Eat Wine Santiago 2012 Debut (Want a Free Copy?)

I have been hard at work on holiday season gift for you all (no Santa nor magic elves involved though). In fact, you’ll find a couple goodies in this post.

Let’s start with the one that is most time sensitive

Eat Wine Santiago 2012 is LIVE

That’s right, Eat Wine Santiago’s latest annual edition is now on sale. Woohoo!

It’s been a while in coming but it’s ready to roll. Here are the specs on the update of Santiago’s premier English-language guide to food, drink & travel:

Dozens of new restaurants: the culinary scene is seeing boom times and we have updated from new Korean barbeque joints to Peruvian Chifa and the hottest bars

New neighborhoods: There’s a renaissance happening in the barrios of the city and this guide is a low down to navigating these areas like Yungay and Italia

Primers on where to eat: Only in town a few days? Look at my personal recs on setting up your restaurants, thematically. Dive into a lesson on Chilean colloquial eats, Ethnic haunts, or farm-to-table.

Expanded wine list: need I say more? Every year I rack my brain and put my liver in danger to taste hundreds of wines. This is my short list of what you should be drinking in Chile.

New hotels and travel suggestions: Boutique hotels are on everybody lips and tourism is on fire in these latitudes. We’ll keep you plugged into that juice.

Sync to your device: As an e-book in PDF format, keep it on your iPad, Kindle, iPhone, or smart device to have it with you wherever you go.

For a limited time to celebrate the announcement, you can pre-order Eat Wine Santiago 2012 for 50% off the normal price. Instead of US$27, you pay US$13. The offer expires on December 31, 2011 at 11:59pm. You have read it. No exceptions. So pre-order your copy now or you’ll have to deal with paying full price. Your decision.

To celebrate the arrival of 2012, we’ll be sending out Eat Wine Santiago on New Year’s Day, that is, January 1, 2012 for all those pre-orders.

You can cancel anytime up to the ship date so there is no downside, only locked-in savings—and lots of yummy meals and wines in your very near future.

Why buy the new edition of Eat Wine Santiago? Four reasons:

You’re sick of getting stuck in mediocre restaurants: For less than one main course or bad bottle of wine, here’s your ticket to foodie bliss.

You actually want to cook at home: Where to get the goods? Though. Here you’ll find just about anything and everything—that’s not illegal.

You’re visiting Santiago: Cannot bare the thought of sacrificing a meal to a bad recommendation from a colleague? Now you know where to go. We are your local source.

You’re a wine buff abroad: You’re so over the big brands dominating everything and think Parker’s ratings are for the birds. Here’s your chance for comprehensive on-the-ground wine recs on the best Chilean juice out there.

So want your free copy of Eat Wine Santiago? We’re having a holiday contest to give away three free copies in honor of the announcement. Here’s what you need to do to be entered:

1) Get in the Holiday Spirit and Spread the word in next 72 hours: Send people to this blog post and get the word out. Facebook like, Facebook sharing, retweets, Tweets, e-mail everybody you know, e-mail signature. Get creative.

2) By 5pm EST on December 24th, leave a comment on this post telling me what you did. Please quantify the impact (clicks, page views, tweets, etc.) and follow these rules to be considered: