The weekend ahead: Carrefour Wine Fair, BYOG, Halloween, and more
Wine lovers have two excellent choices this Friday:
The Shuangjing Carrefour store (map) holds its fall wine fair from 6 PM to midnight with hundreds of bottles to sample. Most of them are entry-level and this offers a chance to find and stock up on “house” wine, especially as most products have a 20 percent discount.
Tip: BYOG. At the spring wine fair, I brought my own wine glasses – 22-ounce Bordeaux beauties – which meant I didn’t have to use the store’s puny goblets or, even worse, plastic cups. See these posts on previous Carrefour wine fairs:
- Spring 2009: Carrefour spring wine fair: Glasses, deals, and labels with animals galore
- Fall 2008: Carrefour wine fair picks: Southern exposure
- Spring 2008: By / buy the case: Carrefour 2008 April Wine Fair
Meanwhile, Sequoia Cafe (map) will hold a tasting of Grace Vineyard and Silver Heights at 6:30 PM. If I had to make a list of my ten favorite Chinese wines, these two producers would take half of the spots. There will be five wines available for tasting for RMB100, good value if you consider it would cost over RMB1000 to buy a bottle of each. For more details on the wines, see this post on sibling blog Grape Wall of China.
Friday will also see a dinner that teams the culinary talents of Albert Adria from Spain’s elBulli, Da Dong from the Beijing duck chain of the same name, and Brian McKenna of Roombmk, the organizer of the event. If you don’t already have a ticket, good luck: Two weeks ago, McKenna told me he already had 9,000 requests.
Finally, Saturday is Halloween – see this list of two dozen parties. You can keep the trick or treat feeling going on Sunday by randomly mystery dim sum at China World Hotel: Summer Palace (map) has an all-you-can-eat buffet from 2 PM to 4 PM for RMB98 plus 15 percent. RSVP at 6505-2266, extension 34 or 6505-5838. (The hotel press release adds: “In order to avail of this special weekend dim sum offer, the bill needs to be settled and paid in full before 4:00 pm.”).
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