The Sun WineFest '12 & Ticket Giveaway
Amy Kundrat
The Sun WineFest 2012 is a destination weekend for food lovers in the tri-state area who descend on the Mohegun Sun Convention Center for a fabulous line-up of food and wine-filled events beginning Friday, January 27 through Sunday, January 29, 2012. Tickets are still available and we are pleased to be able to offer a pair of tickets to one lucky CTbites readers for Sunday's Grand Tasting.
Here's how to enter. The folks at the festival have generously given us a pair of tickets to Sunday's Grand Tasting Event. So if you are up for a road trip and feeling lucky, simply comment on this post and share with us what you are most looking forward to if you are to attend the WineFest '12. We will select one lucky winner by Monday, January 20 at 4 pm who will receive a pair of free tickets to Sunday's Grand Tasting event on January 29 from 12 noon to 5 pm.
The Grand Tasting features over 1,000 brands of beer, wine and specialty spirits as well as as signature dishes from the region's most highly rated restaurants. The Main Culinary Stage is the backdrop for two days of celebrity chef demonstrations, including Food Network stars Bobby Flay, Iron Chef Marc Forgione, Donatella Arpaia and Robert Irvine, along with fun-filled contests - Mohegan Sun WineFest Grape Stomp presented by Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka and Oyster Open presented by Bud Light Lime. Throughout the weekend there is an impressive lineup of wine and beer experts hosting seminars intimate private-dining restaurant settings throughout Mohegan Sun (separate ticket required). For a full listing of events and personalities who will attending, from Bourbon tastings to the Bon Bon bash and Todd English to Bobby Flay, visit Mohegun Sun WineFest's website for tickets and more information.
Reader Comments (39)
a few of my favorite chefs...and a few i would love to meet.
Ciroc Winefest Grape stomp, beer and wine tasting, and eating some of the best foods paired with the best drinks prepared by the best chefs ever!
Bubbles & Bon Bons rocks my socks!
Tasting wine and dishes from the best restaurants in the region? I'm in!
definitely the grape stomp!
The international cheese selection!
Watching the chef demonstrations, Oyster Open and WineFest Grape Stomp (which I hope to get a team togther to enter someday!!) while enjoying some delish wine and beer tastings. They would be a great break from my crazy work week!!
While I know I would just be in heaven over the grape stomp or the oyster open, (we are getting a new Oyster Bar in town!!!) I would love to see the plating and presentation going on in such a highly trafficked event- we all know the food is going to be amazing! Did you read the line up!!!!... oh and the wine won't be to shabby too! :)
would love to get to sun winefest this year and see the oyster open, the chefs and samples some awesome wines!!
I would love to see these Top Foodie's try to impress me; at the Sun Wine Fest 2012! Hope I get my wish! Thx!
Wining and dining with amazing talents and fellow foodies!
This would be a great surprise gift for My Fancy, the consummate food and wine lover and passionate "cocktalian". Plus, he is mesmerized by Robert Irvine's Restaurant Impossible. Getting to spend a day immersed in all he enjoys would be great, even if it means I "have" to tag along. :)
Great food! Awesome Chefs! Amazing Wine! Why would anyone NOT want to go!
It is my birthday and the grape stomp would be fantastic!!
I'm looking forward to the bourbon tasting, watching the grape stomp, and swooning over Govind Armstrong. I mean his cooking! Swooning over his cooking!
Would love to go to the WineFest to see Bobby Flay. Love watching his show on TV!
I'm a huge foodie and I wish I could be professionally trained one day! I would truly love to see some live demonstrations and actually try the amazing food I watch these chefs cook on the food network all the time. Red wine, beer and good food are some of my favorite things in life! Pick me!!! :)
Since this would be my first time attending the wine fest, if I won, I would enjoy every aspect of the event. Meeting the chefs, tasting the foods & pairing them with the wines, etc. Just the experience in itself would be worth bragging about!
I have almost pulled the trigger on this event every time its come around, some good wine, food and Bobby Flay would be a great day.
I love food. I love events & parties. Like to drink wine too. So why would I want to miss this? And I've never been to Mohegan Sun. So that would be a great way to discover it!
I have to pick just one??? Twist my arm, but I'm hoping to turn my husband into a budding foodie like myself, and this would be just the event to do it!
Amazing wine—Vodka and Oysters— You cant miss!
I would give the tickets to my parent's since it's their Wedding Anniversary next week. Plus, both my parent's love to cook and entertain, so this would be a nice surprise for them.
I am a Foodie! Need I say more?!!!
Hope to be the lucky winner.
-Fairfield County Foodie
I want to pair all those good foods with eine to learn what to fo for my next dinner party!!! Oooh so exciting!