This year’s Barossa Vintage Festival, 23rd April – 1st May, has a great programme of wine-focused events for wine lovers, and plenty to entertain you too! This year a new event will be held at Linfield Road Wines in Williamstown called Comedy in the Vines, and WineQuota has a double pass (valued at $110) to give to a WineQuota member!
To win the tickets to a night with hilarious comedians Jason Chong, Ben Darsow, Rich Naberhood on Wednesday 27th April (and enjoy Linfield Road’s superb wines) all you have to do is join WineQuota (if you haven’t already) at WineQuota.com.au and tell us a wine-related joke, or post a link to an amusing wine story, in the comments below. We’ll pick our favourite on Friday the 15th April!
For more details about Comedy in the Vines click here!
There are 120 events during the Festival, starting with free entertainment for the whole family at the opening ‘Carnival’
from 10.30am on April 23 at Seppeltsfield Winery.
The 40 special wine-focused events include Legends Behind The Barrel, where you can meet some of the Barossa’s most influential legends to taste and compare barrel and current release wines.
On the Distinguished Vineyards Tour you can explore some of the world’s most precious vineyards and taste the wines that are produced there, ranging from Henschke’s Hill of Grace to Langmeil’s 1843 Freedom vineyard. For collectors, the Rare & Distinguished Barossa Wine Auction showcases highly sought-after back vintages and large formats of the region’s finest wines.
Visitors can celebrate the end of the week and kick up their heels at Under a Hot Tin Roof, an upbeat band night at the iconic Tanunda Town Hall on Friday the 29th of April or get glamorous at the Grand Vintage Festival Ball on April 30 in the Great Vintage Hall at the iconic Seppeltsfield Winery and indulge in a sumptuous three-course dinner and canapés accompanied by award winning, prestigious Barossa wines.
The Barossa Vintage Festival website at barossavintagefestival.com.au has details about all the events, and you can book tickets through Venuetix.
Don’t forget to use the #BVF2011 hashtag to spread the word about the Festival on Twitter, and “like” the Festival on Facebook here.
A Glass Half Full 
What sound does a grape make when an elephant steps on it?
A: None. It just lets out a little wine.
Nice one Craig!
Did you hear about the new blend of pinot blanc, pinot noir, and pinot grigio that acts as a diuretic? It’s called pinot more
On his first date with a beautiful woman, Joe decided to impress her with his knowledge of wine. He told the wine steward to bring a bottle of 1980 Penfolds Grange
Upon tasting the wine, Joe berated the steward, “No, no, this is not a 1980 Penfolds Grange..this is a 1990 cab sav from the limestone coast! Please bring me what I ordered.”
Watching the drama from the bar, an old drunk came up to the table and said, “Wow, that’s an impressive ability. Can you tell me what’s in my glass?”
Not wanting to pass up an opportunity to impress his date, Joe sipped at the drunk’s glass.
“Christ, this tastes like piss!” he exclaimed and spat the mouthful out.
“That’s exactly right,” said the drunk. “Now tell me when and where I was born
Men are like a fine wine. They start out as grapes. It’s our job to stomp them, and then keep them in the dark until they mature. And hopefully they’ll turn out to be something we would like to have dinner with.
A dinner party of different nationalities had arrived at a restaurant. They each ordered a glass of wine, but when the wine arrived they noticed that each of the glasses had a fly in it.
* The Swede demanded to have new wine in the same glass.
* The Englishman demanded to have new wine in a new glass.
* The Finn picked the fly out of the wine and drank the wine.
* The Russian drank the wine, fly and all.
* The Chinese ate the fly but left the wine.
* The Jew caught the fly and sold it to the Chinese.
* The Roman drank two thirds of the wine and then demanded to have new wine.
* The Norwegian took the fly and went off to fish for cod.
* The Irishman ground the fly and mixed it in the wine, which he then donated to the Englishman.
* The American sued the restaurant and claimed for a 65 million dollar compensation for mental suffering.
* The Scotsman grabbed the fly by the throat and roared: ‘Now spit out all that you swallowed!!’
That’s great! Cheers!
An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest’s breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.
He says, “Sir, have you been drinking?”
“Just water,” says the priest. The trooper says, “Then why do I smell wine?”
The priest looks at the bottle and says, “Good Lord! He’s done it again!”
Craig’s our winner! He got in early AND delivered 3 great wine jokes. Thanks to Jenny and Mel for their entries, and to our friends on Twitter who tweeted jokes. We look forward to hearing about Craig’s experience at Comedy in the Vines.