...............All of our 2011 weekend events SOLD OUT!!................
...............Check back in January for 2012 information!................
Thursday July 21, 2011
1:30pm-4:00pm
Crystal Gardens
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Trade Taste Event
This British Columbia wine tasting is available to approved members of the food and beverage industry. This year, you do not need to register in advance. When you arrive at Crystal Garden, we would be pleased if you would support our beneficiary with a minimum $10 cash donation. Please register at the door with your full name and place of business for your nametag to be worn throughout the tasting.
No advance registration is necessary
PLEASE REGISTER AT THE DOOR
Vancouver Island & BC wines, spirits, and cider
Thursday July 21, 2011
6:30pm-9:00pm
Crystal Garden
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The Main Event: a cuisine and wine tasting
Tickets are $79 plus tax. TICKETS AVAILABLE ON LINE UNTIL noon THURSDAY. A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 1:00pm...
An array of island food products and produce
Island fish and seafood
Vancouver Island cuisineBritish Columbia Wines
Friday July 22, 2011
11:00am-12:00 pm
Silk Road
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Tea Tasting - A Guided Tea Journey
Experience a professional style cupping under the expert guidance of Daniela Cubelic, Tea Master. Taste an exquisite selection of teas as you learn the art of how to taste and understand tea, and assess it based on leaf appearance, aroma, colour, and more. Whether you’re a beginner or a tea lover already, you’re guaranteed to see tea in an entirely new light!
$10
teas from near and far with Daniela Cubelic, Tea Master
Friday July 22, 2011
6:30pm-9:30pm
Inn at Laurel Point
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Sips and Seafood
The Inn at Laurel Point extends a personal invitation to their renowned summer seafood event, Sips and Seafood. Join Executive Chef Takashi Ito and his team as they prepare a seafood feast from Finest at Sea right before your eyes. Wander through their backyard, glass of BC wine in one hand and tasting plate in the other. Chat with the fine FAS fishers and the chefs and learn about sustainable seafood. YOU MAY PURCHASE ENTRANCE ON LINE OR AT THE FRONT DESK OF THE INN AT LAUREL POINT.
$99
Vancouver Island Seafood with special guest Bob Fraumeni, owner of Finest At Sea (invited)Executive Chef Takashi Ito and team a selection of British Columbia wine featuring the Naramata Bench and Vancouver Island
plus Phillips Brewery, Victoria Spirits, and Silk Road
Sips and Seafood
Saturday July 23, 2011
11:00am-12:30pm
Finest At Sea
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Sustainable Seafood: Taste and Learn at Finest At Sea
Bob Fraumeni is fisherman and owner of Finest At Sea (FAS), Canada’s only 100% producer of known product origin seafood and sustainable seafood. Bob invites you to join him for an informative seafood session right at the plant in James Bay…just steps from downtown Victoria. ** This seminar is SOLD OUT**
$15
Bob Fraumeni, fisherman and owner,
along with tastes of Finest At Sea fish and seafood
Saturday July 23, 2011
2:00pm-4:30pm
The Pacific Restaurant
Hotel Grand Pacific
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Swine and The Vine
Ever heard of the Three Little Pigs? Well, the third annual Swine and the Vine has a much tastier ending! We will be featuring a delectable offering of handmade, pig related goodies for your pairing pleasure with a selection of BC wines, teas, ciders and other local gems we have fallen in love with over the past year. As always, the highlight will be the free-range boar which will be roasted on a spit on the patio and presented by Executive Chef Rick Choy and his talented team of culinary accomplices. This is an event unlike any other in Victoria, and a great way to spend an afternoon! PURCHASE ENTRANCE ON LINE OR AT THE FRONT DESK AT HOTEL GRAND PACIFIC.
$69
Vancouver Island Sloping Hill Farm pork Two Rivers free-range
boar and much moreExecutive Chef Rick Choy, Restaurant Chef Ian Goard, Director
of Operations Emory Haines, Food & Beverage, Manager Janis Goard British Columbia wines and cider
Swine and The Vine
Saturday July 23, 2011
4:00-5:45pm
Hotel Grand Pacific
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Vancouver Island Vs. The World - A Blind Tasting
Can wines from our backyard stand up to their international big brothers? This entertaining blind tasting of bubbly and a few key varietals will take you on a round the world journey ending here on Vancouver Island. Sommelier and International Sommelier Guild instructor Pamela Sanderson will lead the fun tasting along with special guest, BC wine writer, John Schreiner. Whether a wine novice or someone with a new interest in wine, you’ll appreciate the surprise and delight of this comparative tasting. This seminar is SOLD OUT!
$39
Pamela Sanderson, Sommelier and International Sommelier Guild instructor, John Schreiner, BC Wine Guru!
Vancouver Island and world wines tasted blind
Sunday July 24, 2011
11:00am-2:00pm
Vista 18 Restaurant
Martini & Wine Bar
Chateau Victoria Hotel
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Band, Bubbles and Bennys
Vista 18 invites you to listen to the jazzy sounds of Lust Life while sipping British Columbia sparkling wines and enjoying a three-course brunch featuring Eggs Benedict and our fabulous city vistas! Executive Chef Garrett Schack has created a menu that will tantalize your taste buds while complimenting the celebratory flavours of local wineries. **THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**
$45
Please Call 250.361.5692
SORRY, this event is SOLD OUT...
Local Vancouver Island farm produce Seafood from our surrounding watersExecutive Chef Garrett Schack, Food and Beverage Manger Kevin NeilsonBritish Columbia bubbly
Sunday July 24, 2011
5:00pm-7:30pm
Vantreight Farm
8277 Central Saanich Rd
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Land and Sea Harvest on the Family Farm
Join the crew from the Marina Restaurant for a family-style al fresco summer dinner out in the field at Vantreight Farms featuring their mid-summer harvest plus the best of the surrounding sea. Tour the working greenhouses and relax in your gumboots on what is sure to be a perfect summer evening. Enjoy the finest indulgence in the middle of a farm field as you look out across the Saanich Peninsula to the sea.
$89
Ryan Vantreight and fresh Vantreight Family Farm produceChef Matt Rissling and the team from the Marina Restaurant The wines of Mission Hill Family Estate
All purchases made for Taste are final sales. You must be 19 years or older to attend any Taste event.
