Take a look at the Palm Springs Food and Wine Festival
The Palm Springs Food and Wine Festival took over the Palm Springs Stadium Pavillion for two days.
Hundreds of locals and travelers attended the 2-day festival to experience food and wine tasting. There was live music and many opportunities to eat gourmet food from the Coachella Valley and beyond.
There were celebrity chefs and wine connoisseurs demonstrations moderated by some of your local favorites like KESQ Meteorologist Patrick Evans, DAP Health Chief of Brand Marketing Steven Hanke, and more.
The event gave locals and travelers a chance to get to know boutique winemakers and their stories.
Winemaker Jose Hernandez was once an astronaut. He says while he was in space, he daydreamed of returning home -- to embrace the land's beauty. "When you orbit the earth, you can see the U.S., you can see California, you can see that great valley, San Joaquin Valley, and said, that's home," says Jose Hernandez. "One day, I'm going to go over there, be a farmer, and then make my own wine."
He made that dream a reality as he was promoting Tierra Luna Cellars at the festival. He shared his wine and his movie A Million Miles Away, starring Michael Peña, with all of the festivalgoers.
A festival goer says he attends food and wine events throughout Southern California, but he enjoys that there are events like this in his hometown. "When you bring in different wineries from all across the country, and you're able to experience something that is fun and unique and different, but also keep the local flavor profile relevant", says a local, Don Maselli. "It really brings together a nice blend of everything."
Maselli says the festival allowed him to get to know boutique wine owners and their stories, like Elizabeth Talley, whose family business started with her great grandfather. She is now a part of the fourth generation to run the family business. "My great grandfather started planting vegetables actually in the San Luis Obispo coast region in Arroyo Grande 75 years ago," says Talley. And then my grandfather started our winery started planting wine grapes about 40 years ago. And then my father took over, and I've been helping my father" run the Talley Vineyards.
