An afternoon of tasting wine and chocolate under the shade trees and canopies at Memorial Park in Hennessey should be on your calendar Saturday, Sept. 21, from 1-6 p.m.

That’s what the planners of the ninth annual Wine & Chocolate Festival say and they also boast about plenty of free parking and their shuttle service.

Hennessey’s Main Street festival is sponsored and conducted by the Hennessey United Association civic group in cooperation with the Oklahoma Grape Industry Council.

Contacts are Wes Hardin (wine: 405-853-0115) and Teresa Oliver (chocolate: 405-368-8741).

Independent judges will decide these vendor awards: Champion and Reserve Champion Dry and Sweet, and for chocolatiers, Best Sweet Tooth Booth.

Tickets

Gate admission is $20 per person and includes a souvenir wine tasting glass with payment by credit card, check or cash. Visitors must be 21 and show an ID at the gate to get a wine wrist band.

Pre-sale tickets are $15 each and must be purchased before midnight Sept. 20 at hennessseywineandchocolate.com , Hennessey Town Hall, or Vernost Wine Co. in Hennessey.

Chocolate-only tickets are $5 each at the gate and pre-sale.

Location

Memorial Park is located near 300 N. Main St. in Hennessey. It’s on U.S. 81 18 miles south of Enid; 18 miles north of Kingfisher; 34 miles west of the I-35 Stillwater exit; 45 miles northwest of Edmond; 52 miles northwest of Oklahoma City on the Northwest Expressway, and from Tulsa it’s about 100 miles on S.H. 51.

Wine Vendors

Signed up for wine booths are Entwined Vines Winery, Anadarko; Tidewater Winery, Drumright; Wildhorse Canyon Farms, Luther; Arribin Hills Winery, Owasso; Pecan Creek Winery, Muskogee; Stable Ridge Winery, Stroud; Native Spirits Winery, Norman; Blossom Winery, Marlow, and Johnester Vineyard & Winery, Kingfisher.

Hennessey wine vendors are Turner-Me-On Winery (Curtis Turner); Vernost Wine Co. (Wes, Dagan and Zach Hardin), and Stubborn Bull Wine (Steve Clements).

Chocolate Tables

If chocolate is your sweet of choice then you’ll have these tables to choose from: Mama’s Sweet Rolls, Enid; Dizzy Lizzy Cupcakery, Okarche; Cory Caroline, Tulsa; Red Ridge Creamery, Lahoma, and Sweet and Sassy Treats, Okeene/ Hennessey. Also from Hennessey are Eat It Up Bakery and Takery, Hawk’s Cakes and DC Trailers/4-H.

Ribeye Sandwiches

Hennessey Volunteer Firefighters will have ribeye steaks on the grill and sell a sandwich, chips and bottle of water for $10. Water only is $1.