MidAtlantic Wine + Food Festival 2014 Invitation | Page 19

OF BRUNCHES, , DINNERS ASTINGS Mansion on the Main Line Winemakers Dinner • $500 Casa diTutto Sorrisi MALVERN, PA 6:30PM The “House of Many Smiles” welcomes 1 international, 2 national and 3 regional chefs for 5 courses. Taste vodka, gin, corn whiskey and small number of spirits from the Painted Stave’s limited avant garde collection. 5 courses of game with bourbon + Scotch in 2 architecturally- identical historic mansions. ADDITIONAL TICKET: VIP BOTTLING EXPERIENCE Additional $75 (can only purchase with lunch ticket) 10:30AM Bottle gin and vodka on the distillery’s all-manual production line. Take home a signed bottle of each of their small production Candy Manor Gin and Silver Screen Vodka to take home. Pop-Up Restaurant in Historic New Castle presented by DuPont • $175 Comfort Food Revisited + Craft Beer Lunch presented by labware • $55 The Van Dyke House & The David Finney Inn MONTCHANIN, DE Wilmington Trust Duck creek Spirits + Game Dinner • $250 Sister Historic Mansions SMYRNA, DE 7PM VISA Signature® Gala Winemakers Dinner • $250 The Gold Ballroom, Hotel du Pont WILMINGTON, DE 6PM Set in the Hotel du Pont’s glorious French Neoclassic-style Gold Ballroom, with its gilded rosettes, glittering chandeliers and bas-reliefs of famous women, the VISA Signature® Gala Winemakers Dinner on May 17 features a decadent 5-course dinner prepared by 10 talented chefs and paired with 10 wines from 10 winemakers. the news Journal live Wine Auction The Gold Ballroom, Hotel du Pont WILMINGTON, DE 8PM A taste of heaven in 3 courses The Festival comes to a climax at The News Journal Live Wine Auction. U.S. Senator Chris Coons will be a guest auctioneer at this world-class live auction. The auction will include one lot containing all 100 wines in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2013, as well as one lot of 10 perfect 100-point wines, plus trips to wineries in 6 continents. Take off your shoes! Enjoy 5 courses made by 2 international + 3 beach chefs. Capital One Tasting with the Pros • $55 Winemakers Dinner at the Beach • $250 DoubleTree by Hilton Home of Steve & Kathy McGuinnes Wilmington Trust Winemakers Dinner at Oberod Estate • $500 WILMINGTON DE NEW CASTLE, DE 7PM 8 forward-thinking chefs juxtaposed with a historic inn and a speakeasy, for 7 courses, 14 wines. Winemakers Dinner: Barefoot Black Tie • $200 11:30AM This ain’t your mama’s kitchen: revisit the concept of comfort through 3 courses with beer. Winemakers Lunch in Rehoboth • $55 Eden Restaurant REHOBOTH BEACH, DE Home of Alex Pires DEWEY BEACH, DE Krazy Kat’s 7PM 11:30AM 12:30PM Oberod Estate CENTREVILLE, DE 7PM Return to this elegant chateau country estate for a 5-course dinner, an annual Festival highlight. Pop-Up Food Truck Night Market • $30 Rodney Square WILMINGTON, DE 9PM Sweet + Sticky • $50 Pizza by Elizabeths Mystery Wine Tasting on the Farm • $75 GREENVILLE, DE 3PM Beautifully-made desserts, paired with 4 dessert wines, such as Tokaji, Sauterne + Icewine. American Express 1000 Point Wine Tasting: North • $500 The Green Room, Hotel du Pont saturday, may 17 Taste 10 wines, each of which has received a perfect 100-point rating. The premier wine tasting of MAWFF.  Scrapplegasm™ at Michele’s • $55 Michele’s Restaurant, Dover Downs Hotel & Casino 8AM The defining breakfast meat of the MidAtlantic gets redefined. Served with all the “fixins.”   Scrapplegasm™ at The Green Room • $55 The Green Room, Hotel du Pont WILMINGTON, DE 8AM Wilmington’s grandest brunch is centered around the defining breakfast meat of the MidAtlantic. A Spirited Lunch in Historic Smyrna • $55 Painted Stave Distilling SMYRNA, DE 6:30PM 3 global + 1 national + 2 beach chefs create 5 courses, paired with wine in a private home. Enjoy food truck fare + craft beers under the stars and skyscrapers. DOVER, DE REHOBOTH BEACH, DE This is a primer on wine. 5 visiting winemakers share stories + tasting notes. Light bites. 11:30AM A three-course lunch in the production room of the distillery. WILMINGTON, DE 3PM American Express 1000 Point Wine Tasting: South • $500 Eden Restaurant REHOBOTH BEACH, DE 3PM A flawless 100 points…times 10 wines. A perfect tasting in a heavenly setting. In the Kitchen with David Wine + Dine Weekend Winemakers Dinner • $150 The Barn at Historic Penn Farm NEW CASTLE, DE 6PM Join QVC program hosts David Venable, Sharon Faetsch, and Courtney Cason for a five-course dinner. Celebrity chefs from the Delaware area present courses with specially paired wines. Siena Gold Farm KEMBLESVILLE, PA 7PM A poolside blind tasting with food at an elegant farm with all the fun of an indoor scavenger hunt. sunday, may 18 Capital One Sunday Gospel Brunch • $125 World Cafe Live at The Queen WILMINGTON, DE 11AM Sample dozens of wines + enjoy the 60-member Combined Choir of the Calvary Baptist Church. Sunday Jazz Brunch • $75 Nassau Valley Vineyards LEWES, DE 11AM Sample dozens of wines from around the world and some interesting cocktail creations and taste culinary creations from a dozen area restaurants while meandering in Delaware’s first vineyard and enjoying sultry jazz entertainment. BBQ + Beer Garden • $55 The Rooftop, DoubleTree by Hilton WILMINGTON, DE 2:30PM Sample BBQ classics carefully crafted by local carnivore kings with regional craft beers. BUY TICKETS NOW AT MAWFF.ORG 19 239021 Strongpoint Wine Fest booklet.indd 19 4/2/14 11:57 AM