Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festival
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The annual Kendall-Jackson(R) Heirloom Tomato Festival returns on Saturday, September 26, for the season's most anticipated event showcasing Sonoma County's bounty. Now in its 19th year, the Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festival is a full-day event featuring more than 150 varieties of heirloom tomatoes (grown in the Kendall-Jackson culinary gardens); a chef competition featuring Bravo's Top Chef contenders; and tomato-inspired dishes from nearly 50 prominent wine country and Bay Area restaurant chefs and food purveyors. Guests will also enjoy wine tasting, live music and educational wine and garden seminars.
The popular Chef Challenge includes Justin Wangler, executive chef at Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Gardens, as well as competitors from Bravo's Top Chef. The chefs will be whipping up masterpieces featuring heirloom tomato varieties and a basket of mystery ingredients, all paired with Kendall-Jackson wines.
Ceres Community Project is the beneficiary of the event and will have representatives at the festival educating guests on its mission to build healthy communities by restoring fresh, whole and organic food as the foundation of wellness and healing. Ceres' volunteer chefs prepared 88,000 free and low-cost meals in 2014 for hundreds of Sonoma and Marin county families facing a health crisis such as cancer.
Guests at the 2015 Tomato Festival can discover the Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Garden's recently expanded culinary and sensory gardens. Culinary gardener Tucker Taylor will lead educational tours throughout the day to reveal the captivating garden transformation, including an exploration of the garden's wide variety of specialty produce and beautiful design enhancements.
General admission tickets: $95; Premier Access Tickets: $175.
Presented by Kendall-Jackson