“Bollicine Italiane” 🇮🇹
Italian Bubbles Tasting Seminar
Lively and bubbly room of sparkling fans @whistlercornucopia
Thank you for all the attendees who were a pleasure to engage with and share an all-star lineup of Italian pearls.
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Gratitude for the gracious support from our BC Agencies, reps and Italian wineries 🙏🏼
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Intimate and rich exchange of information and ideas while loving the broad range of deliciousness that Gamay delivers. A rare opportunity to taste and explore BC’s best expressions of this delightful and versatile grape.
Great reference point icon #Jean-PaulBrun @terresdorees
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Special shout out to @bluemtnwinery for graciously reaching into their library reserves 🙏🏼
Silence of the Lambruscos 🇮🇹
Surprise and delight with an enthusiastic and curious audience. Fun and social, makes it a treat to present @whistlercornucopia
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Gratitude 🙏🏼 for all the incredible industry support from Agents, reps and wineries.
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“Top Value Wines”
was a pleasure to present to an audience thirsty for new experiences and knowledge.
I was delighted with the engagement level of our attendees.
Great questions!
Hopefully you found some delicious new discoveries and values.
DM me for details.
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Gratitude 🙏🏼 for all the amazing support from BC Agencies, reps and wineries!!!!
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Hold on for the ride!
I am honoured to be presenting four 🍷tasting seminars at Whistler Cornucopia 2023
“Top Value Wines”
“Silence of the Lambruscos”
“Love Gamay”
“Bollicine Italiane-Italian Bubbles”
@whistlercornucopia
Saturday November 11th and Sunday November 12th, 2023
Tickets 🎟️ available now https://www.whistlercornucopia.com/food-drink-seminars
I’m looking forward to seeing you there!
Looking to expand your Italian Wine Portfolio ?
I’m embarking on another prospecting mission to Northern Italy 🇮🇹 and will love to discuss my winery introduction services with you.
DM me, ☎️ or email
http://www.tythewineguy.com
I am very honoured to be presenting three tasting seminars at Whistler Cornucopia 2022.
“Top Value Wines” I’m co-presenting with the delightful Mya Brown on Remembrance Day 4pm Friday November 11th. It’ll be a vinous variety thrill-ride of our current favourite values. Buy early as this is a perennial sell out!
“Silence of the Lambruscos” will delight and surprise you with the delicious range of dry, artisan, craft Lambruscos. You’ll bubble over with excitement as we explore the mosaic of different Lambrusco varieties and styles. 2pm Saturday November 12th
“Rosé, Italian Style” is a tasty explosion of Italy’s blushing embarrassment of Rosato – Italian rosé. Italy thinks and drinks pink in almost every wine-producing corner of the country often made with indigenous local varietals. Join me on an alt-pink tasting journey 2:30pm Sunday November 13th
Giving it a second shot!
Relax we are double vaxxed. Tastings, dinners and a cautious sense of celebration carry through Whistler and visiting community.
It is a privilege and a great pleasure to be presenting again this year.
KurtisKolt and I take the stage Saturday 13th morning to showcase ten of our “Top Value Wines” with our usual banter, snappy wit and usual charm. Attendees will appreciate a solid range of origins, varietals and styles as we support our selections with a bit of eno-edutainment.
The next day Sunday the 14th, it is my honour to present “Clos du Soleil: Terroir of the Similkameen” Clos du Soleil is easily one of BC’s top wineries and is a beacon of Similkameen quality wine craft. I will take you for a tour of the region, highlighting the climatic, geographic and environmental differences. “Rugged, Rustic and Real” defines the Similkameen. You will taste eight of the wines of Clos du Soleil from their organic and biodynamic vineyards. Sip the Similkameen
“Silence of the Lambruscos” starts around 2pm Sunday the 14th and is a not to missed opportunity to be introduced to real, true Lambrusco. Craft Lambrusco. We will explore the family of Lambrusco varietals and discover the mosaic of different dry styles. Artisanal Ancestrale methods and the Martinotti methods that are guaranteed to put a sparkle in your step.
Hope to see you there at Cornucopia Whistler 2021 #cornucopia2021 WhistlerCornucopia.com
Amazing visit tour and tasting @averillcreek in “The Provence of Canada” 🇨🇦
Enjoyed their great stone terrace and tasting/sales floor hosted by a delightful crew @courtneyg_84 @kaliphilp @marygarcia801
Founded in 2001
MD and Entrepreneur Andy Johnston and partner @wendyjohnston2016
carved out the vineyards and winery on the slopes of Mt. Prevost
118 – 240 meters above Sea Level
Cowichan means “Warm Land” – #FunFact the area is located in Canada’s only Maritime Mediterranean climatic zone.
New plantings of Chenin Blanc and Gamay (yay!) will broaden the range of varietals
Will be very interested in what @averillcreek winemaker Brent Rowland @brenowino creates next
with his low-intervention, craft wines proving themselves wine community favourites.
From vineyard to glass.
Go visit! You will be very glad you did.
Represented and distributed by @masseywines available direct from the winery, at select private retailers and thoughtfully curated restaurant lists near you.
We are very honoured to win the Gold Award for CulinaireMagazine’s Finest Italian Liquor Store Selection British Columbia 2020 at The Village Liquor Store, West Vancouver.
As the world’s 5 largest export market for Italian wines, Canada clearly has a crush on Italy.
There is no one way with Italian wine. Italy is deep and highly diversified and in its modern infancy. Italian wine is simultaneously ancient and futuristic! You see that reflected in our selections of producers, broad regional representations, focussed on less travelled denominations and incredible comfort in offering you something varietally exotic and “I never heard of…”
The Pandemic has changed how wine influencers, sommeliers and wine pros interact with guests. Some have gone virtual with Zoom or other platforms, others digital with online stores, all the while brick & mortar retailers like us have been somm-ing every damn day since March.
With significantly more time and money being spent on in-home dining and enotaining, retailers more than ever are the in person go to’s for wine culture connections. We like to say (while physically distanced and wearing masks of course) that “We sell knowledge as much as wine, and pleasure, and human contact”
We have gone out of our way to curate an affordable “Bere Bene” Italian selection of organic, biodynamic, vegan, sustainable and natural wines that include sparkling, pet-nat, refermented in bottle, metodo ancestrale and col fondo offerings. Our efforts are supported by a diverse younger clientele and the wine curious of all ages. We engage our patrons with in-person one on one caring wine guidance that connects our audience with the wines story, back to the land, the culinary culture and the people that created it.
Informative, descriptive, and entertaining shelf talkers unleash a “Silent Sales Force” for those who prefer to self shop. We reinforce our attention getters with social media posts that provide deeper narratives with the aim making fun + funky wine culture more accessible, approachable, and digitally shareable.
We wish you good health now and into the future.
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Drink well my friends.
tythewineguy 