Wine and Dine Festival

The HK Wine and Dine festival only takes place once a year in Oct, so of course I had to attend while I’m here. ;)
Location: about a 10 min walk from Central, HK, and Admiralty stations
Best way to get here from the Kowloon area is by ferry from Tsim Sha Tsui~ 3 minute walk!
The event overlooks the harbour so the view is beautiful and it’s breezy, even when crowded.
Note: They ONLY take cash or octopus card!!!
Admission: 30hkd
Different wine tasting packages available:
100hkd for a plastic wine cup and 5 wine tokens
200hkd for a glass wine cup (good souvenir!) and 8 wine tokens
Etc & Up.
Wine tastings ranged from 1 – 4 tokens, depending on the quality and price of the wines. Luckily, most were only 1 token, a few being 2 tokens, and a couple rare ones costing 3 – 4 tokens.
Sampled some wine and bought a couple food items, which were all sooo delicious!!! The wine and food came from all over the world — Argentina, Europe, Japan, America, and more. I’m not a wine drinker, so I probably can’t tell the difference between a $ 3 vs $ 300 bottle of wine, haha, but I know what my tastebuds like!
Iced wine (wine w/​dry ice) was definitely the hype of the wines, with the longest line. 6 flavors to choose from: mojito, long island, sex on the beach, margarita, strawberry daquiri, and mai tai. But it barely had any wine taste and tasted like juice. The drink still tasted pretty good, but definitely not for wine lovers.
Many other lovely wines available as well, ranging from red to white, floral or fruit hints, sweet and dry, etc.
There was also a booth that had non-​alcoholic wine as well (aka overpriced grape juice!) It won’t make you feel buzzed or tipsy ;(, but I picked up a bottle anyway b/​c it tasted great!!! xD
Annnnnd it came from my home state of good ol’ California! Hehe.
Also, they had live performances on a fake grass lawn, which gave the event a very lively feel.
Overall, great way to spend a lovely Sunday evening with friends, family, and loved ones.

Hong Kong’s Annual Wine and Dine Festival is held every October by Central Piers 9 & 10, which is a great location. The harbour front on one side and the skyline on the other. There are two entrances, and the queues snake around several times going back on to itself several times, but very orderly and moves really quickly, so the wait is no more than 20 or so minutes.
Once inside, after paying an admissions ticket of HK$ 30, you queue up for tokens for the wine tastings. There is a tokens package of 8 tokens and a proper glass in a glass holder, for HK$ 200. Additional plastic tasting glasses can be bought for HK$ 5 each. You can spend 1, 2 or 3 tokens to taste, dependent on the quality and price of the wines. You also get a little booklet with vouchers for a free bottle of water, a small bag of nuts, and a small bag of biscuits, and discounts on some wines.
The wine and food tastings are group into different zones, you can meet wine dealers from different countries, there is the Gourmet Trials to sample dishes from Hong Kong’s premier hotels and restaurants. We tasted wines and champagnes from Argentina, Spain, Australia, France, Italy, and Germany. My favourite, of course, is the champagne, my kind of drink!
The atmosphere is really great and it is a lot of fun. The event is running from 22 — 25 October 2015.