Vermont Soup Title up for grabs at the 4th
Annual Vermont Life Wine & Harvest
Festival
WILMINGTON -The September 23-25
weekend collaboration between the Mount Snow Valley Chamber of Commerce and
Vermont Life Magazine adds to its list of events a “Welcome to Vermont”
celebration in historic downtown Wilmington featuring tastings
of select Vermont Wines, the new festival Soup Contest, Contra Dance and
Entertainment; incorporating the downtown businesses as well as historic
Memorial Hall, Buzzy Towne Park and the award winning new Bank Park overlooking
the Deerfield River.
The 4th Vermont Life Wine
& Harvest Festival features a tented two day exhibition area of Vermont
Wines, cheeses, specialty food and artisan crafts, chef demonstrations and
entertainers as well as a variety of wine and cheese pairings, dinners and
“Indigenous Vermonter Breakfasts” throughout the valley.
Friday September 23rd
downtown Wilmington businesses will host the soup contest and wine tastings.
The festival soup contest is open to all to enter. Visitors will vote on their
favorite soup. A press
release naming the entry as the winner of the Vermont Life Wine & Harvest Festival
Soup contest will be forwarded to statewide press and featured on the festival
website.
The Wine and
Soup Tasting will take place between 5:30 and 7:30pm. Entertainment will be provided by various performers in selected participating venues.
The 4th Annual Vermont Life Wine & Harvest
Festival occurs September 23-25th 2011 and has been named a Top 10
Vermont Fall event by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce for the second year in a
row and a Top 100 National Event by the American Bus Association.
Soup Contest rules:
All soup must
be delivered to selected venue by
4:30pm 9/23
Soup venues
will be confirmed by Sept 15.
3-gallons per
soup. Please let us know if you need us to supply a crock pot. We will
supply tasting cups and ladles
All recipes
must be original.
Ingredients
and or recipes must be posted with entry in consideration of food allergies.
The soup will
be sampled in small cups without spoons. Please consider this when making soup.
For example large pieces of vegetables may be difficult to get into the cups.
Pick up for
crock pots will be on Saturday 9/25 by 1pm at venues.
There is no
fee to participate; however, a $25 refundable deposit is due upon sign
up. All deposits will be fully refunded to entrants upon delivery of soup
at selected venue.
To enter the
soup contest, or learn about vending at the Vermont Life Wine & Harvest
Festival, contact Patrice Schneider at the
Details on the festival can be found at www.thevermontfestival.com