The inaugural Sun Valley Food and Wine Festival will be held June 8-10, 2007 and is sure to be a hit with all of the epicurean delights and award-winning libations found in Sun Valley, Idaho that weekend.

Guests can come to Sun Valley before the crowds get here and after the spring showers are gone. This is the perfect time to treat the palette with fine wine and delectable food. ResortQuest Sun Valley offers a number of Sun Valley lodging packages for this special weekend. ResortQuest has the largest variety of Sun Valley vacation rentals, from hotel rooms, to 3 bedroom condominiums, to 5 bedroom luxury homes. The properties that are represented are in several different locations in the valley and offer a variety of amenities to suit your needs and desires.

The Sun Valley Food and Wine Festival weekend activities include seminars, cooking classes, special guest chefs and wine pairings.

The weekend will also feature keynote speaker Jim Harrison, author of The Raw & The Cooked, named one of Saveur magazine's top food memoirs of all time. Weekend festival passes begin at $250 per person. There will be a limited number of Epicurious VIP passes for $350 that include a VIP reception with Jim Harrison and preferred seating at the seminars.

Jim Harrison was born and raised in Michigan and is the author of five volumes of novellas, including The Summer He Didn't Die, and Legends of the Fall, nine previous novels including Returning to Earth and The Road Home, eight collections of poetry, and three works of nonfiction, the memoir Off to the Side and the collections Just Before Dark and The Raw and The Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand, chosen by Saveur magazine as one of the best food memoirs of all time. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grand and a Guggenheim Fellowship, his work has been published in twenty-seven languages. Jim Harrison divides his time between Montana and Arizona

The conclusion of the weekend will consist of the Sun Valley/Ketchum Grand Tasting at the Elkhorn Resort Club House, featuring libations and catered delicacies from throughout the Sun Valley resort region.

About ResortQuest
ResortQuest, one of the nation's leading vacation rental management and resort real estate companies, provides a one-stop resource for North America's premier resort destinations, ResortQuest.com. ResortQuest is the largest marketer and management company of vacation condominiums and leading vacation rentals in the U.S. and Canada, based on a portfolio of nearly 17,000 properties with a combined real estate value estimated at approximately $7 billion. ResortQuest Real Estate is one of the nation's leading real estate companies, focusing exclusively on resort properties, offering superior brokerage services in the country's premier beach, ski and golf destinations. ResortQuest employs more than 4,000 people and is owned and operated by Gaylord Entertainment Co. (NYSE: GET), one of the largest and fastest growing companies in the hospitality and entertainment industries, based in Nashville, Tenn., that also owns and operates Gaylord Hotels and the Grand Ole Opry. For more information, visit ResortQuest.com or GaylordEntertainment.com.

Contact: Samuel Bell, ResortQuest Sun Valley, 800-371-9180

Published by: John Ellis