Posted on January 24, 2011
Giveaway: Win A Night At The Beach Club Resort and Parksville Uncorked Tickets
Now in its third year, the Parksville Uncorked Wine & Food Festival has quickly gained popularity with culinary aficionados and wine connoisseurs all across Vancouver Island and beyond. Over four days, guests have the opportunity to learn trade secrets from some of British Columbia’s most celebrated chefs, vintners, sommeliers and restaurateurs.
There are a number of spectacular events planned over the course of Parksville Uncorked, happening February 24th through 27th, allowing for plenty of time to mix and mingle with other food and wine lovers. There’s guaranteed to be a little bit of something for everyone.
Parksville Untapped Thursday, February 24
6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. – Tickets are $49 each – Phone 1-800-663-7373 to reserve
- Local breweries and beers will be showcasing their bubbles and barley at the Tigh-Na-Mara Resort and Spa. Enjoy smooth jazz music while taking a featured look at the history of beer brewing on Vancouver Island.
Swirl Gala Friday, February 25
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Tickets are $69 each – Phone 1-888-760-2008 to reserve
- Pop the cork, swirl your glass and delight in delicious wines and palate-pleasing cuisine. This sophisticated evening is being proudly hosted by The Beach Club Resort.
Winemakers Dinner with Burrowing Owl Winery Saturday, February 26
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Tickets are $99 each – Phone 1-888-760-2008 to reserve
- Chef Sean Norris will be preparing a coastal-inspired dinner to perfectly pair with a number of Burrowing Owl wines at The Beach Club Resort. The pairings will be explained and and your questions answered by Sommelier Stuart Bruce from Appellation Wine.
Winemakers Dinner with Road 13 Saturday, February 26
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Tickets are $99 each – Phone 1-800-663-7373 to reserve
- Tigh-Na-Mara Resort and Spa’s Walbran Ballroom will be the place to be to experience a divine six-course meal, expertly prepared by Chef Eric Edwards. Enjoy the meal with pairings provided by Pam & Mick Luckhurst of Road 13.
Bubbles & Brunch Sunday, February 27
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Tickets are $29.95 each – Phone 1-800-663-7373
- Say “au revoir!” to a phenomenal weekend with a scrumptious brunch and a selection of BC bubbly at the Tigh-Na-Mara Resort and Spa.
For more information on Parksville Uncorked, the events, wine sponsors and fabulous accommodation packages with either The Beach Club Resort or Tigh-Na-Mara Resort and Spa, please visit the Parksville Uncorked website.

Photo: The Beach Club Resort
The fantastic folks behind Parksville Uncorked want to give Keira-Anne.com readers a chance to enjoy one of the premiere events of the weekend, the Swirl Gala on Friday, February 25. The prize package consists of a one-night stay for two at the luxe Beach Club Resort, lapping the shores of Parksville’s beachfront, and two tickets to the Swirl Gala – a quick getaway worth over $300! You’ve got two chances to enter:
1. Leave a comment below. (1 entry)
2. Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
You must be 19+ to win and able to attend the Swirl Gala on Friday, February 25. I will draw one winner at random at noon on Friday, February 4. Good luck!
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FUN! I love the island and I truly don’t get over there enough.
Oh.. you KNOW Glen and I would love a night away from our little one. This would be a blast! A little wine, dine and relaxation!…mmm
I’m sure it would be a nice getaway! Thanks for offering this to your readers!
Any time I can escape to the island is a good time. This is just what the wife and I need right about now!
I love parksville and the resorts out in this area.
sounds like a night of sheer bliss
That sounds excellent! Look at that bowl of decorative apples!
I would love a mini-vacation, relaxation getaway!
I would love to surprise my wife with this!
I would so love this! what a nice giveaway 😉
This sounds like a fantastic event!
What a great giveaway – would love this!
That would be so lovely!
I’d love to win this quick getaway, I haven’t been to Parksville in years!
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I would absolutely love to win this amazing prize! The Beach club Resort looks heavenly, I have read recent reviews of the resort and there was nothing but good things said about it, so I would love to have the chance to experience it myself! Parksville Uncorked sounds like such a yummy event!
Oh my, this sounds amazing! My birthday is coming up so this would be such a great way to celebrate
We NEED this get away!
Ahhh… what an amazing prize! Would be the perfect getaway for me and my husband… (with our 2 1/2 at grandma’s house!)
What a dream
Would really love to go. My fiancée is from the island yet has never been to Parksville.
This sounds too lovely to pass up!
Oh, this is exciting.
Would love to go to Parksville!!
Had a planned getaway there last year that had to be cancelled
What a perfect match – good wine, good food, beautiful setting! Sounds like the perfect place to get away and indulge all of the senses in the middle of a very busy few months for me and my guy.
Love the island, Love wine … It’s almost as though this contest was made just for me!
Best of luck to everyone
Would love to win this fabulous mini-break!
Would be great to getaway… here’s hoping! :~)
Sounds like this little getaway would be just what the Dr. ordered.
Wine, beach, food, friends….sounds perfect.
What a wonderful contest! Good luck, everyone.
Sounds like fun!
I would love a chance to see what Parksville has to offer in terms of wine and food celebrations! I am a die-hard Island supporter; I have lived here 15 years and my annual vacations are here… I’d love another reason to celebrate where I choose to call home!
I love wines and leaning about them, we are currently working our way through the Italian wine section of our favourite liquor store
my husband and I would love some time away from the hustle and bustle of kids, work, kids sporting events etc….great contest- good luck everyone!
