Celebrate Year of The Sheep with Haywire Lunar Wines
Haywire Lunar New Year White 2013 features an artistically designed Chinese character of the “sheep”, crafted by Haywire Winery to welcome the Year of the Sheep in 2015 and to pair perfectly with Asian cuisine. Isabel Wu Photography
With the dynamic Asian dining culture in Vancouver and the holiday season fast approaching, Okanagan Crush Pad owners, Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie bring back a special limited release of Haywire Lunar New Year wines to enhance the local, Asian dining experience.
Try pairing Seared Sable Fish with Haywire Lunar New Year Red 2012.
When Haywire wines released its first Lunar New Year wines in Winter 2014, along with their Asian Pairing Flavours with BC Wines Program, 60 cases of this specialty wine sold out within days as the Asian community in BC prepared for their most important annual family celebration, Lunar New Year.
To meet the high demand of Lunar New Year wines, Haywire increased this year’s production and released 200 cases each of the red and white Lunar New Year wines which launched on December 1st, 2014.
This second release of BC’s first purpose-built wine is a unique holiday gift to celebrate Lunar New Year and to welcome the Year of the Sheep, while embracing the bounty of our local Summerland wine. Reflecting the personality of the Sheep in the Chinese Zodiac, the 2015 Haywire Lunar New Year wine label features an artistically designed Chinese symbol of “sheep” on colours of gold and red for good luck, prosperity, and happiness.
Coletta shares, “We’re so excited for the return of our second annual Haywire Lunar New Year wines. The Lunar New Year wine is the key we have been looking for to connect Vancouver’s vibrant Asian food scene and BC’s finest wines.”
Read on to learn about this special bottling, dos and don’ts for pairing, and to access recipes and photos click here.
A Special BC Wine
A limited release of only 200 cases each, the wines were created in celebration of the Lunar New Year and to welcome the Year of the Sheep.
Haywire Lunar New Year Red 2012 ($23.00) and Haywire Lunar New Year White 2013 ($20.00) have been created to work in perfect harmony with local cuisine found in our Asian community.
The Lunar Red is made from Gamay Noir grapes with a small amount of Syrah. Bright blackberry fruit and fresh juicy finish with slight caramel notes.
Loaded with meaty, white pepper aromas and flavours with a long, earthy finish.
Pair with stir fried vegetables, grilled sable fish, BBQ duck, or enjoy on its own.
The Lunar White is a blend of Gewürztraminer, Chardonnay, and Viognier which exhibits fresh lifted aromatics of spice and floral notes. A lush mouthfeel coats the palate with tropical fruit while retaining delicacy and freshness.
Pair with fresh steamed seafood, seafood soup, fried noodles or rice, or enjoy on its own.
To order the wines or learn where else to find it, contact Whitney Law at the winery at 604-800-0601 | whitney@nullokanagancrushpad.com
A Delicious Initiative
Long life noodles (E-Fu Mein), paired with Haywire Lunar New Year White.
Coupled with this wine release, Haywire has also developed a food and wine pairing initiative for the Asian market. The team worked with well-known food author and broadcaster Stephanie Yuen and journalist and food stylist Nathan Fong to develop a program and guide of how to pair flavours from various parts of Asia with the flavour profiles that emerge from BC wines. The results are truly delicious and are aimed to get people to think of pairing wine with Asian cuisine both at home and while dining out.
There are misconceptions that only sweeter wines or big bold reds are the only choices that are made for Asian cuisines and entertaining situations.
As an example of the program, consider Long Life Noodles, paired with Haywire Lunar New Year White 2013. The winery has made it easy: click here for recipes by Nathan Fong, photographed by John Sherlock.
Okanagan Crush Pad, producer of Haywire and Narrative wines, is quickly building a reputation as one of the premium producers in the Okanagan. The winemaking team includes world renowned Tuscan-based consultant Alberto Antonini, wine expert David Scholefield, and winemaker Matt Dumayne.
Located in beautiful Summerland, BC, the winery overlooks Switchback vineyard, an organic site that is also home to roaming sheep and chickens. Okanagan Crush Pad crafts wines that are symbolic of the region’s unique high mountain/northern desert setting which has an intensely hot, short growing season with hallmark cool evenings.
The winery is the first in Canada to extensively use concrete tanks and wines that are fermented and aged in concrete carry the Raised in Concrete™ designation. Visitors to the guest center, built right into the heart of the production facility, get a rare glance into the art of winemaking.
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