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Beijing Hilton Food & Wine Experience: Win tickets, overnight stay

Posted on | November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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By Jim Boyce

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. To enter, you need to leave the comment on this post at sibling site, beijingboyce.com. You also, obviously, need to be in Beijing.

The contest closes on 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

2008: The year Yiftach Bar described a Louis Latour Chardonnay as a “white wine with balls.”

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