Discover all sorts of wine flavors from the Northwest this November 15 as the Memorial Coliseum Exhibit Hall in Portland’s Rose Quarter hosts the Northwest Food and Wine festival where hundreds of wine types and food to sample will be featured in the attempt to let its patrons find new tastes in wine and food from new restaurants in the area.
The event will feature two major happenings which are mainly food and wine tasting, namely the Grand Food and Wine Tasting and the Preferred Tasting. The Grand Food and Wine Tasting will hold its general admission from 5 to 9 in the evening until it admits 2,000 participants at $75 per person. The Preferred Tasting will allow 500 participants to take another hour to drink and sample as well as meet winemakers and chefs from 4 to 9 in the evening at $95 per person.
Interested parties may inquire at info@nwfoodandwinefestival.com for more information. Everyone who joins will be given a commemorative wine glass after the event.
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There have been a varied set of opinions coming from many players in the British Columbia Wine industry regarding the promulgation of the new Regulations and Enforcement Agency, a new regulating body to be headed by the British Columbia Wine Authority where, based on the Wines of Marked Quality regulations, entities producing wine for commercial purposes must follow a set of guidelines and standards for winemaking and labeling.
This new promulgation was set to ensure that all winemakers in the industry at least enter the market with a fixed set of minimum quality for the benefit it their consumers.
While the British Columbia Wine Institute, of which 90% of its constituents represent the British Columbia wine industry, welcomes this idea of regulation, the Association of British Columbia Winegrowers – specifically over 30 of its members – is seeking legal advice on the matter, saying that law that has been issued was not what they expected. The matters of disagreement are based on issues of discrimination in terms of how the policy limits access to the provincial government approved VQA wine stores.
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News on wine production practice is disturbing the industry when it pointed out that wine producers might be fooling its consumers of its contents. Certain writers have been pointing out that some wine products that are said to be produced on a lesser budget are using oak chips to make it look like as if the wine has been fermented in traditional oak barrels along with other additive ingredients that that would improve the taste of inferior grapes that do not get listed in the ingredients.
Comments against these rumors have pointed out that this might just be something to cause a scandal among the consumers, since no media release with any grounding proof has ever been published and that most sources on this have no proof at all.
Wine authorities such as the Wins & Spirit Trade association have declared that the use of oak chips, yeast, sugar and other winemaking agents has been practiced legitimately and generally in the wine industry for a long time now, and it’s not something they exactly “hide” from the public.
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Grape Pomace – leftover grape skin, pulp and seeds from the wine making process – becomes a new source of clean and green electrical energy for locals as two distinct companies, namely Vincor Canada and Vandermeer Greenhouses announces their partnership to pool their resources into making this innovative environmental endeavor a reality.
The concept behind the endeavor is called anaerobic digestion, where methane gas (a by product of organic decomposition) is harvested to generate electricity. Vincor will be supplying the grape pomace from its major wine factories to power the partner Greenhouses as well as Ontario Hydro grid. This way, the approximate 3,500 tons of factory waste which is the grape pomace could be made of great use not only by powering major Niagara greenhouses and giving clean electricity to nearby regions but by introducing a new environment friendly practice as well. Other Canadian wineries are expected to join the project in time.
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