FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno State hosted the fourth annual Whole Vine Festival on Saturday to honor grape growers in the San Joaquin Valley.<\/p>\n
The San Joaquin Valley grows table grapes, raisin grapes, and wine grapes side by side.<\/p>\n
Nearly every raisin in America is grown within about 60 miles of Fresno, and 99% of the country’s commercially grown table grapes come from California.<\/p>\n
Visitors got a chance to learn about the featured Valley grape farmers.<\/p>\n
Steve Reitz, a raisin growerGeorge Rodriguez, a table grape growerNick and Brian Davis, wine grape growersRandy Kazarian, a wine grape growerAlbert and Maurice Smith, raisin growers.<\/p>\n
Guests got a chance to participate in a wine tasting.<\/p>\n
The wine was made by Fresno State students, who earned four gold medals in 2026.<\/p>\n
Live music was performed by We Got The Beat, the University High School Jazz Ensemble, Matthew Malcolm, Super Sonic, and In Kahootz.<\/p>\n
Food trucks competed in a cook-off to see who could make the best grape-themed dish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno State hosted the fourth annual Whole Vine Festival on Saturday to honor grape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-506941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}