Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival
The 4th annual Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival, a celebration of Vancouver Island’s food and wine, takes place this Saturday and Sunday, September 20-21. The Cowichan Valley is 45 minutes north of Victoria, B.C. and boasts the longest growing season in Canada; it’s name actually means “warm land.”
At the festival you will find wine tasting seminars, dinners, theatre under the stars, and even glass blowing demonstrations. A lot of the events are free so head on down whether you have tickets or not.
The west coast version of Feast of Fields also takes place this Sunday at Victorian Epicure Vineyard in Victoria B.C. The original 19-year-old Toronto version took place last weekend and was, as usual, a rousing success (although I did have one report for a very good source that the portions were skimpy, but I was not there so feel free to dispute this opinion).
If anyone goes to any of these fetes, please update us foodies who are too far afield to participate. We would like to live vacariously through your foodie descriptions.
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