Festival expanding to toast food as well as wine

BOULDER — Five years ago, the Boulder Burgundy Festival was a smaller gathering of mostly food and wine industry professionals who celebrated what they love.

Since then, it has expanded to become a Boulder community event, and its growth is but one symptom of Boulder’s expanding food and drink industry, said Brett Zimmerman, a master sommelier, owner of Boulder Wine Merchant and the festival’s founder.

At the festival’s inception, its founders chose to focus on wines from the Burgundy region of France because of their traditional inaccessibility. Some top-quality chateaus in Burgundy produce only from 50…