2011 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival, Entrance Topiary

What is Disney doing? Did you see the topiary at the entrance to the festival this year? Do you remember a couple of years back how awesome the pirate ship with Peter Pan, Captain Hook, et al was? What about the one where the Fab 5 are at the beach – a theme which carried

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Disney’s Holiday D-Lights Tour Review – 2010

In addition to the Yuletide Fantasy Tour (backstage, review here), we went on the Holiday D-Lights Tour. This is a “new” tour, offered for the first time in 2009… as such, we weren’t at all sure of what would be happening or if we would enjoy it a little bit or a whole lot. We

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2010 Disney’s Yuletide Fantasy Tour – A Review

Today we went on the Disney’s Yuletide Fantasy Tour (official description below), our overall experience closely matches what has been reported on allearsnet.com (here).

Take a delightful journey behind the scenes to see how Walt Disney World Resort is transformed into an international holiday wonderland. Get an in-depth look into the diverse holiday traditions and

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Epcot Food & Wine 2010 – Bunratty Mead and Liquor Co. Ltd

Who: Nancy Larkin

What: Bunratty Mead, Bunratty Potcheene, and O’Maras Irish Cream

When: Saturday, November 13, 2010

This was our last Food & Wine event for 2010 – unfortunately, it would end on a sour note… This was the worst beverage seminar we attended, for many reasons…

the presenter droned on and

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Epcot Food & Wine 2010 – Kevin Dundon

Food Who: Kevin Dundon from Raglan Road at Downtown Disney

Wine Who: Yarden, Israeli wine – the Golan Heights region has been growing wine off and on for centuries (5000 years). The current winery isn’t very old, the Golan Heights Winery released it’s first vintage in 1984. In 1986 they won their

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Food & Wine 2010 – Party for the Senses Wine View Lounge

Background:

We’ve never attended the Party for the Senses, but when the Food & Wine Festival schedule was released for this year, we started thinking “hmmmm, that might be fun… IF we can get another couple to go with us and IF they’ll agree to pay extra for the Wine View Lounge because we aren’t

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Epcot Food & Wine 2010 – Todd English

Food Who: Todd English from Todd English’s bluezoo, Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin

Wine Who: Lucas Meeker from Meeker Vineyards, specifically from Lucas J Cellar, Healdsburg, CA… Lucas J Cellar, Russian River Valley, Jasper Family Vineyards, Pinot Noir

Wine: Lucas Cellars Pinot Noir

In 2007, Lucas got out of college and

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Epcot Food & Wine 2010 – Milagro Tequila

Who & What: Milagro Tequila from Jalisco, Mexico; Presented by Jaime Salas, Tequila Brand Ambassador (from the distillery)

When: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m.

Tequila is officially the most expensive to produce spirit. It takes 8 to 12 years for blue agave to mature; unlike grains which mature and are

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Epcot Food & Wine 2010 – SCOTCH!

We were a bit jealous when we heard that our friends Lisa and Andy had gone to a scotch tasting at Food & Wine last year and we had missed the chance to go! So this year, we kept our eyes on the schedule – and signed up to do the “scotch tasting” all 3

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Epcot Food & Wine – Food & Sake Pairings in Japan

Serene Harmony – the Spirit of Edo in Modern Tokyo

Join us as our chefs expertly pair premium imported Japanese sake with samples of contemporary Japanese cuisine representative of Tokyo.

Event was hosted by Scott Farrow (manager of Mitsukoshi restaurants at

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