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FOOD/DRINK/MORE COMPLIMENTARY TASTE© HERE COMES THE SUN GRAY MONK ESTATE WINERY The story of an Okanagan founding family 8 PASO ROBLes, CALIFORNIA Warm days, cool nights, great wine 28 PUT YOUR feet UP! Have your home event catered 36 BRITISH COLUMBIA CRAFT BEER Small batches of BC’s best 42 OVER 50 NEW RECIPES InSIDE FOOD/DRINK/MORE TA S T E © 42 SiGNATURE 73CS N’ ON ULTA TS CHOICE SELECTIONS Bill Michael, LDB Portfolio 74 sUMMER RUM Manager, Recommends: COCKTAILS BC Craft Beers three new tastes created 46 A-MAIZE-ING by Chambar’s Starsc all about corn 76C BEA HSIDE FORNO 50D sHA ES OF PINK a taste of the good life a hue for every occasion 84G O COCONUTS! a tough (but delicious) 55 FLAVOURS nut to crack of summer 46 90 LOIRE VALLEY VOYAGE 56 N BC WI E a virtual journey along 100 4 SUMMER WHITES AND TOUR 2011 France’s longest river the hot stops and must-visits SPARKLERS 110 ASIAN saLADS ratcheting up your of BC’s Okanagan 94I CHERRY-P CKED salads spiced-up for summer refreshment factor feast on the 60 nORTH ARM faRM Okanagan’s finest 114S UMMER PA TA 8RO G AY M NK the organic pride garden-fresh of Pemberton 100 ApEriTIF, ESTATE WINERY APERITIVO, the story of an Okanagan 64 EXOTIC and 118 E VERY SP CIAL EVENTS founding family APÉRO UNUSUAL FRUIT late afternoon traditions 121 RECIPE INDEX 13OT H from cherimoya to rambutan summer’s most wanted 104 sKEWERS AND SIDES 70 baR STARS bring the world to your Justin Tisdall and backyard grill 14Z SIZ LE, SMOKE Wendy McGuinness from AND SAUCE Chambar Restaurant the secret to barbecue wines 108 ASK an EXPERT 18 ULTIMATE AND ALTERNATIVE BURGERS raising the bar on burgers 22 LEMONADE COCKTAILS AND SMALL BITES what to do when life gives you lemons 27W NE this just in! COVER 28 PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA VILLA TERESA ROSÉ veNETO warm days, cool nights, VINO FRIZZANTE great wines Italy $16.15 826875 This organic, spritzy, blushing pink 32E FR SH AND VEGETARIAN rosé is bright and floral with sweet make a summer meal meatless berry and patchouli aromas. There are berries and cream with some 36 PUT YOUR FEET UP! candied citrus peel flavours on the have your home event finish. A perfect wine to serve with a catered 84 cheese and antipasti platter. The newest member of our Royal Family. New Crown Royal Black. Bold Taste. Legendary Smoothness. © Diageo Canada inc. 2011. All rights reserved. Tous droits réservés. PLEASE ENJOY RESPONSIBLY DCCR_110185_CR_Black_NewMember_TasteFP_Final.indd 1 11-04-11 10:16 AM FOOD/DRINK/MORE TASTE© Visit www.bcliquorstores.com to locate The newest member any product sold at BC Liquor Stores and for current pricing information. THIS Issue’s CONTRIBUTORS OUR SYMBOLS of our Royal Family. Country of Origin Organic BC VQA Wines BC Craft Beer CAROLYN EVANS-HAMMOND JUDITH LANE B est-selling author, seasoned journalist Judith Lane is a Vancouver-based Sweetness Code Kosher and UK-educated sommelier Carolyn wine, food and travel writer who Evans-Hammond makes wine accessible contributes to the Georgia Straight, with her witty and light approach to the City Food and BC Restaurant News EDITOR-IN-CHIEF topic. Her latest book, Good Better Best among other publications. Judith will Paulette Parry Wines, ranks North America’s most go almost anywhere for a good story popular wines and quickly soared to #1 wine guide on Amazon. and a glass of wine! MANAGING EDITOR | ART DIRECTOR ca. Internationally recognized, Carolyn catalogues her work at Pauline White www.wine-tribune.com. EDITOR | ADVertiSING Contact Lavaughn Larson 604-252-3094 BLL I MICHAEL daenna VAN mulligen ASSIStant editor B ill Michael is the Portfolio Manager Daenna Van Mulligen is a wine responsible for buying beer, journalist, wine judge, sommelier Susanne Knight refreshment beverages and wines of and publisher of winediva.ca and GRAPHIC DESIGNER Australia and New Zealand for BC winescores.ca. She can be heard weekly Liquor Stores. Starting as Store Clerk across Canada on “The Tasting Room” Deborah Burns Johnson, CGD 32 years ago, Bill moved through the radio show and contributes to several PRODUCT CONSULTANT ranks from Clerk to Assistant Manager to Senior Store local and national publications. Cindy Gray Manager and then finally to Portfolio Manager, a position he has enjoyed for the past eight years. ADVERTISING ARTWORK SUBMISSION CONTACT Diane Smallwood 604-252-2904 JAMEE S N VISON TMPWI A SEY James Nevison is an award-winning Tim Pawsey is known to Vancouver PhotographY wine writer and educator and the Courier readers for his restaurant Ken Mayer Studios co-founder of HALFAGLASS. He is reviews and wine picks. He also writes the wine columnist for The Vancouver on drinks for the North Shore News FOOD STYLISTS Province, where