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"Sunset at Surf City" - A Wine & Food Faire (A Fundraiser for Second Harvest Food Bank)

Join the Surf City Vintners for the “Sunset at Surf City” Food & Wine Faire Dinner Market on August 18

Wine and Dine in Sustainable Style in the Urban Outdoors --A Benefit for Second Harvest Food BankTo Fund 9600 Food for Children Meals in Santa Cruz County     

Wine and dine outdoors in sustainable style at the Surf City Vintners’ “Sunset at Surf City, A Food & Wine Faire” on the Westside of Santa Cruz on Saturday, August 18, 2012.

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It's a dinner market. It's an urban picnic. It's a community banquet, and will feature local food vendors; the wineries of the Surf City Vintners pouring their wines; and live music with the Cabrillo Jazz All Stars. Food and wine will be sold by each vendor; there is no additional entry fee. Guests are encouraged to bring their own plates, utensils and wine glasses in support of sustainable practices.

Where: in the parking lot near Copious Winery and Equinox at 427 Swift Street, from 5:00-8:00.

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Surf City Vintners is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank with the goal to raise funds from this event for 9600 meals for children in Santa Cruz County who may not be getting regular meals while they are out of school this summer. Monetary donations are encouraged to help meet this goal for the Food for Children campaign.

Local culinary purveyors providing dinner options include: Cruz’n Gourmet food truck, Café Iveta, H&H Fresh Fish, True Olive Connection, Thai Orchid, and more

 

About the Surf City Vintners: The Surf City Vintners group of 13 boutique wineries and tasting rooms offers a vibrant urban wine tasting experience. The individual wineries are in close proximity on the Westside of Santa Cruz on Ingalls Street, Swift Street, and the Old Sash Mill, most in renovated warehouse spaces. The area has become a hip example of urban renewal. The wineries showcase the wines of a group of leading winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and are small, family-owned and operated local businesses. Visitors often meet and talk directly with the winemakers. The Surf City Vintners wineries include:  Bonny Doon Vineyard; Copious Winery; Equinox Champagne Cellar; MJA Vineyards; Odonata Wines; Rexford Winery; Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard (including Quinta Cruz); Silver Mountain; Sones Cellars; Storrs Winery and Vineyards; Trout Gulch Vineyards; Vino Tabi, Wargin Wines.

For more information, see the group website at www.surfcityvintners.com.

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