Keyways
Vineyard & Winery and Ponte Family Estate Winery
Kick Off Eye-Catching Holiday Light Festival
TEMECULA,
Calif., Nov. 17, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Keyways
Vineyard & Winery and Ponte Family Estate
Winery are helping to brighten up everyone's holidays.
Starting
Nov. 29 the wineries will host the Temeculights
Holiday Festival, a spectacular month-long celebration
that includes more than 200,000 LED (light emitting diode) lights
that stretch over rooftops and vineyards and provide more than
14 miles of low-wattage visual excitement.
Open
every evening from 6 to 9 p.m., Keyways Winery
will host a Cowboy Christmas with hay rides
through the vineyards, shopping, music, dessert, coffee, cocoa,
Christmas card crafts for the kids and Keyways award-winning
wine.
Ponte
Winery will be open for the event every Friday, Saturday
and Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. including the Monday
and Tuesday before Christmas Eve. It will offer hay rides through
the vineyards, a buffet dinner at the Smokehouse Restaurant,
holiday music, wine tasting, holiday shopping, hot cider, coffee,
cocoa and complimentary cookie decorating for the kids. The
dinner buffet will be available all night and is $15 for adults
and $5 for children 12 and under, children 3 and under are free.
Hay
rides at both wineries are $10 per person and $5 for
children 12 and under. Lap riders are free. Families get 10
percent off hay rides on Fridays, seniors get 10 percent off
hay rides on Sundays and all adults get 25 percent off hay ride
tickets at the second winery if you visit both wineries and
present a receipt.
Both
wineries hope all of Wine Country will embrace Temeculights
in the years to come as an eco-friendly holiday event that promotes
awareness about alternative lighting methods.
To
make Temeculights possible, Keyways and Ponte have partnered
with The Green Lights Project, an Arizona-based
firm that put on Red Rock Fantasy, a two-month-long, nationally
recognized holiday festival of lights that attracted more than
250,000 people each year to Sedona.
Keyways
Vineyard & Winery sits on about 13 acres at the
confluence of the 2,000-acre Valle de los Caballos -- Valley
of the Horses -- and the southern tier of Temecula's Wine Country
at 37338 DePortola Road. From the 15 freeway, head out Highway
79 South/Temecula Parkway toward Indio, turn left on Anza Road
and right on DePortola Road for about 2 miles. The tasting room
is open daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. during December. For more information
call (951) 302-7888 or go to www.KeywaysWine.com
Ponte Winery is located at 35053 Rancho California
Road and is open for tastings daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Restaurant
service is offered daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and for brunch
on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with lunch from 2 p.m. to 5
p.m. For more information call (951) 694-8855 or go to www.pontewinery.com