Tasty Times at Crystal Springs

I’ve been invited to some of the happenings this weekend at the Second Annual New Jersey Food and Wine Festival—a weekend-long event that kicks off Friday, April 30, at the Crystal Springs Resort in Sussex County.

The festival includes food and wine dinners prepared by top chefs from New York and New Jersey, a golf tournament, seminars, and wine pairings with winemakers from the USA and abroad.

I’ll be tasting (happily as an observer) at the Top Bordeaux vs. California Cult Wines Taste-Off where sommeliers—Belinda Change (The Modern), Josh Nadal (Locanda Verde), and Brooke Sabel (Ninety Acres) will join Master of Wine Christopher Cree (56 Degree Wine) and wine writer/restaurant consultant John Foy (The Wine Odyssey) for a side-by-side blind tasting of more than $60,000 worth of Bordeaux and California wines from the resort’s cellar.

With any luck, I’ll get a quick look at the amazing 78,000 bottle cellar of Crystal Springs’ Restaurant Latour—a virtual who’s who of the world’s most celebrated wines, before heading over to the Grand Tasting of more than 30 wineries from nine countries.

For tickets and further information, check the link above.

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