16th Annual Santa Fe Wine Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas

Celebrate the wines of New Mexico at a historic southwest ranch! Discover the delicious blends of today’s vintners at the Santa Fe Wine Festival, where you can sample and purchase varietals from 16 New Mexico wineries in a festive atmosphere with live music, food, traditional agricultural products and handmade arts and crafts for sale.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the “Ranch of the Swallows,” is a unique setting, offering a one-of-a-kind experience for you and your family. A 200-acre Spanish colonial living history museum, Las Golondrinas boasts 34 buildings, historical fields and waterways, friendly animals and costumed villagers who bring our state’s past to life!

WHAT:
Santa Fe Wine Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

WHEN:
Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, 2009 from Noon to 6 pm

WHO:
These great New Mexico wineries will be present:

• Anasazi Fields Winery
• Black Mesa Winery
• Blue Teal Vineyards
• Corrales Winery
• DH Lescombes
• Gruet Winery
• Guadalupe Vineyards
• Luna Rossa Winery
• Matheson Vineyards & Winery
• Milagro Vineyards
• Ponderosa Valley Vineyards
• Santa Fe Vineyards
• St. Clair Winery
• Tierra Encantada Vineyards
• Tularosa Vineyards
• Wines of the San Juan

WHERE:
El Rancho de las Golondrinas Living History Museum, just south of Santa Fe. Exit 276 off I-25 from Santa Fe, exit 271 from Albuquerque (exit 276B from Albuquerque is temporarily closed). Follow “Las Golondrinas” and “Wine Festival” signs.

HOW MUCH:
Admission is $13 for adults 21 and over (includes a festival wine glass) and $5 for youth 13-20. Under 13 admitted free of charge.

ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE:

Saturday, July 4

12:00 – 2:30 pm: MARIACHI NUEVO MEXICO

3:00-5:30 pm: COMBO SPECIAL featuring Joan Griffen (Blues, Boogie Woogie)

Sunday, July 5

12:00 – 2:30 pm: THE SUSAN ABOD TRIO (Blues, Jazz, Standards)

3:00-5:30 pm: LA JUNTA (Latin Funk, Hip-Hop, Reggae)

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit www.santafewinefestival.com or call 505-471-2261.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas is the premier living history museum of the southwest, whose purpose is to preserve the typical northern New Mexico landscape with farms and villages and their inhabitants’ lifestyle from the early Spanish colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century.