Mississippi’s largest wine and food event, The MIND Center Santé South Food and Wine Festival, presented by Trustmark, returns to Ridgeland Saturday, May 6th!
At its new location of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, the event’s larger footprint will feature more vendors than ever. Attendees can sample wines from around the world paired with food from the state’s top restaurants. Santé South affords a rare opportunity for guests to speak directly with boutique winemakers and vote on a new Taste of the South competition.
This culinary showcase for a good cause benefits Alzheimer’s disease research and clinical care. Founded by Norm Rush of Beaumad & Associates, the annual event benefits the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and has helped to raise over $1 million to advance the delivery of Alzheimer’s care and support services, educational programming, and research in Mississippi. The MIND Center uses pioneering research, state-of-the
-art brain imaging and powerful genetic technologies to discover the causes and fine new methods of treatment and prevention for Alzheimer’s and other dementias, which affect over 6 million Americans.
Tickets are available for purchase online, by phone at (601) 292-7121, or in person at the Ardenland box office in Jackson. The ticket price includes entrance to the festival where guests can sample more over 120 exceptional wines and fine food samplings from many of Mississippi’s top restaurants as well as take home a signature festival wine glass.
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