by Janet Grella
Love continues to ferment at the Poverty Bay Wine Festival this year, in at least two separate instances:
1. Three years to the day that Sales Rep Dominic Calandri (pictured, left) met his wife-to-be Debbie at the festival, they’re getting married.
Dominic’s winery, Five Star Cellars, is in Walla Walla. He claims that it was Five Star’s extraordinary premium wine that brought Debbie to his table, but also reveals that “it was me who had to close the deal on the romance.”
2. If you read The Waterland Blog during our coming out party at last year’s wine fest, you may recall our first “Love Ferments” story about Burien residents Emma Wagner and Al Halvorson, who met two years ago at the fest when Al asked Emma to salsa dance.
We met the two lovebirds last year, who told us their story. They got married last March 14th, and of course dropped by our booth Sunday to let us know they were still happy, still together, and were back again to celebrate. And dance.
Photographer Michael Brunk took some pics of the two dancing at the exact same spot where they first danced in 2008:
A big congratulations to both Al and Emma, as well as Dominic and Debbie from all the folks at The Poverty Bay Wine Festival and your friends at The Waterland Blog – we’ll see you next year, where we’re certain there will be more romantic success stories to share!
Friday night (Mar. 5th) was the opening “A Night in the Vineyard” gala party for this weekend’s Poverty Bay Wine Festival, which continues all weekend at the Landmark Event Center in Des Moines.
Sponsored by the Des Moines Rotary Club, this annual wine festival will run both Saturday (Mar. 6) from Noon – 7pm and Sunday (Mar. 7) from Noon – 5pm at the historic Landmark Event Center (formerly Landmark on the Sound) in Des Moines. Guests will enjoy live jazz and great food while tasting wines from 25 Northwest wineries.
Saturday’s music line-up includes Darren Motamedy and 4th Degree. On Sunday, it’s Rouge and Billet-Deux. Local restaurants and gourmet food vendors will sample breads, cheeses, smoked salmon, chocolates and other fine fare.
Here’s a Photo Slideshow by Michael Brunk of last night’s gala:
Tickets for Saturday and Sunday are just $25 at the door, and includes wine, food and even beer tastings.
Through the Poverty Bay Wine Festival, the Rotary Club of Des Moines has raised over $150,000 in its five-year history. All proceeds fund a wide variety of charitable projects, including college scholarships, grants to local schools, safety and recreation programs for children, yard projects for elderly residents, support for the local food bank and the homeless, and projects to assist needy people as far away as South Africa and Pakistan.
HOURS:
- Saturday, March 6: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
- Sunday March 7: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WINERIES:
- Canyon’s Edge
- Chandler Reach
- Covington Cellars – NEW
- Coyote Canyon Winery – NEW
- Burien’s own E.B. Foote Winery (BTB Advertiser)
- Eaton Hill
- Erin Glenn
- Fall Line
- Five Star Cellars
- Fort Walla Walla Cellars – NEW
- Kestrel – NEW
- Knipprath – NEW
- Masset Winery
- Otis Kenyon
- Page Cellars
- Pondera – NEW
- Sleeping Dog
- Sodo Vino – NEW
- Stina’s Cellar
- Two Vintners – NEW
- Vashon Winery
- Vin du Lac – NEW
- Waving Tree
- Willis Hall
- Windy Point
MUSIC:
- Saturday, March 6:
- 12:30-3:00: Darren Motamedy Duo
- 3:30-6:30: 4th Degree
- Sunday, March 7:
- 12:30-2:30: Rouge
- 3:00-5:00: Billet-Deux
For more information, please visit www.dmrotary.org.
Be sure to drop by and say hi to us – our table is on the first floor on the right just after you go up the ramp!
REMINDER: The 6th Annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival kicks off tonight (Friday, March 5th) with a black-tie “A Night in the Vineyard” gala party starting at 7:30pmat the Landmark Event Center right here in Des Moines.
Gala tickets are $75 in advance or $85 at the door, and include a buffet catered by Anthony’s HomePort, unlimited wine tasting, and live music by the Steve Ryals Trio and Ed Taylor & TaylorMade, plus free admission to the wine tasting event on Saturday or Sunday. Several premium wines and other exclusive items will be offered at a silent auction.
