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BottleRock Napa Valley Features Ultimate Culinary Experience Wine Country’s Best in Food, Wine and Craft Brews to be Offered During Festival

April 11, 2013, Napa, CA – As BottleRock Napa Valley delivers the best in music and comedy through an incredible who’s who lineup, its food, wine and beer offerings will also strike a chord with attendees. Iconic Napa Valley chefs and restaurateurs such as Cindy Pawlcyn, Masaharu Morimoto, Todd Humphries, and Ken Frank will share the culinary stage with superstar vintners like Silver Oak, Miner Family, Rombauer, and St. Supery, along with artisan beers and micro-brews. Offering a culinary festival experience second to none, BottleRock has tapped the Cindy Pawlcyn Napa Valley team including managing partner Sean Knight to manage the culinary effort and establish BottleRock as having the ultimate food and wine experience.

Situated on four stages spread over 26 acres on the grounds at the Napa Valley Expo in the City of Napa, more than three dozen chefs and restaurateurs will join more than 50 wineries and artisan brewers during the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley May 9 - 12. Food purveyors including Mustards Grill, Morimoto, Kitchen Door, La Toque, Oenotri, ZuZu, Grace’s Table, The Girl & the Fig, Azzurro Pizzeria and Enoteca, Tra Vigne, Fish Story, Farmstead, The Model Bakery, C Casa, Barbers Q, and Gott’s Roadside, will be paired with some of the finest wines in the world, such as Grgich Hills, Beaulieu Vineyard, Hahn Family Wines, Ceja Vineyards, Flora Springs, Freemark Abbey, Sterling Vineyards, Acacia, and Regusci Winery. Coupled with beers and craft brews such as Bud Light, Sierra Nevada, Gordon Biersch, Hangar 24, Speakeasy, Goose Island and Napa Smith, BottleRock Napa Valley provides the very best to quench attendees’ thirsts and whet appetites.

“We can’t throw a music festival in the Napa Valley without providing great food, wine and brews,” stated festival founder Bob Vogt of WillPower Entertainment. “Napa Valley is known far and wide for extraordinary wine with a dining reputation to match, and BottleRock Napa Valley will absolutely reflect that culinary scene. It’s another feature that we feel will define BottleRock as a one of the most engaging music festivals anywhere.”

"We are thrilled to be involved with what is destined to be Napa Valley's preeminent event combining world-class musical talent with delicious Napa food and wine," says culinary partner Cindy Pawlcyn. "BottleRock is such a natural extension of the valley's hospitality and talent, the surprise here is that it hasn't been done before."

In addition to the carefully curated cuisine, BottleRock Napa Valley features an incredible lineup of more than 80 artists, bands and performers, including; , , , Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Jane’s Addiction, The Shins, The Avett Brothers, Train, , The Black Crowes, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Cake, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, Primus, Alabama Shakes, Jackson Browne, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, along with America’s hottest comics such as Jim Gaffigan, Demetri Martin, Aasif Mandvi, Anthony Jeselnik, Tig Notaro, Jim Breuer, Greg Behrendt, Wyatt Cenac, Rob Delaney, Kristen Schaal, Bill Burr, J Chris Newberg, and Natasha Leggero. The complete festival lineup can be found at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com.

Festival passes are on sale now and begin at $139 for a single day pass, $329 for a 3-day pass, $399 for a 4-day pass, and $599 for 4-day VIP passes. Passes are on sale at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com.

More information can be found at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Bottle Rock Napa Valley, or follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BottleRockNapa, #bottlerocknapavalley.

About Cindy Pawlcyn Napa Valley Cindy Pawlcyn Napa Valley is best known for the delicious seasonal, globally-inspired wine country comfort food and gracious service at their three Napa Valley restaurants - Mustards Grill (celebrating 30 years), Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen, and Cindy Pawlcyn's Wood Grill & Wine Bar. The group also serves as the culinary partner for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, with Cindy’s Waterfront restaurant opening immediately prior to the BottleRock festival. Cindy’s reputation for catering, combined with Sean’s expertise with large-scale music and sporting events have made Cindy Pawlcyn Napa Valley the ideal culinary partner for the festival.

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