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For an upcoming festival that begins next week, you won t need your camp chair, your koozie or any sunscreen, but you will need reservations. For the sixth year now, the Maison Dupuy Hotel is hosting the French Quarter Wine Festival , a nine-week series of wine dinners held in conjunction with its restaurant , Le Meritage .
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The event is modeled after the Boston Wine Festival , where dinners are held in a pair of waterfront restaurants including Meritage , the forerunner and sibling to our local Le Meritage. The same event organizers also produce the Berkeley Wine Festival in California and the Capital Wine Festival in Washington, D.C.
The French discount hotels in san diego Quarter Wine Festival begins next Friday, March 2, with a grand opening reception that will feature dozens of wines from vineyards participating in this year s festival series, along with a buffet and performances by the Rebirth Brass Band and Los Po-Boy-Citos. The event, to be held block-party style on Burgundy Street by the hotel and inside its courtyard, begins at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $75.
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