Canadian Wine Awards
The Canadian Wine Awards were created by Wine Access magazine to promote the burgeoning Canadian wine industry. The awards are especially significant because only wines that are one hundred percent Canadian grown, fermented and bottled are eligible to participate. Many made in Canada wines are actually blends of varying degrees of juice from other countries. Quite often a wine label will say “cellared in Canada” which does not require it to have any Canadian grapes what-so-ever even if it has a beautiful picture of a Niagara vineyard or has been specifically bottled for the Vancouver Olympics.
Mission Hill in the beautiful Okanagan Valley is last year’s winner of this prestigious award and will be hosting a number of wine maker’s dinners, along with Wine Access magazine, across Canada in order to celebrate the 2008 awards. This is a great opportunity to sample Mission Hills award winning wines and participate in a tutored wine tasting lead by Anthony Gismondi, editor of the magazine and one of Canada’s premier wine critics.
A wine pairing dinner follows at some of Canada’s most acclaimed restaurants. The celebration starts on July 9th at Canoe in Toronto, or out west you can join them at The Blue Water Cafe on July 23 and July 24th finds them at Teatro in Calgary. Call the restaurants for tickets.
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