***Epcot Food And Wine Festival Info 2008***

[ReggieB]

Michelle - THANKS for the score cards......

Thanks from me too.

 

[adizzle819]

Here's a few more...

Wow, these scorecards are amazing, thank you so much I am leaving on sunday for my first festival, so these will be very helpful

 

[jcanary]

Can you pick them up at the food and wine festival or do we need to print them from this thread? If we can get them at the festival, where are they? Each kiosk?

 

[pumpkinfish]

I'm glad Deb's update on the booth menus was wrong. We are looking forward to the Creme Brulee in France and when I saw the sorbets listed on hers instead of the Creme Brulee I was quite upset. No hopefully someone will post pictures of the actual booth menus soon so we can see all the prices.

Ugh, can't we just stay in denial about the prices and how much I spend while there ?

 

[TheDISneyFamily]

Can you pick them up at the food and wine festival or do we need to print them from this thread? If we can get them at the festival, where are they? Each kiosk?

Nope, I make them. You can right click and save them to your computer. They are 4" x 6" cards.

Well, I'm almost done. Here are some more. The last batch will be up in a few minutes...

 

[kathyg]

Ack, sorry I didn't scan the map! It was pretty much, come home, scan pictures, post, collapse into bed. The scanner is hooked up to DH's computer so I'll see if I can get something done asap but we have to leave for work in just a few.

And we're going to go check out what the festival beer is this year, but we're not holding our breaths that it's anything different from the Winter Lager. oh, and Jazcat, I would have LOVED some of the Imperial Pilsner, especially on draft.

Here we go, not the best resolution, but it's there

Thanks so much for positing this. BUT, am I missing something because I can only see booths 19 to 27?

Also, for all those travelling into Orlando for the F&W Festival, are the weekend crowds enough to keep you away those days? This is our first and I'm curious if F&W goers who are staying on property tend to rather go during the week and do other things on weekends. Although I did read somewhere here that the majority of tasting events take place on the weekends. So, if you please, a little direction from the experts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much!!!

 

[ReggieB]

Thanks so much for positing this. BUT, am I missing something because I can only see booths 19 to 27?

Also, for all those travelling into Orlando for the F&W Festival, are the weekend crowds enough to keep you away those days? This is our first and I'm curious if F&W goers who are staying on property tend to rather go during the week and do other things on weekends. Although I did read somewhere here that the majority of tasting events take place on the weekends. So, if you please, a little direction from the experts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much!!!

The other page is in this thread somewhere, let me look for the post #

That's odd, the other bit has gone, I can find the scan of booths 1-9, but the 10-18 have disappeared!!!

 

[mommyoftwinfants]

go back a few more pages from that scan and the other scanned pages are there HTH

 

[ReggieB]

They are post #2409. For some reason my PC fails to load one of the scans.

 

[adizzle819]

They are post #2409. For some reason my PC fails to load one of the scans.

I'm having the same problem! It worked when I looked this morning, but I went to check again, and now I can only see the first page

 

[karrit2000]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I just e-mailed WDW event services to request that they provide a link to the pdf file of the brochure on the official WDW festival info page. they had it last year after the Orlando Sentinal had scanned it & posted a link on their website. I haven't heard back from them yet.

 

[PatriciaH]

Saw the guide and I am glad to say there are lots of free tastings and seminars this year! There are even Spirit Seminars with whiskey, vodka, tequila, etc.. some days! There is a seminar called "AUTHORS WITHOUT BORDERS- Listen to renowned authors from the food & wine industry speak about popular topics." this year too. Here is tomorrows schedule for example:

