Transport Yourself to Spain This Weekend at the Gloria Ferrer Catalan Festival. Enter to Win Tickets!
Spend The Day in Spain Without Leaving The Bay Area
Every year
Gloria Ferrer, one of my favorite sparkling houses, transforms their lovely winery into a Spanish Catalan Festival.
This July 21 – July 22, 2012 from 11:00am – 4:00pm, they will transport you to Spain for a day of Spanish food, wine and entertainment
with lively classical guitar, passionate flamenco dancing, a festive grape stomp and traditional folklore surprises.
Stroll and enjoy savory tapas, paella demonstrations and wine seminars as you sip California sparkling and estate wines.
The day offers wine seminars, cocktail demonstration, grape stomping competition, cooking demonstrations, live music, singing, dancing and more. Check out the full schedule here.
Tickets are only $50 ($42 for wine club, and include a souvenir logo flute, 2 drink tickets, 4 food tickets, passport to sample Spanish wines, music and dancing entertainment, and Grape Stomping entertainment! Purchase here.
Check out this fun video of the event!:
Win A Pair Of Tickets – Ends Thursday!
Simple Hedonisms readers are lucky enough to again be offered to win a pair of tickets to this wonderful event.
To Enter To Win is Fun and Easy.
Simply go to this list of fun sparkling wine food pairings and tell us in comments (here on the blog) which one sounds most yummy paired with bubbles to you.
Make sure we get your first and last name for ticket will call. 
Ends this Thursday evening, don’t delay! To enter you Must be 21 years
or older to enter, and that by entering you verify you are over 21. Winners will be chosen from correct answers by random drawing.


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All the food/sparkling suggestions are amazing but I have to say the Chicken with Rosemary Cream is intriguing. Sounds like a great event!
A wickedly good choice of dishes for the food pairing. If I must choose one, I’ll go with Sizzling Garlic Shrimp!
The Lobster Salad Scoops, perfect. And Brut, nothing sweeter, nothing drier. Yum.
The Mushrooms Baked in Parchment Beggars Purses sounds awesome to me, maybe with the Gloria Blanc de Noirs? Would love to attend the event on Saturday with good friend visiting from San Jose this weekend
I would go with the Chicken w/Rosemary Cream, Brut or Brut Rose
Lot of wonderful dishes. I will go for the Sea Bass with Mushrooms. Cheers!
Is there any doubt that oysters and bubbly are a match made in heaven?? On par with Cava and tapas on the beaches of Barcelona!
http://www.gloriaferrer.com/oysters-bdb-recipe/
Wood Grilled Lamb Curry with Fennel Pistachio Salad & Foie Gras Yogurt
The receipes all sound amazingly fabulous and bubbly would go well with each-doesn’t bubbly go well with just about anything? how about with PBJ!!! but from this list I’d select the Lamb Curry…thansk and hope to see you this weekend!!!
The Pan-Pacific / Spicy combo really appeals to me. I love curries and Thai food with a some “zing”, paired with the delicious Gloria Ferrer Blanc de Noirs. Perfection!
Congrats John, by Random # generator, you win! Enjoy!
Woo Hoo! Thank You!
I would have to go with the Ahi Tuna in a Cucumber Rollup. I love tuna and light and fresh food sounds like a good combination with sparkling wine.
They all look absolutely fabulous, but my fave was the Lobster Salad scoops. My mouth is salivating just thinking and talking about them with bubbles!! oh yeahhhh!!! bring it on!! Can’t wait for Sunday
Sizzling Garlic Shrimp with Gloria Ferrer Brut is my favorite pairing – rich yet simple. Food and beverages are always best when the combination doesn’t seem like it’s trying too hard.
Definitely the oysters! Oysters and bubbles are the best match ever!
Definitely the oysters! Bring on the bubbly! Vi da Vi!
Oysters, Gloria, and Gloria! Perfect!