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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Wine and Food Fest: Sunday Fair photos
TOP LEFT: At the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival’s Sunday Fair, the Salt Lick served hundred of pounds of sausage and brisket. By midafternoon, the Salt Lick’s Shane Griffith was feeling the effects of an afternoon of nonstop slicing.
TOP RIGHT: Celebrity chef Damian Mandola wasn’t shy about drawing attention by shouting “sausage and peppers!” at the booth where Mandola’s Italian Market was handing out food samples and tastes of sangiovese and zinfandel from Mandola Estate Winery.
CENTER: Austin professional rocker and cooking enthusiast Patrice Pike, left, and professional chef and rock enthusiast Paul Petersen were charming, casual and smart-alecky during their rib-cooking demonstration.
(American-Statesman photos by Mike Sutter)
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Wine and Food Fest: From vine to vino
Former professional football player Alphonse Dotson (above, with his wife, Martha Cervantes-Dotson) is good at growing grapes. His crops from Certenberg Vineyards in Voca, 80 miles northwest of Austin, have contributed to the acclaim earned by Texas’ Fall Creek Vineyards.
But at the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival’s Sunday Fair in Driftwood, Dotson said he’s also trying his hand at making wine. Dotson said that in June he and his wife, Martha Cervantes-Dotson, hope to release Gotas D’Oro (“Drops of Gold”), a white wine blended with late-harvest moscato grapes and a “mystery grape” to create a semi-sweet blend that’s “bold, but not too aggressive.”
The fair, which drew about 3,000 people to sample wine and specialty foods at the Vineyards at the Salt Lick in Driftwood, was the final event of the four-day festival.
(American-Statesman photo by Mike Sutter)