his wine column “The (with articles often picked up by outlets Nathan Fong Wine Guy” appears each Thursday. such as the Calgary Herald and the Lawren Moneta James is the co-author of six national best-selling books on National Post) as well as for WHERE Vancouver and Northwest Murray Bancroft wine, and his next publication Had a Glass: Top 100 Wines for Palate. He co-edits the Zagat Survey for Vancouver and is 2012 Under $20 is scheduled to be released this Fall. a director of the BC Hospitality Foundation. Follow him at PRINTER hiredbelly.com and twitter.com/hiredBelly Mitchell Press Prices are subject to change without notice. Prices include applicable taxes. In the event of any error RHS Y PENDER barb ARA philip or omission published in this magazine, the product R hys Pender became Canada’s youngest B arbara Philip, Master of Wine, is description and display price in the liquor store will Master of Wine in 2010. He is a wine the Portfolio Manager responsible prevail. Products in this publication will be available educator, consultant, judge and freelance for selecting European wines for writer through his company Wine Plus+ BC Liquor Stores. Barbara has a as of June 2011. Quantities may be limited. Items and his website www.rhyspender.com. long history working as a sommelier with very limited quantities are distributed He is a regular contributor to Wine and wine educator and in 2007 only to Signature BC Liquor Stores. Access, Montecristo and Savour. In 2008 Rhys was named one became the first Western Canadian to achieve the Master of the “Top 40 Foodies Under 40 in Western Canada”by of Wine designation. Barbara also works as a freelance Head Office: 2625 Rupert Street, Western Living magazine. lecturer, radio columnist and wine judge with her company Vancouver, BC V5M 3T5 Barbariain Wine Consulting. Phone 604-252-3000 • Fax 604-252-3099 Email [email protected] JOANNE SASVARI KL ASEY WI SON Joanne Sasvari is a Vancouver-based Kasey Wilson is an award-winning writer who covers fashion, travel, food Vancouver-based food and travel and drink and lifestyle. She writes the writer and broadcaster. She is food weekly “In Good Spirits” column for editor of Wine Access magazine and The Vancouver Sun, is the BC Chair editor of Best Places Vancouver. Her of the Travel Media Association and articles have appeared in National www.bcliquorstores.com author of the book Paprika: A Spicy Memoir from Hungary Geographic Traveler, Bon Appétit and Gastronomica. The New Crown Royal Black. (CanWest Books, 2006). author of eight non-fiction books, Kasey is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the Bold Taste. Legendary Smoothness. Association of Food Journalists. © Diageo Canada inc. 2011. All rights reserved. Tous droits réservés. PLEASE ENJOY RESPONSIBLY TASTE magazine is printed on 30 percent recycled paper using 100 percent vegetable ink. TASTE 3 DCCR_110185_CR_Black_NewMember_TasteFP_Final.indd 1 11-04-11 10:16 AM SUMMERWHITES & SPAL RK ers 4 www.bcliquorstores.com by Carolyn Evans-Hammond ALNL WI E CONTAINS SOME acID. IT’S the COMPONENT that GIVES IT FRESHNess. TAKE A SIP AND salIVATE – that’S acIDITY. IT tastes taRT AND IT IS A VITAL COMPONENT OF A GOOD GLASS OF WINE, paRTICULARLY whITE. ines relatively high in reasonably low in alcohol, something acid, such as Pinot Grigio, supremely drinkable. Vinho Verde, CUC P Ake VINEYARDS WVerdicchio and Muscadet, Grüner Veltliner and German Riesling CHARDONNAY make great beat-the-heat drinks. They immediately spring to mind. They tend U SA $14.99 143776 come off as bracing, especially chilled to be high in acidity and brimming What a fitting name for this rich and creamy, vanilla- down a few degrees to ratchet up that with zingy citrus-squirt flavours. They scented Chardonnay. refreshment factor. But summer has its are great on their own or maybe with a Polished tropical fruit, share of damp days and cooler nights too handful of salted nuts, but paired with integrated oak and appealing notes of melting and these times call for fuller-bodied, spicy chicken skewers straight off the caramel combine with “comfort wine” whites where the acid is grill, they’re magic. warm spice on the finish, a hidden beneath richer flavours. full-bodied and stylish, yet soul-warming wine. More than the weather influences R ICHLY TEXTURED TREATS wine selection. Bubbles add sparkle to a Drizzly days and chilly evenings call celebratory moment and fruit-forward for something to swathe the palate. An thrillers get the party started, while oaked Chardonnay with its creamy subtler styles can add instant elegance dimension, a fat Semillon with its to an occasion – taking it up a notch. almost oily texture or a mouth coating, Style matters and matching the summer generous Pinot Gris fits the bill.