*CLOSED* Olive Garden Wine Tastings Plus $25 Gift Card Giveaway

Free wine tastings on Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the next two weeks at Olive Garden!

Have you seen the new signage and decor? Olive Garden restaurants in our area have gotten a new look, including a revamped interior décor inspired by the warmth and rustic charm of Tuscan farmhouses. To celebrate their newly remodeled restaurants and fresh design, Olive Garden restaurants in the DC area are inviting the general public (21 years old and up) to attend a complimentary wine tasting. The tastings will take place  starting tonight Wed. Jan. 11th, and also Thurs. Jan. 12th, Wed. Jan. 18th and Thurs. Jan. 19th, 2012 from 6 – 8 pm at the following Olive Garden locations in Northern Virginia:

• 3548-52 S. Jefferson St., Falls Church, VA (located at Bailey’s Crossroads)
• 8133 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
• 12980 Fair Lakes Center, Fairfax, VA
• 14405 Gideon Drive, Woodbridge, VA
• 7501 Broken Branch Lane, Manassas, VA

These free wine tastings will be led by Olive Garden wine specialists, and guests will be given the opportunity to try a variety of Italian wines—plus learn about their origins, flavors and food pairings. One of the featured wines is the Rocca delle Macie’s SaSyr, a red wine developed in partnership with the Rocca delle Macie winery in Tuscany, Italy.

*This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Abby (Abbymazanec@…) on being randomly selected as the winner!*
Since I love Italian food so much and I love to give my readers the chance to win great stuff, I’m pleased to also offer a $25 Olive Garden gift card giveaway!

To enter:

1. Simply comment below and tell me what Italian food you’re craving!
2. Additional optional entry: Like BeltwayBargainMom.com on Facebook and Olive Garden on Facebook then leave a comment letting me know that you have done so. If you’re already a fan, leave a comment and let me know. Note: In order to comply with Facebook rules, please remember that it is not the act of liking the page that is the additional optional entry, it is the act of then commenting here that counts as your entry.  Please do not feel compelled to like my page if you are not interested in receiving Facebook updates from BeltwayBargainMom.com.
3. Additional optional entry: Follow @BeltwayBargain and @OliveGarden on Twitter and tweet about this contest with a link back to this page. Be sure to come back and leave a comment here with the Timestamp of your tweet.
   Here’s a sample tweet: Love Italian Food? Free wine tastings plus enter to win $25 @OliveGarden giftcard via @BeltwayBargain #giveaway http://bit.ly/yNEh2U

Entries are open through Tues. 1/17/2012 11:59 pm ET. This contest is open to anyone within the contiguous United States. Limit of up to 3 entries per person. You must enter a separate comment for each entry in order for it to be considered a valid entry (please do not list multiple entry options in one comment). One winner will be randomly selected (from the approved and valid comments) on Wed. 1/18 and contacted via email to confirm mailing address where the gift card will be sent.

Disclosure: I was provided a gift card to giveaway to one reader as well as a gift card to keep for myself to experience the newly remodeled Olive Garden restaurant. The opinions shared here are my own. The giveaway prize Olive Garden gift card is provided by Olive Garden, and I wanted to share this with you all! To read my formal disclosure policy, please click here.