This year, the Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World – in its fourth edition – will take place from November, 18 to 24. The event aims at promoting Italy’s agri-food industry and the tradition of high-quality food and wine which is a key aspect of the Italian identity and culture.
“wines that are made for commercial purposes and exist merely as
products have their place alongside all such commodities: soda,
breakfast cereal, vacuum-cleaner bags. they can be enjoyable and
useful, but they don’t matter”
Tall Tale Wines is a small winery that does not have a fixed location but sources premium quality grapes from the South Okanagan. Tall Tale, which makes fine wine in small batches using a completely natural approach, released its first wines in 2017.
Innovative and new ‘Vines & Spines’ monthly wine and book club has now been launched by local BC
Winery. The subscription membership includes a new release book (in paper or audible form) and a bottle of Waterside wine delivered monthly.
La Terrazza and Vinea Wines welcome Azienda DeMarie winery owner Paolo Demarie for a Majestic Dinner Experience “The Terroir Of Piemonte ” Friday, November 8th. Tickets now available italo@nullvinea.ca or 604-657-6647
From Monday, October 28 to Sunday, November 3, AnnaLena will be presenting a thoughtful Fall Harvest menu focusing on favourites of the season. The latest dinner series from AnnaLena is just the thing for this time of year – a prix-fixe menu featuring five courses from the award-winning culinary team.
About 200 CheckMate wine club members and their guests strolled about the spacious areas in the room that was set with wine and food pairing stations. In the library you could pair your choice of Chardonnay with a delectable crab cake or discover another corner of the room and enjoy a different selection of Chardonnay with the never ending array of bite size sushi.
Harvest 2019 is in full swing and we are happy to announce that our 2017 Meritage is officially released, available only online and at our wine shop. This special blend is hand crafted by Charlie- he began making this wine while pruning in the early spring of 2017.
Created for those who love good food and wine, the 55-seat eatery was designed by Vancouver based Nahal Gamini Design. The room immerses guests in a bright and modern setting, incorporating elements of the outdoors in with wood tables, a cork bar front, greenscape wall, and a reclaimed wood 12-seater bar.
Try the unexpected! Taste these less common indigenous grape varietals from the Master of Wine Barb Philip’s annual Flavours of Italy selection of premium Italian wines. They are traditional and very popular in their regions – yet still not fully discovered in British Columbia. Cin cin!