 When: Jan 21 - Jan 30, 2005
Since Mendocino County was founded in the 1850's, our rugged coastline has been home of fishermen and their families harvesting the bounty of our cold clear Pacific Ocean.
Here's a quick sampling of what you have in store. Click "Event Highlights" at the top of the page for a more detailed overview, then check out the "Daily Calendar of Events" for the more than 100 activities we've organized for you.
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Meet the Fishermen
This year we will celebrate our sixth Crab and Wine Days honoring our fishing families-and the star of the show-Dungeness Crab! Meet the seagoing men and women who harvest the crabs.
Our captains invite you to join them on Crab Cruises, Whale Watching, Fishing Trips and Sunset Cruises. Jump aboard on scheduled cruises every day leaving out of Noyo Harbor next to Fort Bragg.
Learn From Our Local Chefs
Dozens of local chefs line up to show you their secrets with our cold-water denizens. Learn traditional and exciting new recipe ideas-and sample some knock-your-rubber-boots off crab dishes prepared by regional masters.
Local chefs with join with winemakers and brewmasters to share their knowledge of matching crab with wine and beer at winemaker and brewmaster dinners during the Festival.
Cooking Classes will also occur almost every day.
Crab Specials grace breakfast, lunch and dinner menus of participating restaurants.
Mendocino Wine
Winemaker dinners, a special barrel tasting at inland wineries on the first weekend of the Festival, crab appetizers in tasting rooms, winery passports, annual "best crab wine" competition.
Get your Passport stamped when you visit tasting rooms in our 3 winemaking regions and on the coast. Click to see a map of our "Wine Loop Tour". You can win a weekend getaway to the Mendocino Coast or other great prizes. The more stamps you collect, the better your chance of winning. Pick up passports at any participating winery tasting room or lodging establishment, at Chambers of Commerce, or call toll free 1-866-466-3636 (1-866 goMendo), or email Passports.
4th Annual Crab Cake and Crab Wine Competition
January 29, 1:30 - 3:30PM Who makes the best crabcakes in Mendocino County? Which winery has the best "crab wine"? You the people get to vote as well as a distinguished panel of culinary and wine professionals.
Benefit for Mendocino Coast Clinics. In the tent in Noyo Harbor. $45 in advance, $50 at the door (if there's room!) 707-961-3431.
Crab Out!!!
But no group of crab lovers can get together without the quintessential crab lover's experience-CRAB FEEDS. Grab into the all you can eat piles of crab.
Visit our Festival Highlights page or click here for a list of "Crab Feeds"
Special Events
Enjoy several special historical and cultural events during the Festival, several with Crab and Mendocino Wine. Visit historic lighthouse, dinner at the caberet, outrageous "mardi gras" like carnival, our own local symphonic orchestra, and more.
Visit our Festival Highlights page or click here for a list of "Special Events"
Win a Fabulous Culinary Weekend for 10!
The "Mendo Wine Tours" stretch limo will pick your party up in Mendocino Village and carry you in style to your private dinner destination - Handley Cellars in Anderson Valley. Milla Handley will host your private tour and tasting after which you will be treated to an elegant dinner featuring the North Coast cuisine of Chef Alan Kantor of MacCallum House Restaurant.
After dinner your limo will carry you back to the Village for a nightcap, and then on to the five luxury inns around Mendocino Village each hosting a couple in your party for a 2-night stay.
Enter the drawing to win this wonderful treat. Tickets $25 each, 5 for $100, 10 for $175 at participating businesses during the Wine and Mushroom Fest and January's Crab and Wine Days. Drawing on Jan. 29 at the Crab Cake Cookoff (you don't need to be present to win, but with these crab cakes, why wouldn't you?) Or call toll free 1-866-466-3636 (1-866 goMendo), or email Culinary Weekend.
Click here to see a Weekend Poster. (You need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
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