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Want to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to Park City, Utah? Here’swhat you need to knowfor the (long) weekend of Dec. 3-6:
GETTING THERE Delta has nonstop flights fromWashington Dulles to Salt Lake City for $494. Park City is about 40 miles southeast of the airport.
WHERE TO STAY St. Regis Deer Valley 2300 Deer Valley Dr. E. 435-940-5700
www.starwoodhotels.com Opened last November, this posh resort offers ski-in/ski-out access to Deer Valley Resort’s nearly 2,000 acres. Rooms from $475. Sky Lodge 201 Heber Ave. 435-658-2500
www.theskylodge.com All-suite hotel at the base of Main Street. Suites from $500.
HIGH WEST HighWest Distillery, tucked at the bottom of a ski hill, is the first legal distillery inUtah since the 1870s. It claims to be the only ski-in/ski-out distillery in the world. BY KELLY DINARDO Several years ago, at a West Virginia
ski resort, I stared dumbfounded at a glass of red wine that the waitress had just poured. The liquid skimmed the edge, forcing me to bring my mouth to the glass rather than the glass to my mouth.Obscenely full glasseswere forev- er after dubbed the “West Virginia pour.” So last winter, when I found myself
staring at a Thumbelina-size martini while perched at a bar in Park City, I looked up at my boyfriend and said, “Thismust be the Utah pour.” I assumed that the predominantly
Mormon state was attempting to thwart my apres-ski adventures.But as I studied the cocktail menu at the St. Regis Deer Valley bar, I noticed that many of the drinks, including the signature bloody mary, weremixed with liquor fromHigh West, a distillery in downtown Park City. I ordered the bloody mary, a St. Regis
specialty: The cocktail supposedly was created at the New York hotel, and each property today offers its own take. The Park City version was spicy, with a wasabi foam and a tiny baster-like vial filledwithmorewasabi-infused liquid so that drinkers could take up the heat level if they wanted to. As I learned over the next few days, when it comes to cocktail culture, the entire state of Utah is kicking it up a notch, with Park City in the lead. For decades, Utah had some of the
strictest andmost unusual liquor laws in the country. One mandated that would- be drinkers order food with a cocktail. Another necessitated buying a private
the only ski-in, ski-out distillery in the world. Tucked into an old livery stable at the bottomof a ski hill,HighWest is both a distillery and a saloon. From the bar made of trestlewood reclaimed fromthe Great Salt Lake railroad to the repur- posed barn wood facade that was used for the hostess stand, the space incorpo- rates pieces of Utah history in charming ways. Scientist-turned-distiller David Per-
kins studied with master distillers in Kentucky before creating his own hand- crafted, small-batch whiskey, gin and vodka.His Rendezvous RyeWhiskey has already won double gold at the San FranciscoWorld SpiritsCompetition and was named one of the top 10 new whiskies by the Malt Advocate, a presti- gious spiritsmagazine. After a tour, I pulled up a stool at the
clubmembershipwhen ordering a drink at a bar. And yet another required bartenders to remain separated from customers by a glass partition while mixing drinks. Former governor Jon Huntsman real-
ized that the state’s tourism industry would get quite a boost if the liquor laws were relaxed. Under his lead, Utah abol- ished several of its more puritanical regulations in the summer of 2009. Since then, the state has been shaking up its teetotaling image. Needing no further encouragement, I
set out to explore Park City cocktail culture. First stop: the aforementioned HighWest, the first legal distillery in the state since the 1870s, which claims to be
bar and sampled several High West spirits, first each on its own and then shaken into specialty cocktails such as the High West Cider, a mix of Rendez- vous Rye, amaretto and hot cider. The spirits find their way even into the food on the barmenu: A salad is dressed with a white-whiskey-and-chive vinaigrette, short ribs are braised in whiskey cider, and the burger is topped with caramel- ized whiskey onions. After a full day on the slopes at Deer
Crest, I swooshed right up to the St. Regis, let the ski valet help me off with my gear and made my way to J&G Grill. Beyond the hotel’s own cozy bar and lounge, the resort houses a Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant. Just before guestsmake theirway into the high-ceil- inged dining roomwith walnut beams, a gray-stoned fireplace and large windows
looking out onto the slopes, they pass a dark, cozy room with curved red booths and walls upholstered in black leather. This intimatewine vault,which stores
more than 6,000 bottles and houses more than 60 private wine lockers, was the second stop on my boozy cruise through Park City. The resorts’ develop- ers began working with Utah legislators to change the liquor lawswhen construc- tion on the property began, and after a few glasses of wine, I am even more grateful that they did. There are two brew pubs in Park City:
Squatters and Wasatch. The latter was my final stop. Owner Greg Schirf, a ski bum who started by brewing his own beer at home, opened Wasatch in 1986, making it the state’s first brewery since Prohibition. He wanted to expand, but the laws at the time made brew pubs illegal. Shirf worked with a sympathetic lawmaker, helped change the laws and opened the brewpub in 1989 at the top of Main Street. The pub dishes up yummy bar food
such as fish and chips, a buffalo burger and various pizzas. All of which are best washed down with one of the pub’s winkingly-named beers, such as the spicy Evolution Amber Ale or the dark Polygamy Porter. The tagline for the Polygamy Porter —
“Why have just one?”—turned out to be an accurate assessment of my Park City adventures. After four days of skiing and sipping, I had raisedmy glass repeatedly and could happily say cheers to the city’s apres attitude.
travel@washpost.com DiNardo is a freelance writer.
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WHAT TO DO Park City Mountain Resort 1310 Lowell Ave. 435-649-8111
www.parkcitymountain.com Features more than 3,000 acres for both skiers and snowboarders. Single-day lift ticket $89. The Canyons Resort 4000 The Canyons Resort Dr. 435-649-5400
www.thecanyons.com Nine-peak resort featuring 176 trails for skiers and snowboarders. Single-day lift ticket $89. Deer Valley Resort 435-649-1000
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INFORMATION
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—K.D.
All lodging and flight info valid as of press timeWednesday.
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WHERE TO EAT Wasatch BrewPub 250 Main St. 435-649-0900
www.wasatchbeers.com There’s indoor and patio seating at this brew pub. Sandwiches, salads and pizza $8 to $13. HighWest Distillery&Saloon 703 Park Ave. 435-649-8300
www.highwest.com Sandwiches and salads from $8 to $12, entrees such as bison rib-eye and elk starting at $18. J&G Grill 2300 Deer Valley Dr. E. 435-940-5760
www.jggrilldeercrest.com Airy dining room serving burgers to lobster. Entrees from $20.
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