Guest Chefs, Texas Wineries and Texas Specialty Booths
… Taste Texas at its finest!

Pl ans are underway for our 19th Annual Fredericksburg Food and Wine Fest, Saturday, October 24, 2009. The Fredericksburg Food and Wine Fest features the best of Texas wines, food, and entertainment. Over seventy exhibitors vie for attention from discriminating gourmets and oenophiles.

We will feature over 50 Texas Specialty booths showcasing, sampling and selling candies to olive oil, spices, jams, beef, lamb, herbs, jams, jellies, rubs, salsas, as well as other gift items such as Texas lavender and soap products. Plus we expect over 25 Texas wineries. This will give our guests an opportunity to sample over 100 varieties of Texas wine.

FREDERICKSBURG, TX --- With the holidays approaching, the City of Fredericksburg has announced its newest holiday event, the St. Nikolaus Markt – a fun-filled festival highlighting this city’s German heritage with plenty of Gemütlichkeit, German treats, music, and beer! Held the first Friday and Saturday in December at the Fredericksburg Marktplatz, the event kicks off the holiday season in grand style while introducing visitors to the City’s vibrant array of new holiday decorations, including the 26-foot Christmas Pyramid.

Built in Germany to Fredericksburg’s specifications, the 5-tiered, wooden Christmas Pyramid rises twentysix feet with each tier decorated with a different theme. Tier one depicts the nativity scene; tier two, carolers; tier three, nutcrackers; tier four, Santas, and tier five, angels. The rotating pyramid will also be decorated with lighted candles for a beautiful display. Skilled craftsmen in Erzgebirge, Germany manufacture these internationally collected Christmas pyramids, which in their smaller, table-top forms, are staples for most German holiday decorations.

Freder icksburg is currently the only municipality in the United States to have an outdoor pyramid of this grand scale – 26-feet.