Over 1,000 wine aficionados attended the sixth annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival, tasting wine, sampling the food and raising money for a good cause.
All of the proceeds go to support different the charitable causes and projects of the Des Moines Rotary, who organize the event every year. Over the past five years the Poverty Bay Wine Festival has raised over $150,000, over $100,000 of which has gone toward local education in the form of scholarships and the Rotary’s project to get every third grader in Des Moines schools a dictionary.

25 Northwest Wineries participated in the event, including nine wineries new to the festival this year.
Organizers said attendance was up from last year.

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