are paired with. Anyone that was there last year knows you do not want to miss this lunch.
The Grand Dinner
Date: September 1, 2024
Time: 6:30pm
Location: TBD
Cost: $185
We set up one long table in order to serve this immersive dinner experience. UDOT has refused to allow us to close Center Street for our annual dinner this year so we are moving the event over to a beautiful stretch of shaded and flower festooned walkway between the Eccles and Randall Theater’s on the beautiful Shakespeare Theater grounds. Executive Chef Kevin Jerrold-Jones has put together an original menu of sweet and savory combinations like nothing you have tried before. As you arrive, we will get you started with a glass of dry cider paired with chicken and waffles in a cup. Once everyone is there our hosts will take you to your seats where you will begin the rest of this fun and frolicking culinary journey. Sit down, relax, chat with old friends, and make some new ones, as you enjoy the food of one of Southern Utah’s great chefs, perfectly paired with several outstanding Utah wines from The Hive Winery & Spirits Company, The Vine Yard and I/G Winery.