The Wine Barbarian outside Saturday night's wine festival
With over 183 different wineries from 15 unique countries providing over 1600 wines it is literally impossible to advise anyone attending tonight's Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival tasting which wines to try.
But I can give you a few recommendations based on my three visits to the tasting room so far!
I've had great wines from all over but here's a few wineries or tables with one or more wineries represented that you should not miss:
Long Shadows - From Walla, Walla Washington - big beautiful reds and a killer riesling - I bought some and don't even like rielsling that much!
Inland Trading - always some of the best Australian shiraz available - including from the fabulous Rolf Binder.
Majella Wines - Some of Coonawarra's nicest wines - cab, shiraz and sparkling.
Deutz - Champagne, including a vintage 1998 that will make you consider the second mortgage needed to buy a case - at $175 a bottle, one of the Festival's most expensive.
Catena - Viva Malbec! But also a great reserve cabernet sauvignon.
Magnanimus Wine Group - All organic wines from Mendocino, California - try especially the Old River Road cabernet.
Byron - If you saw Sideways - the movie - you know that Santa Barbara makes delicious pinot noir and chardonnay - great stuff here.
Working Horse Winery - Wines from this new BC organic winery from veteran Tilman Hainle can only be tried at Puddifoot's display and tasting from the fantastic Riedel glasses - the only glasses I use at home. Tilman was BC's first organic winemaker and his new pinot noir ice wine is unbelievable - and unbelievably rare!
Osoyoos Larose - This BC-French joint venture in the Okanagan is producing amazing Bordeaux-blend wines - not surprising when the French half is Gruaud Larose!
Olivier Leflaive Wines - Best chardonnay in the house -the $115 Puligny-Montrachet premier cru Champ Gain - formidable! Magnifique!
But there's so much more - I hope you have a chance to taste some of it, as the Festival is of course, sold out!
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But I can give you a few recommendations based on my three visits to the tasting room so far!
I've had great wines from all over but here's a few wineries or tables with one or more wineries represented that you should not miss:
Long Shadows - From Walla, Walla Washington - big beautiful reds and a killer riesling - I bought some and don't even like rielsling that much!
Inland Trading - always some of the best Australian shiraz available - including from the fabulous Rolf Binder.
Majella Wines - Some of Coonawarra's nicest wines - cab, shiraz and sparkling.
Deutz - Champagne, including a vintage 1998 that will make you consider the second mortgage needed to buy a case - at $175 a bottle, one of the Festival's most expensive.
Catena - Viva Malbec! But also a great reserve cabernet sauvignon.
Magnanimus Wine Group - All organic wines from Mendocino, California - try especially the Old River Road cabernet.
Byron - If you saw Sideways - the movie - you know that Santa Barbara makes delicious pinot noir and chardonnay - great stuff here.
Working Horse Winery - Wines from this new BC organic winery from veteran Tilman Hainle can only be tried at Puddifoot's display and tasting from the fantastic Riedel glasses - the only glasses I use at home. Tilman was BC's first organic winemaker and his new pinot noir ice wine is unbelievable - and unbelievably rare!
Osoyoos Larose - This BC-French joint venture in the Okanagan is producing amazing Bordeaux-blend wines - not surprising when the French half is Gruaud Larose!
Olivier Leflaive Wines - Best chardonnay in the house -the $115 Puligny-Montrachet premier cru Champ Gain - formidable! Magnifique!
But there's so much more - I hope you have a chance to taste some of it, as the Festival is of course, sold out!
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Good picks!
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