Divi Carina Bay announces a delicious travel deal for those interested in scoring tickets to “A Taste of St. Croix,” the island’s much celebrated and anticipated culinary happening. Tickets for the annual event, which showcases the island’s thriving restaurant scene in a cook-off competition, sampling and wine tasting, sell out within minutes. The travel package guarantees two tickets to the Taste of St. Croix and to the after party, on Thursday, April 15, at the Divi Carina Bay Resort. It includes three nights of beachfront accommodations, full breakfast daily, a 10 percent dining discount at last year’s winning restaurants and all taxes. The price is $875 per couple for three nights, with additional nights available at $225 per night. The package is valid for travel April 11-18.
Divi Resorts Offers a Delicious Deal for St. Croix in April
The package also includes a bottle of Chateau Montelena wine and a DVD of the 2008 movie “Bottle Shock,” both signed by Chateau Montelena vintner Bo Barrett. “Bottle Shock” tells the story of the seminal wine tasting event in Paris in 1976, when a Chateau Montelena white wine bested French wines in a blind tasting, shocking the industry and marking the coming of age of California wines. Barrett will be among the vintners offering tastings of their wines at the Taste of St. Croix.
More than 50 local chefs participated in last year’s event on the Divi Carina Bay beachfront, preparing their specialties for over 1500 attendees and the celebrity chef judges, who voted on their top picks in a variety of categories. This year’s judges include Kevin Rathbun, an award-winning chef and owner of three acclaimed restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia; Tim Love, culinary personality and chef/owner of The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro and The Love Shack in Ft. Worth, Texas; Portland’s Gabriel Rucker, named one of the best new chefs of 2007 by Food & Wine magazine and owner of Le Pigeon; as well as Iron Chef America contender and restaurant-owner Robert Trevino of Puerto Rico.
The Taste of St. Croix is part of the five-day St. Croix Food & Wine Experience, named one of the best food festivals in the world by Forbes Traveler 2009. For a full list of events and to book the travel package, visit www.divicarina.com.