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Mystic Seaport Wine and Food Festival

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Noon - 5 p.m.

Taste different award-winning wines from some of Connecticut's top wineries. Listen to light jazz by the Andy Wrba Quartet from the gazebo on the green Friday through Sunday, from 1 - 5 p.m. while enjoying an especially prepared menu which includes seafood, grilled fare and a variety of desserts prepared from products of local and regional farms.

Local and regional farmers, fishermen and vintners, will offer culinary tastings, cooking presentations and create food and wine parings at the Viking Celebrity Kitchen Stage. Additionally, visitors can sample award-winning wines, attend educational wine seminars and watch food symposiums on the Village Green.

Eight of Connecticut's leading wineries and one brewery will offer samples and glasses of award-winning wines and beer for purchase.

The featured vineyards and brewery include:

A Riverside Grill-on-the-Green will feature a specially prepared menu of seafood, grilled fare and a variety of desserts prepared from products of local and regional farms for purchase. Fresh lobster, jumbo shrimp, oysters and clams will be available for purchase at a raw bar set up in the Museum's Thomas Oyster House (Map #6). Be sure to see the visiting Noank Oyster boat Mrs. M docked at our Thomas Oyster House. Visitors will have the option to ship their seafood purchases worldwide.

Featured local farms and products include:

• Beaver Brook Farm from Old Lyme (lamb, cow and sheep cheeses)

• Bomster Scallops from the Stonington Borough (scallops)

• Beltane Farms from Lisbon (goat cheese)

• Cato Corner Farm from Colchester (cow's milk cheese)

• Footsteps Farm from Stonington (Tamworth hogs, pastured poultry, bourbon red turkeys)

• Four Mile River Farm from Old Lyme (Angus beef and eggs)

• Grossman's Seafood from Mystic (lobster and fresh fish)

• Noank Aquaculture Cooperative from Noank Village (oysters and littlenecks)

Museum admission is required to attend the festival. Visitors can validate their ticket and return to the festival for a second consecutive day free of charge. Cost of food and wine is additional.

Sponsorship for the Mystic Seaport Wine & Food Festival is provided by:

Enjoy our own Mystic Seaport Wine! The limited-edition Buttersworth Sangiovese is available at Cask 'n Keg, our preferred distributor, located just a short distance from our gates here in Mystic.