Sheffield Wine Week: Outdoor 'wine week' festival announces line-up including food, music, family activities

This year’s Wine Week Fest, at Sheffield’s Bole Hill Recreation Ground, will have vendors, live music and even family-friendly activities like crafting and face painting.

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It is the second year in a row the event will be hosted in the steel city, with plans to make this year’s bigger and better than before.

Now, organisers have been able to reveal the first wave of participants for the upcoming event - which will take place from 1pm to 9pm on June 21.

The event will include local wine retailers Gills and Co, Elm, Tenaya, and The Old Shoe; wineries English Wine Project and Henners; importers Ally and Naturally Wines; and wholesalers Wanderlust and Enotria.

Food stalls include The Taco Trailer, Cheese and Friends, and Fennell’s Ice Cream.

Attendees can expect more than 20 food and drink vendors all together, including options beyond wine.

Tenaya owner and Sheffield Wine Week co-founder Virginia Myers said: “This year we are very excited to be hosting our very own feature event - Wine Week Fest - at one of Sheffield’s great parks, Bole Hill.

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“The aim is to bring the wine industry in Sheffield and beyond together along with the city's wine drinkers for a relaxed day out at the park.

“It will be a great opportunity to try new wines, eat good food, learn more about wine and relax as a community in a beautiful outdoor space.

“We can't wait.”

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