deVine Thoughts

Author: Ed Fong

Save the date! The businesses on 104th-St. are coming together on Tuesday, December 4 to say a collective “THANK YOU!” for your support throughout the year.

Please come visit us and enjoy the many special offers and activities provided by the following merchants and restaurants for your holiday festive season pleasure. We wish to say a collective Thank you to the residents and visitors to our street for your year round support. Without you, our valued customers, we would not be here!

deVine Wines & Spirits (4 PM to 10 PM), 10111-104th-St.
www.devinewines.ca or phone 780.421.9463
· 10% discount on all in-stock regularly priced wines and spirits (in store shopping only and no rain checks) – excludes beer and wines stored in our vintage keeper/vintage room and special cases of the month.
· Enjoy a free wine tasting while you shop and browse

· unadvertised in-store products between 15-20% off
· Enter your name for a chance to win a gift basket of wine

Please contact the individual businesses below if you require further information.

104st Grill (all day promotion), 10190-104th-St.
www.104stgrill.com or phone 780.429.4333
· 25% discount on your bill for parties up to four (4) guests

Blue Plate Diner (4 PM to 10 PM), 10145-104th-St.
www.blueplatediner.ca or phone 780.429.0740
· 25% off all food (discount is not applicable to beverage alcohol)

Blunt Salon (all day sale), Icon II Tower, 10142-104th-St.
www.bluntsaloninc.com or phone 780.498.1899
· 25% discount on all haircuts and styling

Bubble Buzz (all day sale), Icon Tower II, 10140-104th-St.
www.bubblebuzz.ca or phone 780.761.2899
· Purchase one drink and receive a 50% discount on your second drink
· Come down and enjoy relaxing board games while you savor our drink creations

Carbon Environmental Boutique (all day sale), 10184-104th-St.
www.carbonboutique.com or phone 780.498.1900
· A full day sale event
· In-store draw for a $50 gift certificate
· Free hot Christmas beverages

The Cask and Barrel (4PM to Close), 10041-104th-St.
www.thecaskandbarrel.ca or phone 780.498.1224
· 25% off your entire bill from 4 PM until close

Coup (garment boutique) (all day sale), #101, 10137-104th-St.
www.coupboutique.com or phone 780.756.3032
· 25% discount on all clothing
· In-store draw for a private shopping night

Credo Coffee (all day promotion), Icon Tower I, 10134-104th-St.
www.credocoffee.ca or phone 780.935-5546
· Purchase or reload a gift card, and obtain an extra 10% of credit

Dauphine (all day sale), 10129-104th-St.
Phone 780.421-4410
· 10% discount on all packaged items and Christmas orders placed before Dec 15, 2012

Evoolution (all day sale), Icon Tower I, 10130-104th-St.
www.evoolution.ca or phone 587.521.3445
· 10% discount on all oils, vinegars (excluding bottles over $250) and salts

Eye Care Group (all day sale from 9 AM to 9 PM), 10360-Jasper Ave.
www.eyecaregroup.ca or phone 780.437.2020
· Champagne reception from 4 PM to 9 PM
· All eyewear orders 25% off (frame & Rx lenses)

The Helm Clothing (all day sale), 10125-104th-St.
www.thehelmclothing.com or phone 780.425.4344
· Enjoy a 10% discount on our entire inventory of fine menswear

Lit Wine Bar (6 PM to Close), Icon Tower I, 10132-104th-St.

www.litwinebar.ca or phone 780.757.6688
· Enjoy half priced wine by the glass or by the bottle from 6 PM till close

Mercer Tavern (all day promotion), 10363-104th-St.
www.mercertavern.com or phone 587.521.1911
· 25% discount on your food purchase

Pangaea Market (all day sale), 10150-104th-St.
Phone 780.425.9890
· 10% off your order

Roast Coffeehouse + Wine Bar (all day sale), 10359-104th-St.
www.roastcoffee.com or phone 587.521.1563
· 20% off retail (includes serveware, whole bean coffee, brewing equipment)
· Free 12 ounce brewed coffee

Tony the Tailor Ltd. (all day chance to win), 10172-104th-St.
www.edmontontailor.com or phone 780.426.4654
· 5 In-store draws for a $15 Off Dry-cleaning Gift Certificate

Tzin Wine & Tapas (all day sale), 10115-104th-St.
www.tzin.ca or phone 780.428.8946
10% off on all gift certificates sold that day. Tzin will donate the 10% your save to their Movembe

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Guest Blogger: Katherine Hoy

Call for Volunteers: Jingle on Indoor Santa Claus Parade

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Want to spread goodwill and cheer this holiday season? Looking for a sure-fire way onto Santa’s “Nice” list? Why not volunteer for the Downtown Business Association’s 25thth Annual Jingle On Indoor Santa Claus Parade on Sunday, December 2!

We are filling 150 volunteer positions including Marshals, Pacers, Parade Security and Banner Carriers. It’s a one-day, 6-hour commitment (plus Volunteer Orientation). All volunteers will receive a t-shirt, training and a chance to win fabulous draw prizes at Volunteer Orientation Night.

This is great opportunity for individuals, families, schools, teams and community groups to give back. Help the DBA and Santa make
thousands of children happy on Sunday, December 2!

Colourful floats, mascots, marching bands, theatre groups, dancers and others will jingle their way through Commerce Place, Manulife Place, and Edmonton City Centre Malls. The highlight is the arrival of Santa who takes a break from the North Pole for a pre-Christmas visit with all of Edmonton’s good boys and girls.

Free candy for the kids. And best of all, you don’t have to worry about the weather!

Visit edmontondowntown.com for more information on this event. To volunteer for the Jingle On Indoor Santa Claus Parade, go here..

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Author: Annabelle Evaristo

We’ve been planning for quite some time a glorious week of celebration of the wines of Portugal which begins with the Portuguese Wine Festival on Tuesday, November 13th at deVine’s from 7pm to 9:30pm!

Winemakers and/or winery representatives from several Portuguese wineries will be here to talk wine with you on a personal level. Sample over 20 different wines, beers and liqueurs which will be served by the representatives. Not very often will you have an opportunity to rub shoulders with this many winemakers. To make it even more enticing, all in-stock Portuguese wines will be discounted 10% that evening for the attendees of the festival.

Tickets are $30 each and can be order by phone – 780-421-9463 or online here..

Feature Winery – One of the feature wineries at the festival is Fita Preta Vinhos and co-founder and enologist Antonio Macanita. Producing “highly individual wines with a distinctive Portuguese character” has been the motto of Macanita and co-founder David Booth (who unfortunately passed away suddenly earlier this year).

The winery is located in the Alentejo region, a large province in the south of the country, lying between the cool waters of the Atlantic Ocean and arid interior of southern Spain. The combination of poor rocky soils and the 3000 hours of sunshine per year, low summer rainfall ensure grapes mature fully producing wines that have a distinctive fruit character and represent a true expression of the terroir.

Macanita has worked with leading wineries around the world (Merryvale and Rudd in Napa, d’Arenberg in McLaren Vale, and Chateau Lynch Bages in Pauillac). Please join us next tuesday and sample several Fita Preta wines, and to say hello to Antonio, one of many winemakers at deVine’s that evening.

A Winemaker’s Dinner with matching wines will then be held at Sabor Divino on Wednesday, November 14th – book your tickets here.., followed by the very popular Annual Roy Hersh Port Tasting at the Royal Glenora Club on Friday, November 16th (already sold out). Please make every effort to join us for one or all of these events during this festive week in celebration of Portuguese wines and culture.

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