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Weekend Picks: Sweet Valentine

February 07, 2008 06:48 AM ET | Doctor, Dianne | Permanent Link

They say chocolate warms your heart, and heats up your passion. There are plenty of places to fuel up for free on this pre-Valentine’s Day weekend!

In Boonton, Vino Fine Wines is having a wine tasting paired with organic chocolates handmade by Mary Amsterdam, who lives in the next town over, Mountain Lakes. It’s Saturday, 1 – 6 p.m.

Wine and chocolate are also the attraction at Gary’s Wine and Marketplace, at their Madison and Bernardsville stores. Bottlings include Carl Sittmann Riesling, Oliverhill Winery Clarendon Shiraz, and Chateau L'Arrosee, a Saint-Emilion Grahd Cru. Saturday, noon to 4 p.m.

Or pair chocolate with New Jersey’s own — own wines, that is. Nearly two dozen wineries from Cape May to Sussex County are holding a Wine & Chocolate Wine Trail Weekend, with cellar tours, tastings of chocolate-appropriate wines, and lots of chocolate. Check www.newjerseywines.com.

Down the Shore, Ocean Grove’s romantic Victorian inns are open for tours and chocolate tastings on Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Local shopkeepers will also hide special “hearts” in their stores, with prizes to visitors who find them. Pick up game board and instructions between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday at the local Chamber of Commerce office (www.oceangrovenj.com). And all the restaurants in town are preparing Valentine’s dinners. 

You’ll find chocolate temptations in South Jersey too. Merchants along historic Farnsworth Ave. in Bordentown are hosting a complimentary chocolate walk for shoppers tomorrow.

At the Holiday Inn in Swedesboro, the Emmanuel Cancer Center is holding “For the Love of Chocolate,” a fundraiser to benefit children with cancer and their families.

Wine, chocolate…how about flowers? Instead of the standard roses, see what you find at the Deep Cut Orchid Society Show, running today through Sunday at the Dearborn Market  in Holmdel. You can stroll through beautiful exhibits of exotic orchids from as far away as South America. 

Chocolate, wine, flowers. The rest is up to you.

Tags: Madison | Bernardsville | Holmdel | Bordentown | Boonton | Ocean Grove | Valentine's Day

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