Theme Team Contest: Win two wine fair tickets, dinner, overnight stay and breakfast at Hilton Beijing
Update: The Beijing Hilton has picked the winners. Check them out here.
Update: Simon Amos and his team at the Hilton Beijing have picked the winners and I will have all the details tomorrow morning (August 25). Expect a few surprises.
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- Last year’s theme: ‘Vindulgence’ (photo: Hilton Beijing)
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I have gone to the annual Hilton Beijing Food and Wine Experience every year since 2005 and consider it my best chance to try lots of wines — over 1000 options — from lots of distributors. As in the past, I am running a contest with the hotel. We are asking readers to create a theme for this year’s event — last year’s was ‘vindulgence‘ — slated for November 12. Director of Operations Simon Amos and his team will pick the winner*. The winner gets:
- Two tickets to the Food and Wine Experience
- Two tickets to the buffet dinner at Elements
- An overnight stay
- Two tickets for buffet breakfast the next day
Also, anyone who suggests a theme will be entered into a draw for two pairs of tickets, including buffet dinner in Elements. So, two ways to win: with the best slogan or via the draw.
To enter, leave your theme suggestion in the comments section (I am claiming “Grape Expectations” and “Pinot Envy” right off and thus taking them out of play). You can enter up to three times but please put each suggestion as a separate comment. The deadline is next Friday, August 19, at 3 PM.
* The winning slogan will not necessarily be used for this year’s event.
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Here are a couple of posts about Hilton wine fairs past, including the year I tried 52 wines and lost my phone (not necessarily related) and the year I accidentally broke a bottle of Shiraz on the Hilton’s marble staircase (not my fault).
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Grape Expectations. (Please, can we have a ten-year moratorium on wine stories using this as a title?)
Expect the Oenexpected
Vintopia
(Oh yeah, I went there, even though I can’t win.)
I claim Tres Uvas. @vagarumbeando
The Grape Leap Forward
The Perfect Cork
“Pull My Cork”…you can see where this is going.
c’est la vin!
Vinology
Vino Voyages
Grape Wall of China
VInfamous
The Grape Rapture
“A Day of Wine and Roses”
“Tour de Vin – a walk down the Grape Lane”
Nir-Vina, Uncorked
Wine-ification or Winification The Hilton Beijing turning us all into wine fanatic one bottle at a time.
Hilton Beijing Presents: Wine-ism or Winism
“Pleasure for the mind, body, spirit and soul”
“A wine for any time”
the grape escape
The “After 4pm Its All Kinda A Blur” Drinkorama
the grape cat’s pee
VinDiesel xXx 2Fast4Furious
what time should I come by to pick up my prize package?
stop wining the lot of you
Come on you lot!!!….were gonna need more than this……I’ll see if I can upgrade the winner to the Presidential suite with in room Champagne breakfast!!!!! Simon. Email me for tickets or supplier participation at simon.amos@hilton.com
1.wines gratify you…instantly
2 vinredemption
Vino Nobile
vinophoria
Be A Vinopolitan ” Embrace wines and foods from around the world”
“Ye Olde Wine Festival ” only catch is we need to dress up like its a renaissance festival and use words like “Flagon”….plus Sting can bust out some minstrel tunes
“Wine is fine, but, whiskeys quicker ” fair…….a heavy metal themed wine fair….black sabbath fans know what im talking about
The Grape Escape…….featuring boyce on a CJ 750 jumping a kiddy pool of Merlot and a 3 foot tiger shark
my friend passed out in the bathroom last year
Vintageous
Fortified fervor
Hi Mr Boyce, Hi Mr Amos.
After deeply thinking about it, here are some of my ideas for the event.
Only the words, because we don’t know yet what kind of artwork it will be linked to.
1°/ ( need to write it on two lines) :
In the Mood for Wine
— by Hilton –
Hi again, here my second one :
2°/ ( still on two lines, for a kind of visual impact..)
WinException
— by Hilton –
Hi again! and the third one..
3°/
So Wine ! Savour it…
— by Hilton–
( on this one, english way, not american, for savour, and not savor, also to keep it close to the french and latin origin, in order to catch the spirit linked to those drops of god)
Bye!
I am fine, this is wine!
The Beijing Hilton presents Pútaó Pleasures
ChardonnYAY!
@ Sarahplusone,
That is WAY too close to reality.
Cheers, Boyce
@ Jake,
Let’s hold off for a second. It’s possibly, even if remarkably remote, that a better entry might come in…
Cheers, Boyce
@ mr. brau,
I like plan C, except that sharks go more for cabernets than merlots…
Cheers, Boyce
@ Belinda,
“Fortified Fervor” would work well with the earlier idea of “Grape Leap Forward.”
Cheers, Boyce
I just googled “In Vino Veritas Chinese” and found this page. If these aren’t a bad tattoo waiting to happen.
http://www.words-chinese.com/symbols/_in-vino-veritas.htm
It’s my party, I’ll wine if I want to.
The Beijing Hilton Food and Wine Experience presents- Decanted Decadence.
Vintage Encounters of the Grape Kind.
Cellarbration
Shirazzle-dazzle
Decanterlicious
Beijing Bacchanalia
Mr Boyce, first entry:
1.) Opulent Encounters
2.) A Perfect Season – A evening with this season’s best foods and wines.
3.) Bountiful Grandeur
*cue Louis Amstrong soundtrack*
What a Wine-derful World
Life is Short, Grape it
Very good all….keep them coming……..;0)))
“Oenophile, See No Evil”
“Grapeling with Destiny”
Get Jeroboamed in the Jing…
“It doesn’t matter whether the grape is red or white, as long as it produces wine.”
- Deng Xiaoping
Night of Terroir
Vin-dicated: An Day (or Evening) to Remember
Vintwined…
Vindetta. And on the poster are two sexy women armed with bottles of wine!
Rise of the Planet of the Grapes
Serial Grapist
Relaxed and Wined
Oenorgasmic!
Vinpire!*
*free entry for those dressed in re-cycled Halloween vampire gear
“Vin My Heart” – Love in a bottle, ready to pour and swirl
Terroirists Unite
Varietal Lust
I know I’m only allowed one more so I am dropping:
Wine, ah! Over 8000 years of history.
In favour of a night of wild deer, wild bison and wild moose served with fine red wine called:
Gamey Winehouse
Pútaó Noir
VINtastic!
Dude, Where’s My Wine
Your Vine or Mine?
VINtasia
See Vino, Hear Vino, Speak Vino
Intertwined: Make the Perfect Pairing
Thank God It’s Vinday