Sponsored by the Des Moines Rotary Club, this annual wine festival will run through Sunday March 7th at the historic and grand Landmark Event Center (formerly Landmark on the Sound) in Des Moines. Guests will enjoy live jazz and great food while tasting wines from 25 Northwest wineries.
“The wine festival gala is the hottest ticket in town,” says Des Moines Rotary President Lisa Meineke. “Everybody has a great time! People come back year after year. And this year we have new wineries and more wineries than ever before.”
The fun continues on Saturday and Sunday, with more wine tasting, food, and live music. Saturday’s music line-up includes Darren Motamedy and 4th Degree. On Sunday, it’s Rouge and Billet-Deux. Local restaurants and gourmet food vendors will sample breads, cheeses, smoked salmon, chocolates and other fine fare.
Tickets for Saturday and Sunday are just $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Gala tickets are $75 in advance or $85 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Corky Cellars in Des Moines (206-824-9462) or at www.dmrotary.org.
Through the Poverty Bay Wine Festival, the Rotary Club of Des Moines has raised over $150,000 in its five-year history. All proceeds fund a wide variety of charitable projects, including college scholarships, grants to local schools, safety and recreation programs for children, yard projects for elderly residents, support for the local food bank and the homeless, and projects to assist needy people as far away as South Africa and Pakistan.
“People can come to the wine festival to have fun and discover some great wines and feel really good about what they are contributing to the community at the same time,” says wine festival chair Brian Snure. “There are so many needs in our community and in our world right now. What better way to give?”
HOURS:
- Saturday, March 6: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
- Sunday March 7: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WINERIES:
- Canyon’s Edge
- Chandler Reach
- Covington Cellars – NEW
- Coyote Canyon Winery – NEW
- Burien’s own E.B. Foote Winery (BTB Advertiser)
- Eaton Hill
- Erin Glenn
- Fall Line
- Five Star Cellars
- Fort Walla Walla Cellars – NEW
- Kestrel – NEW
- Knipprath – NEW
- Masset Winery
- Otis Kenyon
- Page Cellars
- Pondera – NEW
- Sleeping Dog
- Sodo Vino – NEW
- Stina’s Cellar
- Two Vintners – NEW
- Vashon Winery
- Vin du Lac – NEW
- Waving Tree
- Willis Hall
- Windy Point
MUSIC:
- Friday, March 5 (Gala):
- Saturday, March 6:
- 12:30-3:00: Darren Motamedy Duo
- 3:30-6:30: 4th Degree
- Sunday, March 7:
- 12:30-2:30: Rouge
- 3:00-5:00: Billet-Deux
For more information, please visit www.dmrotary.org. We’ll see you there tonight!
Here’s another great reason to attend the upcoming Poverty Bay Wine Festival this coming weekend – a parade of MINI Coopers will end up at the Landmark Event Center on Sunday, March 7th sometime shortly after Noon.
The parade will start at the south end of the Des Moines Marina, where MINIs will congregate at Anthony’s Home Port (421 S. 227th St.) at Noon, then motor on up to the Landmark Event Center and park in the front parking spaces (excluding handicapped, etc.).
As everyone knows, it’s always cool to see one unusual, groovy MINI Cooper. Now imagine 20 or more, all detailed, each unique in its own way, cruising in, parking and showing off.
If you’re a MINI Cooper enthusiast (Publisher/Editor Scott Schaefer drives one), and you’re interested in being in this parade of fun and funky little MINIs, you should consider joining the Puget Sound MINI Motoring Club at their website here.
This will be the second specialty sports car event at the fest – as you may recall, the Tyee Triumph Car Club will be displaying their classic Triumph cars on Saturday, March 6th (read our coverage here).
To buy tickets for the Poverty Bay Wine Festival, click here, or visit CorkyCellars (206-824-9462), Des Moines Drug, and/or purchase directly from any Des Moines Rotary Club member. All proceeds go to the service projects of the Rotary Club of Des Moines.
For more information, including details on wineries, food vendors and entertainment at the fest, read our previous coverage here.
Courtesy Des Moines Photographer Tom Sirgedas comes this slideshow of Sunday’s Poverty Bay Wine Festival:
Photos and Story by Janet Grella
The Poverty Bay Wine festival in Des Moines will be an event not soon forgotten by Burien residents Emma Wagner and Al Halvorson, pictured above.
Al and Emma re-create their first dance at the exact spot where they met at last year's Festival at Landmark on the Sound.
