Beverage Seminar – Thelema Mountain Vineyards – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Thelema Mountain Vineyards – Stellenbosch, South Africa Thomas Webb, Winemaker Chardonnay, Mountain Red, Cabernet Sauvignon October 8, 2012

Thelema Chardonnay, Mountain Red, and Cabernet Sauvignon

We had not tried Thelema Mountain Wines before, for some reason when we were making our choices for this year’s Food & Wine Festival – we sort of

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Tequila Lunch – La Hacienda, Mexico Pavilion – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Tequila Lunch Pairing La Hacienda de San Angel October 5, 2012

We attended this event last year with Al, Judy, and Al’s Big Sister – we enjoyed it immensely and therefore wanted to do it again this year. As with last year (here), we waited until it was our turn to enter the lobby (they

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Culinary Demonstration – Chefs de France – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Laurent Carillion, Chefs de France, France Pavilion, Epcot October 4, 2012

 

Pam Smith and Chef Laurent Carillion

Wine: Chateau Trocard, Montrepos – Bordeaux B&B’s French Wine Club

Bob Perkins and his friend, Bill, are the B&B of B&B’s French Wine Club. How did it get started? Someone gave Bob a wine tasting

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China Booth – Mongolian Beef Bun – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

A nice mix of textures

Mongolian Beef with Chinese Steamed Bun

The steamed bun was soft and slightly sweet. There wasn’t as much beef or sauce as we expected (based on Eating WDW review here), but what was there tasted nice. The onions and the grilled green onion added some needed texture.

On

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Culinary Demonstration – Cat Cora – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Cat Cora, Kouzzina(r) by Cat Cora, Disney’s BoardWalk Inn October 2, 2012

Wine: Brampton UnWooded Chardonnay Alistair Glen, DCG, Western Cape, South Africa

This wine comes from one of a number of vineyards that the company has and is a “fabulous food wine because it’s unwooded.” The current vintage in the US is 2011,

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Beverage Seminar – Spice Route – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Spice Route Wines, Swartland, South Africa Chenin Blanc, Pinotage, and Chakalaka October 2, 2012

Chenin Blanc, Pinotage, and Chakalaka

We’ve had all of these Spice Route wines before; at Jiko with Lisa and Andy (Chakalaka), at a culinary demonstration during last year’s Epcot Food & Wine Festival (Pinotage, here), and just two days

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Culinary Demonstration – Kevin Dundon – Raglan Road™ Irish Pub and Restaurant, Downtown Disney – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Culinary Demonstration – Kevin Dundon – Raglan Road™ Irish Pub and Restaurant, Downtown Disney (plus a lot of other famous chef stuff including Dunbroddy House in Ireland, we so want to visit there) October 2, 2012

Amy Meddins (wine), John Ekin (host), Chef Kevin Dundon (fabulous cook), and Sharon (helpful assistant)

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Culinary Demonstration – POSH Salt™ – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 Culinary Demonstration – Alisa Malavenda, POSH Salt™, Cliffside Park, New Jersey October 1, 2012

Laura Castelli, Pam Smith, and Chef Alisa Malavenda

First off, we need to start with how delightful and engaging the trio was this evening… (Pam Smith from WDW, Alisa Malavenda a private

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Culinary Demonstration – Yachtsman Steakhouse – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 Culinary Demonstration – Michael Gonsalves – Yachtsman Steakhouse, Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club October 1, 2012

Chef Michael (L) is explaining how they make the sausages using a “stuffer”

Wine: Domaine Skouras St George Ted Diamantis, President, Diamond Importers (Greece)

Ted from Diamond Importers

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Mixology – The Edrington Group – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 The Edrington Group (Speyside, Scotland); Randolph Adams, Brand Ambassador September 30, 2012

Things that are different this year

(there was no Edrington Group demonstration last year, we wrote quite a bit about the experience in 2010 (here) and will try to limit repetition in this post)

The

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