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Coffee & Chocolate Festival comes to Maitland Heritage Mall

THE MAITLAND AROMA FESTIVAL is a coffee, chocolate and fine food affair to be held in at the Maitland Heritage Mall on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 August 2010.

The festival aims to ward off the winter chill with the best local coffee roasters; a delectable range of chocolates and mouth watering desserts; Hunter wineries offering tastings of the finest dessert wines, fortified wines and gutsy reds; and a wide range of local cuisine and fresh produce stalls with all sorts of tasty morsels on offer.

Great music of the jazz, blues, folk and soul variety will be played live from two stages, and a DJ spilling out lounge beats will feature at the chill out Chai Tent.

Other Festival activities include:

·        Coffee making demonstrations

·        Chocolate demonstrations

·        A Barista competition with many great prizes

·        Fine food especially desserts and cheeses

·        Classic High Teas (HOSTED BY VOGUE EVENTS) to be conducted on the 'Festival Village Green'

·        Wine Master Classes, including food and wine matching particularly dessert and fortified wines

·        Guided historic walking tours of Maitland’s heritage conducted by the "Maitland Historical Society" or by horse & carriage

·        Period Costume Fashion Parade presented by the “Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles”

·        Boutique Fashion parades by local Speciality Fashion Houses

·        Town Criers to keep you informed of all festival activities

·        Street theatre and much more!