5th Annual Savory Grape Fall Wine Festival Brings In Corporate Sponsors, Popular Auction Items and Sought-After Wines
EAST GREENWICH, RHODE ISLAND – Tickets are still available for this weekend’s 5th Annual Savory Grape Fall Wine Festival featuring small batch, limited production, boutique wines. On Saturday, November 5th, guests will have an opportunity to taste from more than 60 wines only available in small quantities, highly rated by international wine writers, and sought by avid collectors.
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The annual event has drawn sold out crowds seeking holiday wine ideas and to experience some of the best wine the world offers including the 2005 Argiolas Turriga (rated 93 points) and 2007 Robert Keenan Cabernet Sauvignon (rated 92 points).
Sponsors to date include Gencorp Insurance Group, East Greenwich Spine & Sport, Adler Pollock & Sheehan, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, and Braver PC Accountants and Advisors, the Law Office of James E. Smith, and Petteruti Bariatric Medicine.
The festival each year provides thousands of dollars to two of Rhode Island’s humanitarian nonprofit organizations: the Rhode Island Community Food Bank (RICFB) and the Rhode Island Community Action Association (RICAA). This year’s event will benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, a statewide nonprofit organization that provides food to needy children and families and promotes solutions to the hunger crisis in Rhode Island.
The event will be held from 6-9pm at The Dorrance at 60 Dorrance Street in Providence. Live and silent auction items include donations by Swarovski, Gracie’s, Siena Restaurant, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Dave’s Marketplace, and Cafe Nuovo, plus trips to vineyards, sporting tickets and collectible wines. Live music will be performed by The Karn Duo.
Tickets are $75 per person. Call 401-886-9463 (WINE) or email jessica@thesavorygrape.com.
About The Savory Grape Wine Shop (www.thesavorygrape.com)
The Savory Grape is one of the premier wine shops and online stores in Rhode Island. Its 1,700 square-foot shop carries a unique array of wine, craft brews and specialty spirits, not often found in other stores. A staff wine connoisseur, beer lover or scotch enthusiast is always on hand to assist with customer selection. The shop affords customers a chance to learn about their favorite wine – its taste, smell and characteristics – and choose from a vast international selection. The shop’s level of personal service, look and feel and carefully-selected inventory arranged in a customer-friendly manner make the shop a regular national destination- just like a favorite bookstore.
In 2010, The Savory Grape’s Jessica Granatiero received the 40 Under 40 award by Providence Business News which honors the region’s most successful people under 40 years of age. She was also featured in the September 7, 2009 issue of Providence Business News. The Savory Grape is featured in the June 27, 2009 edition of The Wall Street Journal wine column on “Getting Help With Wine Choices” and has been mentioned as “Outstanding Wine Shop” by Wine Spectator Magazine (Jan/Feb 2009). The shop won the 2007-2011 Best Wine Shop – West Bay (Reader’s Poll), 2007 Best Wine Newsletter (Editor’s Poll), 2006 Best New Wine Shop (Editor’s Poll) awards through Rhode Island Monthly. Owner Jessica Granatiero is a regular editorial contributor on wine to East Greenwich Magazine.
