Driving around Orlando I’ve seen a few Epcot International Food & Wine Festival billboards showing cartoon-looking food and wine items together with the tagline “We met at Epcot.” I thought these billboards were quirky but what really caught my attention was a television commercial showing two “characters” - a talking bottle of wine and a talking wheel of cheese - recounting their “love story” of meeting at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. The commercial featured a Web address - pairingperfection.com

The first time I tried to visit this site it was blank. But, I tried again last night and what I found was a humorous site full of many such video stories of food and/or wine items searching for (and sometimes finding) love together. A bottle of Chardonnay introduces herself as “Char” and talks about herself in the way one might do if recording a video personal ad. The home page has the “featured profile of the day.” A lobster embraces a bottle of white wine in a way that is unmistakably passionate. There’s even a section for you to “find your perfect pairing” - be prepared to say whether you’re a beer/wine seeking food or a food seeking beer/wine.

Of course it’s all just a clever marketing campaign for the festival. Still, it’s entertaining enough to warrant a visit. Check it out! 

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