So my friend Meg and I put our food and wine loving heads together on Saturday night and created an ice wine cocktail to enter into a very cool contest. The winner of the cocktail contest receives two free tickets to attend the NY State Ice Wine Festival this Saturday at the beautiful Casa Larga winery overlooking their gorgeous vineyards.
(Don’t know what ice wine is? Read about it here.)
The festival will feature delectable ice wine tastings from excellent wineries all across upstate New York’s finger lakes wine region, a nice variety of fun and informative wine seminars to attend, tours of the wonderful winery, a bunch of great vendors including Moonlight Creamery, Muranda Cheese Co., Tocoti Chocolate, Stella and Dot, and The Pampered Chef, and – best of all – original and savory gourmet ice wine inspired recipes to indulge in including radicchio & arugula salad with toasted almonds and raspberry ice wine vinaigrette, pulled pork sliders with mango chipotle ice wine glaze, roasted butternut squash ice wine infused soup, ice wine cheese fondue with baguettes, farfalle with pancetta, leeks and wild mushrooms in an ice wine cream sauce, fire and ice wine s’mores, and iced apricot filled cupcakes with vidal buttercream frosting.
Clearly, this is a foodie’s paradise and I want to be there!!
To help us win those tickets please click this link, then click on “Festival Details” to the right, followed by “The Contest” and finally click “Vote” to vote for our creation – the Pear Weather Friend! You do need to have a FaceBook account to do this, and you can vote for us once a day through Thursday, February 14th!
Thanks all! :)
{Wine tasting at Casa Larga in the fall}