They met here last year at the festival when Al asked Emma to Salsa dance.
One short year later, they’re back at the festival with the big announcement that they’re getting married on March 14th!
A big congratulations Al and Emma from all the folks at The Poverty Bay Wine Festival and your friends at The Waterland Blog!
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The staff of The Waterland Blog will be hanging out all day Sunday at the Poverty Bay Wine Festival demonstrating our website; from left: Bart Bryan, Janet Grella, Scott Schaefer and Mark Neuman. Not pictured: Gina Bourdage.
Sunday’s the last day of this year’s Poverty Bay Wine Festival, a super-fun and tasty fundraiser put together by the Des Moines Rotary Club.
Staffers of The Waterland Blog will be present at a table in the main room near the kitchen, demonstrating our website, doing live updaets and answering questions, so come on down to the beautiful Landmark on the Sound between Noon and 5pm and say hi!
Tickets are available at the door, and for just $25 you get 10 tokens which can be used for wine samples. Parking on site is very limited, but there is free parking and free shuttle service from the Des Moines Marina.
Sunday’s entertainment will be:
- Double Cookin’ (Acoustic Blues)
- Island Jazz Quintet (Jazz)
(for a map to Landmark on the Sound, just scroll down the page to our previous stories…)
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Twenty Northwest wineries will offer tastes at the fifth annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival, with an opening night event Friday, Feb. 27th called “Gala of the Gods” at Des Moines’ historic Landmark On The Sound.
The fest will then run Saturday Feb. 28th and Sunday March 1st, and each winery will offer two to four wines for tasting. The event includes a full slate of live music and free samplings from local restaurants.
Among the wineries pouring tastes will be Willis Hall, one of Washington’s up and coming wineries, and Five Star from Walla Walla. New to the festival this year are Sweet Valley, also from Walla Walla, Vashon Winery, and Masset Winery from one of the region’s fastest growing wine areas, Lake Chelan.
Recognizing that value is top-of-mind for many people in today’s economy, tickets include twice as many tasting tokens this year. An afternoon of wine, food, and live music costs $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Friday’s opening night event will usher in this year’s festival with a Greek theme, and will feature:
- Belly Dancers
- Live music from Takis Dotis and the Mad Greeks
- A Fine Art and Wines Auction
- Anthony’s HomePort will present hors d’oeuvres and dessert buffet.
The evening starts at 7:30pm, it will be a “black tie optional” party, with valet Parking included, and tickets are $75 in advance or $85 at the door. Must be 21 to enter.
This will be one of the public’s last opportunities to attend an event at Landmark On The Sound. This elegant estate overlooking Puget Sound will close for reconstruction this summer and reopen as a private senior living community. The early 20th Century mansion features stunning interiors with classic period details.
Poverty Bay Wine Festival is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Des Moines. All proceeds benefit the charitable projects of the club, which include scholarships, support for the Des Moines Food Bank, grants to local schools, parks improvement, and efforts to assist women in South Africa and Peru.
Tickets are available at Corky Cellars in Des Moines (206-824-9462); Des Moines Drugs, located at 627 South 227th Street; or online at www.dmrotary.org. All proceeds go to local Des Moines Charities.
WHAT: Fifth annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival
WHEN: Opening night is Friday, Feb. 27th, 7:30pm+; also Saturday, Feb. 28, Noon-7pm and Sunday Mar. 1st from Noon-5pm:
- Saturday, March 1st:
Hours: Noon-7pm
Featuring Michael Powers and Mambo Cadillac - Sunday, March 2nd:
Hours: Noon-5pm
Featuring CocoLoco and Global Village
WHERE: All events will be at the historic Landmark On The Sound, which is located at 23660 Marine View Drive South in Des Moines (see map below).
COST: Opening night event is $75 in advance or $85 at the door (must be 21 to enter); Festival admission fee is $20 per person pre-sale or $25 at the door, which includes:
- Souvenir wine glass
- Tokens for wine tastings (certain tastings may require more than one token)
- All proceeds go to local Des Moines Charities
- ID Required at Door
- No Pets Please
- This is an indoor event with free parking and free shuttle service from the Des Moines Marina
TICKETS: You can purchase tickets online by clicking here, or go to Corky Cellars (206) 824-9462, Des Moines Drugs, and through Rotary Club of Des Moines. All proceeds go to local Des Moines Charities.
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