Hilton Food & Wine Experience XII: Win two tickets, an overnight stay, breakfast
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The only thing better than spending seven hours sampling from among hundreds of wines – as well as chocolate, coffee, beer, and more – at the Beijing Hilton Food & Wine Experience would be to then stumble, stagger, crawl – what have you – up to a room afterward. Alack and alas, that is beyond the budget at Chez Boyce, but one reader will get such a treat. Once again, I am holding a contest and the winner gets two tickets to this November 14 event (1 PM to 8 PM), an overnight stay at The Beijing Hilton (valid only for that night), and breakfast the next morning at Elements.
Last year, I asked people to choose one person with whom they would like to share a bottle of wine. This year, I am asking people to write about a good wine experience they have had in Beijing.
The contest closes on Monday Tuesday at 5 PM; I’ll announce the winner the next day. Even if you don’t win, try to make the Food & Wine Experience, celebrating its twelfth year – it is hard to beat a full day of gluttony, which includes a buffet, for RMB200.
For more details on the event, see here. I’ll also soon have an interview with the Hilton’s head sommelier, Julia Zhu.
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See also:
2006: The year I tried 52 wines and lost my cell phone
2007: The year I attended a seminar with Jeremy Oliver and later accidentally broke a bottle of Shiraz on the Hilton’s marble staircase
- Are you experienced? Hilton’s tenth annual wine event (2007)
- Wrap up: The Hilton food and wine experience (2007)
2008: The year Yiftach Bar described a Louis Latour Chardonnay as a “white wine with balls.”
- Eat, drink, and stay contest: Win Food & Wine Experience tickets, a deluxe room, and breakfast at the Hilton (2008)
- Hilton Food & Wine Experience: And the winners are… (2008)
- The Hilton food and wine experience: ten thoughts (2008)
Great shakes? Enter the Absolut Cocktail Competition, December 4 at Zeta
Spirit It and Absolut vodka will team up with City Weekend and Zeta bar in the Hilton Beijing for a cocktail competition on December 4. The first round is slated for 5 PM and will decide the ten finalists for a showdown at 9 PM. If you want to try to stir, shake, and strain yourself to victory, contact Bob Louison at bobariels@gmail.com for more information or to register (the fee is RMB50). For those who prefer the safety of the bar stool, Zeta will be having a happy hour from 6 to 9 PM that day. For the final round, from 9 PM, the entry fee is RMB120, and includes three drinks and the chance to sample the top three cocktails.
