3-713: The Yadkin Valley Wine Festival is an annual wine festival held on the third Saturday of May at Elkin Municipal Park in Elkin, North Carolina . Vineyards in the Yadkin Valley AVA are exclusively featured in this one-day festival. Thirty wineries and vineyards participated in the 2013 festival. The festival began in 2001. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a single fee for those tasting, buying, or consuming festival wine. The fee covers all vendors for
6-580: The end of September and runs until well into October or later. They are common in most wine regions around the world and are to be considered in the tradition of other harvest festivals. The Egyptian god Osiris was dedicated to wine, but the oldest historically documented wine festivals can be traced back to the Greek celebrations for their wine god Dionysos . The typical ingredients of a wine festival include wine drinking, grape pressing, regional foods, music and, in many areas, religious ritual. The grape , and
9-476: The event and includes entertainment. A number of food and non-alcoholic refreshments are provided, as is entertainment. The event is held the 3rd Saturday of May each year at the Elkin Municipal Park in Elkin, North Carolina . Wine festival Annual wine festivals celebrate viticulture and usually occur after the harvest of the grapes which, in the northern hemisphere, generally falls at
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