10:00 a.m. WINE SEMINAR
Sterling Vineyards: Future with Organic Wine
Presented by David Chu
10:45 a.m. CULINARY DEMONSTRATION, Andrea Zelen
Owner of American Brownie Company
Orlando, FL
11:00 a.m. WORLD SHOWPLACE
BOCUSE d’OR COMPETITION, Teams 5-8
11:30 a.m. WINE SEMINAR, Moët & Chandon
Champagne, France, Presented by Seth Box
11:30 a.m. AUTHORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Hope Fox, Impress for Less
12:00 p.m. BOOK SIGNING, Hope Fox
12:15 p.m. CULINARY DEMONSTRATION, Pam Smith, R.D.
Festival Program Host and Author of
The Energy Edge
1:00 p.m. SPIRIT SEMINAR, Whiskeys of the World
Presented by Marcy Rudershausen, M.O.W.
1:00 p.m. AUTHENTIC TASTES
Nielsen-Massey Vanillas, The Vanilla Specialist
Presented by Beth Nielsen
1:00 p.m. BOOK SIGNING, Pam Smith
2:30 p.m.* CHEESE TASTING, A Selection of French Cheese
Presented by Max McCalman, Artisanal Premium
Cheese, New York, NY
The Bordeaux Wine Council, Bordeaux, France
2:30 p.m.* ITALY PAVILION AT EPCOT ®
FOOD & WINE PAIRING, Tutto Italia Ristorante
3:45 p.m. BOOK SIGNING, Max McCalman
Cheese: A Connoisseur’s Guide to the
World’s Best
3:45 p.m. WINE SEMINAR, Moët & Chandon
Champagne, France, Presented by Seth Box
4:00 p.m. AUTHORS WITHOUT BORDERS, David Pasternack
The Young Man & The Sea
Hosted by Workman Publishing, Inc.
4:30 p.m. BOOK SIGNING, David Pasternack
5:15 p.m. BOTTLE SIGNING, Au Bon Climat
4:30 p.m. CULINARY DEMONSTRATION, Bob Waggoner
Charleston Grill, Charleston, SC
5:15 p.m. BOOK SIGNING, Bob Waggoner
5:15 p.m. SPIRIT SEMINAR, The Best of Mexico: The
History and Versatility of Tequila
Presented by Rebecca Quinonez
5:15 p.m. AUTHENTIC TASTES
Green’s Sugarhouse Homemade Maple Syrups
& Sugar, Presented by Pam & Rich Green
5:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m.
AMERICA GARDENS THEATRE
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, “You & Me & The
Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)”
6:00 p.m. CULINARY DEMONSTRATION, Dennis Hewett
Special Events, Disney’s BoardWalk Resort
7:00 p.m.* WORLD SHOWPLACE
BOCUSE D’OR GRAND GALA
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

All events take place in the Festival Welcome Center, unless otherwise noted.

I have the other days. Just post if you want them!

 

[TheDISneyFamily]

This is the last of the rating cards! Have a great time at Food & Wine Fest everyone!

Cheers!
-Michelle

 

[BriarRosie]

I wanted to comment that last year, I was almost a victim of the Soup Nazi at Canada. The cast member filled the cup half way and considered it "full".
I politely asked them if they could please give me a full portion of soup, and they obliged.

I just commented on a post by lurkyloo, since she posted pics from today on her blog, and they gave her a FULL PORTION.

So I guess it never hurts to ask for the full cup of soup.

 

[shovan]

EEEEEEE!!!!! I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself!!!

Thanks to all for the brochure & the pics & the scorecards!!!

 

[karrit2000]

Since there are only 5 Wine or Spirit seminars listed it does appear that they have cut way back on that type of seminar. Based on the scheduled times it would seem that there is only one venue allocated to the Wine & Spirit seminars. I guess we saw this coming.

 

[shovan]

Saw the guide and I am glad to say there are lots of free tastings and seminars this year!

WOOHOO!!! Thanks!

Patricia, Is this in the brochure (same as past year's) or a seperate guide?

 

[TheDISneyFamily]

Just wanted to mention that I'll be adding the prices to the score cards that have already been posted in this thread. I'm half-way done, but I've gotta take a break and get away from my computer! I'll be back later to finish them...

Have a great day everyone!

EDIT - Can everyone see the cards OK? Do cards 9-14 show up for you? It looks OK to me... but someone said that they weren't showing up in the post...

 

[Sk8Leigh]

I'm glad Deb's update on the booth menus was wrong. We are looking forward to the Creme Brulee in France and when I saw the sorbets listed on hers instead of the Creme Brulee I was quite upset. No hopefully someone will post pictures of the actual booth menus soon so we can see all the prices.

I agree! I didn't like the sorbets very much last year, so I'm glad it's really the Creme Brulee!

 

[kathyg]

This is the last of the rating cards! I didn't know what to put for the Brewer's Collection booth - so I will have to fill that one in when I find out what beers they have. Have a great time at Food & Wine Fest everyone!

Cheers!
-Michelle

Thank you so very, very much for doing this. I just printed mine out and will write in the prices when you post them. You are totally awesome for helping us all out!!!!

Kathy