How totally completely romantic! It would b a beautiful surprise for my wine loving French boyfriend and it will give this island boy the chance to show him a bit of the beautiful island I grew up on in a city I have spent so many summers creating amazing memories! Here’s to more memories!!! <3
Sounds just like the kinda mid winter break i need. great accommodations and lots of wine that needs tasting!
Thanks for hosting this great contest! I’d love to win a mini break from my hectic life & spend some quality time with a loved one up in Parksville. I haven’t stayed at this place before. We usually stay at Beach Acres in a forest cottage or rent a private vacation home when we visit that area.
That would be a fun weekend!
What a great event!
Never been to this, it sounds great.
Love the Beach Club, and would love a free stay even more!
could it get any better?
I would love a mini-vacation, relaxation getaway! Wine, great scenery and good food and wonderful night away with my husband.
I live on the island and I don’t make it up to Parksville enough!
sounds like a wonderful time I’m in.
This would be an awesome post-valentine getaway! The resort looks gorgeous!
Very cool.
Pick me, please!
I love Parksville. I love wine. I love food. Perfect!
I would like an excuse to get up to Parksville again. I have just become so islandised that I think that would be a long day’s drive even though it is only 2 hours away.
Oh lovely, just in time for the sistah’s bee-day!
I woudl love to enjoy an evening out in a beautiful town! I hered so many gret things about the Swirl event and Parksville’s Uncorked!
Sounds like a fun evening!
My husband and I spent our honeymoon in Parksville 3 years ago. It would be wonderful to go back for a refresher and spend a lovely evening together in such a beautiful place!
Fantastic. Good luck to all!
That would be a wonderful prize to win.
This sounds amazing! I just drove through Parksville today and was thinking that I’d love to come back and rediscover it. I haven’t properly explored it since, oh… it’s too embarrassing to say.
Want!
I’ve never been to Parksville but I’d love to check it out.
Would love to win- as I have never visited Parksville
Post-Valentine’s Day getaway?
gosh, i need a little bit of luck.
this would be a perfect 10th anniversary get away for my hubby and I!!!
Wow! What an awesome giveaway!
I would love to visit Parksville I am a foodie in Whistler and would love to blog about your scene!
OHHHHH!!!! This would be so awesome to win!! How does it get any better than this!
What a fantastic prize! Thanks
Sounds perfect <3
i would love to win this for my parents who love love wine and their anniversary is coming up soon
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Sounds delicious!! Wish me Luck.
Have dreamed about a wine getaway forever and have wanted to try the Beach Club Resort. My birthday is next month and I would love to treat my loved one to a little getaway!
This looks incredible! What I would do to win this package…
Yes, Please!
love the beach club!!! would be a nice anniversary gift for my husband and i – and to be able to get away from the kids for a night!!!
Just found out I don’t leave for Vancouver until the night of the 26th now! Never have stayed in Parksville and have always wanted to go to this event! Fingers crossed! =)
I LOVE the beachclub! I travel every 3 months on business and it is the place to stay! I don’t mind driving to Nanaimo or Courtenay for work!
I really wanna win!
What a great prize! I would love to go so please put my name in too.
Oooh I stayed at the Beach Club Resort in 2008 and have been wanting to go back ever since! Would love to win this
I would love this amazing opportunity. Am dreaming of a nice getaway just like this!
Wow! What an awesome giveaway!
Enter me too please
This would be absolutely amazing!
WoOoOooOooW! This I LOoOoOooVE!
Penny REALLY wants to get rid of us JUST for this!
This would be the perfect romantic getaway! Some much needed time away from cell phones.
Sounds like an amazing time!!! A nice place for a getaway:)
what a great prize, would love a weekend away close to home!
Would love to stay in Parksville A most beautiful place
Sounds FANTASTIC! Pop the Cork!!
Sounds lovely
Parksville is a great place for a relaxing getaway.
Would be an incredible experience and blissful getaway!
sounds like a great event and would love to go!
This would be such a lovely lil getaway:)
Hi!
See that thing flying trough the air? It’s my hat landing in the ring.
Cheers!
– Don
This looks absolutely fabulous! To spend a night there with my husband would be awesome!!!!
Wow what a great giveaway! Nothing lil a relaxing getaway to beautiful Parksville!
Hoping to win this one! Great contest!
Sounds great, would love to be there!
I would love to win such a lovely getaway. Parksville is the niftiest town!
WOW! That sounds FABULOUS!
Great giveaway – would love this!
Love the Beach Club! Have been dying for an opportunity to stay there!
What a great giveaway! Wine and a great hotel…. what could be better?!
Hope I win!
My wife and I have been married for 10 years and never had a honeymoon…I think this would be the perfect little getaway for us!!!!
Sounds fabulous!
that would be amazing!!!!!!!!!! have only driven past 😀
Ooooooooooooooooo I wanna get away fabulous trip of awesomeness! I hope i WIN!
What a dream prize!!!! This resort is one-of-a-kind!
Would love this sound like an amazing weeknd
*fingers crossed*
Sounds like fun!
I love wine.
I love food.
I love Parksville.
Would love to experience a night at the ‘Beach Club’!
Hope everyone enjoys the Gala.
Cheers:)
Good luck to all who enter!
I don’t live far from there and it’s amazing how I don’t get to enjoy the beautiful things around me.
Sounds like a great event, would love to go!!
I would love to win this. I RT on twitter. My wife and I would have a great time in Parksville!!! And a night at the “Beach Club”! What an awesome prize!
My wife and I have often talked about exploring the Island more, and yet have never been to Parksville. Sure hope this affords us the opportunity to do so…thanks for sharing this, Keira-Anne!
This looks just lovely, I know the hubby and I could sure use a getaway!
Kim made me do it!