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Outdoor Wine Festival This Weekend Showcasing an Ancient Culture
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by Gina Andracchio, Baltimore Outdoor Recreation Examiner
Greetings! If you’re reading this, I thank you very much, but when you get the chance today PLEASE go outside and enjoy this lovely sunny day in Baltimore! It also sounds like we will have a gorgeous spring weekend as well so it’s time to start making plans on what outside events/activities there are to do.
I have a couple plugs to make. Regarding my old neighborhood and parish to which I belong, there will be a Wine Tasting Festival this Sunday April 20, 2008 held outside that you have got to attend. Why you ask? It will feature homemade Italian wine of course (another plug for my heritage in case you did not pick up on my Italian surname). Here are the details for you:
The Highlandtown Community Association and Di Pasquale's Italian Market sponsor the fifth annual Highlandtown Wine Festival celebrating the tradition of home winemaking.
The event, held at Our Lady of Pompei Convent Garden, features a Homemade Wine Competition, Wine Tastings, Bocce Tournament, food and rockabilly music by the Flea Bops. Admission is $20 and includes a souvenir wine glass and five wine tastings.
Tickets are available at Di Pasquale's Italian Market (3700 Gough Street, Baltimore 410-276-6787) and Mastellone Deli & Wine (7212 Harford Road, Baltimore 410-444-5433).
Community Rallies Around Festival — Every year the Highlandtown Wine Festival has inspired community improvement projects. Every year a neighborhood cleanup takes place on consecutive Saturdays before. In the past metal work has been restored and side walks were repaved by a group of local contractors. This year the festivals home gets an update when Petrucci Contracting and an anonymous sponsor repave the Convent Courtyard building a stone feature marking the center of “Highlandtown Wine Country”.
Proceeds from the Highlandtown Wine Festival benefit community projects and improvements.
Bocce Tournament Saturday and Sunday all Day!
For those of you wondering what that word “bocce” means, it is an old game that you might have seen being played on the courts in Little Italy on Stiles Street across from Caesar’s Den. If you were too distracted to follow the game due to the loud arguments between the Italian players, it’s quite an interesting game (click here for the game’s history). And trust me, the arguing makes it oh-so-entertaining!
Also, for those of you fascinated by the Italian culture, visit the organization I took part in building: The Modern Italian Network (founder Matthew Platania) at My.ModernItalian.org
Topics: Bike Riding , Wine Festival , Bocce , Little Italy
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