What: Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival
Where: Chaddsford Winery 632 Baltimore Pike Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 19317 (map)
When: September 4–6 from 12 p.m.–6 p.m
And jazz have gone together ever since Miles Davis poured a bottle of pinot noir down the bell of his trumpet and blew it into the open mouth of Dizzy Gillespie. Simmer to grooves of wine-inspired jazz with today’s Groupon: for $12, you get one admission to the Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival at the Chaddsford Winery, running September 4–6 from 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
With tastings of Chaddsford Winery’s award-winning wines and performances from jazz bands, the Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival promises to be a jubilant holiday-weekend jaunt. Sample Chaddsford’s full lineup of grapen goodness in a complimentary souvenir wine glass. The winery’s crisp, dry whites will playfully pique palates, while the wide array of dry reds whets wine appetites with classy merlot, cabernet, and due rossi. Founded in 1982, Chaddsford Winery is cultivated by founders Eric and Lee Miller, who have a combined 60 years of experience in enology, viticulture, and the study of smashing champagne bottles onto doomed ocean liners.
At least two jazz bands are scheduled for each day, so you can nod and blink to the Budesa Brothers Trio (Saturday, 3:30 p.m.) or the world jazz beats of Siora (Monday, 3:30 p.m.). Food will be available from Pace One Restaurant, but guests are encouraged to bring their Batman Returns blanket and picnic in the serene Chester County countryside.
While you’re out that way, be sure to head over to Avondale to visit Va La Vineyards, southeastern Pennsylvania’s best kept wine secret and easily among PA’s best wineries. Go for the premium tasting (upstairs) so you can try their flagship white, La Prima Donna, and flagship red, Mahogany.
Comment by ibyron — September 6, 2010 @ 1:17 am