This year’s festival will include more than 400 wines available for sampling, along with complimentary dishes from local restaurants. It will also feature a Stella Artois Belgian Beer Garden, live music, and a silent auction showcasing fine wines, baskets, travel packages and other experiences donated by local businesses.
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Tickets cost $70 in advance, $75 on the day of the festival, and are available at Carillon Historical Park, both Arrow Wine locations, and online.
The main beneficiary of this year’s festival will be Dayton History, the non-profit organization that operates Carillon Historic Park, although a portion of the proceeds also will be donated to A Special Wish Foundation, Dayton History officials said in a release.
The outdoor wine-and-food festival was founded in 1990 by Heidelberg Distributing Co. and Arrow Wine & Spirits as a charity event benefiting local non-profit organizations. It was held at Carillon Park for a few years following its inception, spent several years at Lincoln Park Civic Commons in Kettering, and returned to Carillon Park in 2001, where it was held through 2014.
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The event assumed the name “Fleurs et Vin” along the way and spent 2015 at Welcome Park near Welcome Stadium in Dayton before returning to its roots for “a new beginning, a new start” last year as “Fleurs de Fete at Carillon Park,” Dayton History President and CEO Brady Kress said in 2016.
For more information, call (937) 293-2841, Ext. 119, or go to fleursdefete.com.
Want to go?
WHAT: Fleurs de Fete wine-and-food festival
WHERE: Carillon Historical Park, 1000 Carillon Blvd., Dayton
HOURS: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 21
INFO: (937) 293-2841, Ext. 119 or fleursdefete.com
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