New Jersey's Festival of wine and art returns this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 5, 6, 2007. Frenchtown starts off it's festival season with it's most popular event debuting in it's new spring timeslot.

For $19 paid in advance, you can purchase your tickets online, with your credit card through LocalWineEvents.com, (click image below),

or you can purchase your advance tickets at various local businesses in the area like: Alchemy, Book Garden, Spinnery, Mitchell Williams Realtors, Frenchtown Inn, Beasley's, Cycle Corner and Thistle in Frenchtown. You can also get them at The Ship Inn in Milford and at The Wine Hut in Milford or Frenchtown.

Tickets can also be purchased for $25 the days of the festival. Visitors can taste wines (and beers) at a dozen shops in Frenchtown and the area and sample hors d’œuvres at even more shops featuring art and other wall décor.

Visitors are invited to stay the weekend in one of our area B and B’s and dine in one of our spectacular and highly rated area restaurants…Thai, Mexican, Italian, seafood, continental, classic American, and, bien sûr, FRENCH (oh la la).

For additional festival details and specific information on stores and other participating vendors check back closer to the date at www.frenchtown.com or www.frenchtowner.com.

For more information on the area, call toll free: 866-287-0905 for a visitor’s packet. Wines and beers during the festival are courtesy of The Wine Hut (22 Bridge Street, Frenchtown, NJ), and local beers are also provided by the Ship’s Inn and Brewery (61 Bridge Street, Milford, NJ).

The tasting is sponsored by the Frenchtown NJ Business and Professional Association.

Frenchtown is located in Northwest NJ, across the river from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 90 minutes from New York City or Philadelphia.

This annoucement prepared by Sam Phillips, Vice President of the FBPA and co-owner of the Studio.