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Best DC-area food and drink festivals this summer

WASHINGTON — Whether it’s crabs you crave or wine you want, chances are, there’s a festival to fit your food fixations.

Here are some of the best food and drink festivals in the area this summer. Some are close by, others require a quick road trip.

36th Annual Vintage Virginia Wine Festival
June 3 and 4, Centreville, Virginia  Don’t have the time to visit all the established and emerging wineries in the Commonwealth? Sample several in one spot at the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival. Sip on small pours, purchase your favorite bottles and relax to live music. There will even be activities for young ones. (AP/Chris Tilley)
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Beer enthusiasts joined Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione and Samuel Adams’ Jim Koch to uncork SAVOR Flowers. The ale was aged in Jim’s original extreme beer barrel, Barrel One, and brewed with lavender, hibiscus, jasmine, distilled rosewater, and a newly-discovered hop breed, Friday, June 3, 2011, in Washington. (Nick Wass/AP Images for Dogfish Head and Samuel Adams)
MIAMI BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 22:  Riedel Wine Glass on the display at Wine Spectator Wine Seminar "Blending The Rules" Featuring JUSTIN & Landmark Vineyards during the 2015 Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by FOOD & WINE at the Miami Beach Convention Center on February 22, 2015 in Miami Beach, Florida.  (Photo by Carlos Barrios/Getty Images For SOBEWFF)

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