Garden State Wine Growers Association to Host
“Jazz It Up Wine & Food Festival” at Allaire Village
Saturday and Sunday September 4 & 5 • 12 PM – 5 PM
Admission $20 Per Person
Allaire State Park $5 Per Car Parking Fee Charged Memorial Day to Labor Day

“Jazz It Up Wine & Food Festival”, New Jersey (statewide)…Spend Labor Day weekend soaking up history, listening to great jazz and sipping New Jersey wine. Come on outside, with The Garden State Wine Growers Association (GSWGA), a member organization of 34 wineries located across the state, as they present the third wine festival of their five festival season which runs from May through mid-October and garners more than 20,000 visitors.

“Jazz It Up Wine & Food Festival” was formerly held at historic Waterloo Village in Northern New Jersey. When that site closed, the Garden State Wine Growers Association decided to move the annual event to the ideally located Allaire Village (www.allairevillage.org). In a melding of new and old, guests of the wine festival can also access the historic village and gain a better understanding of life in an early 19th Century Industrial Iron Producing Community. The Trades Shops where the master craftsmen and their apprentices practice their arts will be open too. People can stroll along the tree lined streets and stop in at the Manager's House where Mrs. Smith and her daughters demonstrate the domestic skills of the time or pay a call on the Allaire Home and see how an affluent family of the period lived. In addition to artisan vendors who are participating in the wine festival, the onsite Howell Works Company Store Museum and Gift Shop and the Howell Works Bakery will also be open. The Historic Village at Allaire is on the National and State Registries of Historic Places.

The “Jazz It Up Food & Wine Festival” will feature hundreds of award-winning New Jersey wines and an array of great food. Artisan vendors and crafters will be selling hand made products, wine related items and other quality goods. There will be kids activities including arts & crafts, face painting and games. Discount advance sale tickets are available online at www.newjerseywines.com and group discounts are available by calling the Wine Line at 609-588-0085. 

New Jersey has been producing wine since 1864. While perhaps not as well-known as other wine-producing states, New Jersey is home to many premiere varieties. Award-winning Chardonnay, Syrah, Marechal Foch, Viognier, Traminette, Merlot, Cabernet and dozens of others are produced right here. And, particularly unique to New Jersey wineries are an array of fruit wines such as raspberry, cherry and blueberry, which are exported by some New Jersey wineries all over the world. Because of the climate and conditions of the state, New Jersey wines are most often compared by viticulturists and enologists to the wines of France and Italy.
From Cape May County up to the northern most tip of Sussex County, New Jersey wineries offer more than 200 varieties of wine.

The Garden State Wine Growers welcome consumers from New Jersey as well as tourists to attend the “Jazz It Up Food and Wine Festival”. It’s a great way to sample and purchase the range of excellent New Jersey wine, enjoy great music and spend the weekend outdoors. For more information on New Jersey wines, visit www.newjerseywines.com.