Festivities throughout the month include prix fixe menus, Bordeaux flights and two-for-one specials at select bars and restaurants, a Bordeaux suite package and a kickoff celebration

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The Venetian and The Palazzo Las Vegas are pleased to present the second annual Festivino, a celebration of Bordeaux throughout the entire month of October. Produced in the Bordeaux region of France, Bordeaux wine ranges from everyday table wine to some of the most expensive spirits in the world. The Venetian and The Palazzo are honoring this esteemed wine with special menus and offers throughout the resorts and kicking off with a wine tasting on Friday, Sept. 30. Other specials offered through October include prix fixe menus at select restaurants, Bordeaux flights and two-for-one Bordeaux by the glass at select bars and restaurants and a Bordeaux suite package.

“Bordeaux is one of the world’s most prestigious wine-producing regions in the world and we’re excited to celebrate its esteemed wines with our guests throughout October,” said Sebastien Silvestri, vice president of Food and Beverage for The Palazzo and The Venetian. “Whether you’re a casual wine drinker or a connoisseur, we are offering guests many ways to try and enjoy delicious Bordeaux.”

On Friday, Sept. 30, from 7 to 9 p.m., The Palazzo will kick off Festivino with a Bordeaux tasting event featuring acclaimed wineries such as Château Giscours and Reserve de Barons de Rothschild red and white with small bites from featured restaurants in the waterfall atrium and gardens. Guests will be able to mingle and learn about the wines from master sommeliers while surrounded by the impressive fall-inspired atrium décor. Highlights this year include 20-foot fall and bittersweet trees, 10,000 grape clusters and 30 wine casks surrounding the atrium. More than 1,000 pounds of wine corks will be on display, all donated from the resorts’ bars and restaurants, to be recycled after the décor transition.

Tickets for the wine tasting are $40 inclusive of taxes and fees ($35 inclusive of taxes and fees for Grazie members) and can be purchased at www.venetian.com/festivino or at any Venetian | Palazzo box office.

From Oct. 1 through Oct. 31, guests can enjoy flights of quality Bordeaux wines such as Chateau Greysac 2007, Chateau La Sirene de Gisours 2005 and Chateau Cosse, Sauternes at casino bars and lounges including La Scena, Oculus, Laguna Champagne Bar and Salute. Restaurants at The Venetian offering two-for-one Bordeaux by the glass include Aquaknox, TAO Asian Bistro and Valentino while The Palazzo restaurants include LAVO, Double Helix, FIRST Food & Bar, Lagasse’s Stadium, SushiSamba, Table 10 and Zine.

Two of The Venetian and The Palazzo’s acclaimed restaurants will offer $75 prix fixe menus with Bordeaux pairings throughout the month. At Morels French Steakhouse & Bistro, winner of Wine Spectator’s Best of Award of Excellence in 2010 and 2011, guests will enjoy a first course of Bibb lettuce and Dungeness crab salad with orange segments, orange supremes and Tarragon vinaigrette paired with Blason Timberlay Bordeaux 2009. The second course tenderloin of beef with baby carrots, pencil asparagus, potato fondant and sauce Bordelaise is accompanied by Chateau d’Arthus Bordeaux 2009 while the dessert course of vanilla crème brulee with sweet cream and fresh berries is paired with Tirecul la Gravière ‘Les Pins’ Monbazillac 2007.

James Beard Award winner Joachim Splichal’s and Wine Spectator’s Best of Award of Excellence honoree since 2003, Pinot Brasserie at The Venetian, will offer diners a first course selection from endive salad with shaved shaved foie gras terrine and truffle vinaigrette or lobster bisque with lobster medaillon and caviar paired with Champagne, Louis de Sacy, Brut Originel, Verzy, France, N.V. Entree selection includes loup de mer with English peas and serrano ham; lamb saddle with salsify, white asparagus, and lamb jus; or filet mignon with langoustine, potato mousseline, truffled beef jus accompanied with Chateau de Bel, Bordeaux Superieur, 2009. Finish the meal with choice of dessert from grenadine orange supreme soup with orange sorbet and orange crisp or roasted strawberry with vanilla balsamic black pepper reduction and Humboldt fog goat cheese paired with Sauternes, Chateau de Cosse. Guests can also savor a selection of three French cheeses, chosen personally by Executive Chef Eric Lhuiller, complemented by a flight of three Bordeaux wines including Château Graville-Lacoste, Graves, 2009; Château Bonnet, Andre Lurton, 2007; and Château Doisy-Védrines, 2003. Cheese and wine flight is $30 per guest.

Adding to the festive month, The Venetian and The Palazzo are also offering a Bordeaux suite package through October that includes Luxury Suite rates starting at $169 per night, with a complimentary bottle of white Bordeaux delivered in-suite on the first night’s stay and a complimentary bottle of red Bordeaux and cheese board delivered in-suite on the second night’s stay. The package also includes complimentary line pass and admission to LAVO Nightclub (not available Oct. 28-30.) For additional information on the Bordeaux suite package, please visit www.palazzo.com/bordeauxsuite.

Silvestri added, “We’d like to thank Sopexa, a company that supports and promotes French agriculture and produce, and our restaurant partners for participating in this fabulous culinary event.”