Raise your glasses to the NSW Wine Festival!

Now in its sixth year, the 2013 NSW Wine Festival returns to celebrate the state’s award-winning wines and outstanding wine regions. Taking place from February 22 to March 31, this year’s festival will uncork the best in NSW wine, with a five week-long celebration involving leading local and regional restaurants, bars and artisan food producers from across NSW.

The festival kicks off with Sydney Cellar Door in Hyde Park, where visitors can wine, dine and enjoy more than 90 of the state’s finest food and wine producers. Extended this year to include Friday night, the event will see wine aficionados and novices alike taste their way across NSW, discovering the range and depth of the state’s wine making without leaving the city.

The Tour of the Regions Dinners is a series of specially created dinners at select Sydney and regional restaurants. These intimate events offer attendees the chance to meet the chefs and winemakers, learning the tricks of the trade and what makes the NSW wine industry so unique.

Sydney’s best bars get in on the action with NSW Wine of the Month and NSW Wine Flight of the Month (new for 2013), offering a stellar line-up of wines paired with bar snacks throughout the duration of the festival, starting at $15.

The state’s best restaurants will host Dine with NSW Wine, offering food lovers a perfectly matched lunch or dinner dish paired with a NSW wine, starting at just $30. And for those with a sweet tooth, Sticky and Sweet (new for 2013) will offer a delectable dessert and matching wine at selected venues across the city.

Finally, NSW Wine will host a takeover of the Pyrmont Growers’ Market offering guided tastings and food matching with a selection of winemakers.

President of NSW Wine, David Lowe, said: “The NSW Wine Festival is a great opportunity for us to showcase what our state has to offer and gives us a chance to demonstrate why NSW is one of the top wine growing regions in the world.”

Festival Director, Joanna Savill said: “With a hugely eclectic and varied wine-making community and some of the finest local produce Australia has to offer, this year’s NSW Wine Festival will bring together the best of the best in a series of entertaining, insightful and relaxed events.”

Full festival details are available on nswwinefestival.com.au. The full program will be published online and in The Sydney Morning Herald on February 12.

The NSW Wine Festival is a partnership with the NSW Wine Industry Association and brought to you by Citibank.

Facebook: www.facebook.com.au/nswwinefestival, Twitter: www.twitter.com/NSWwinefestival, website: www.nswwinefestival.com.au

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