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``A Taste of Yountville'' Offers up Napa Valley's Best.


Calendar & Travel Editors/Food & Wine Writers

YOUNTVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2002

Yountville's Famed Chefs and Winemakers Come Together for

Annual Mustard Festival Event

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dubbed the "Gourmet Capital of the Napa Valley Napa Valley, Calif.: see under Napa.

Napa Valley

greatest wine-producing region of the United States. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2990]

See : Wine
", Yountville is well known for its great chefs, gourmet restaurants and premium wineries. A Taste of Yountville is the town's Mustard Festival Event that celebrates all the great "tastes" the town has to offer. Surrounded by vineyards bursting with the brilliant yellow of the wild mustard flowers, Yountville will showcase its restaurants, wineries, shops and inns on Saturday, March 23rd, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

The event will feature samplings of fantastic food, delicious wines, olive oils, mustards and microbrew mi·cro·brew  
n.
1. A beer or ale brewed in a microbrewery.

2. See craft beer.
 beers. Lifestyle demonstrations will be presented by retailers, our many galleries will open their doors to visitors, and our inns will welcome guests to their open houses. Live entertainment ranging from cool jazz to hot latin music will fill the air, dance troupes will show off their footwork and face painters and balloon artists will dazzle daz·zle  
v. daz·zled, daz·zling, daz·zles

v.tr.
1. To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light.

2.
 the kids.

A small town with a big reputation for its restaurants, Yountville is home to The French Laundry This article or section reads like a and may need a .
Please help [ to improve this article] to make it in tone and meet Wikipedia's .
; Bistro Jeanty; Bouchon; Cafe Kinyon; Compadres; Domaine Chandon; Frankie; Johnnie & Luigi Too; Gordons; The Napa Valley Grille; Pacific Blues Cafe and Piatti's - most of whom plan to participate in this event.

The newly formed Yountville Appellation ap·pel·la·tion  
n.
1. A name, title, or designation.

2. A protected name under which a wine may be sold, indicating that the grapes used are of a specific kind from a specific district.

3. The act of naming.
 with such wineries as Bell Wine Cellars, Cosentino Winery win·er·y  
n. pl. win·er·ies
An establishment at which wine is made.

Noun 1. winery - distillery where wine is made
wine maker
, Domaine Chandon, Goosecross Cellars and Noah Vineyards will be joined by surrounding Napa Valley vintners to pour tastings of the wines that have made the Napa Valley famous.

Three main venues, all within a two block area on Washington Street The following streets in the United States are called Washington Street:
  • Washington Street (Alexandria), in Alexandria, Virginia
  • Washington Street (Baltimore), in Baltimore, Maryland, running near Johns Hopkins Hospital
, make this an easy event to maneuver. Free shuttle service will be available for off-site parking and transportation around town. Tasting tickets ($1.00 each) and commemorative wine glasses ($5.00 each) will be sold on site. Admission to the event and parking are FREE.

Spring is a beautiful time of year to visit the Napa Valley. The mustard is blooming in the vineyards, the vines are starting to bud and the hot air balloons This article is about hot air balloons themselves. For the associated activity, see Hot air ballooning.

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology, dating back to its invention by the Montgolfier brothers in Annonay,
 are drifting through the morning skies. Whether you want to sample something that tastes good or is just in good taste, you'll find it here. "A Taste of Yountville" is among a number of Napa Valley Mustard Festival events running through April 6, 2002.

For Public Information, call 707-944-0904; www.yountville.com
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