If you love food and wine as much as I do then I'm sure you already have all your tickets for the extravaganza up at Whistler this weekend...this long, wine-soaked, food-filled weekend.
For us, Cornucopia starts tomorrow, Thursday.
Certainly, we're blessed because we live just a two- or three-hour drive (depending on how many times I make Rick stop along the way) up to one of the most beautiful winter wonderlands in the world. Add to all that natural beauty the myriad foods and wines from world-class chefs and vintners, and you've got a weekend you simply can't miss.
Joe from Road 13 shares wine and information at last year's House Party
We'll take off mid-morning tomorrow and get up to the Whistler Conference Centre to pick up our tickets at will-call and accreditation at the media centre. Then we'll head over to our hotel and check in, rest, and probably have a cocktail (or two).
On Thursday night we'll be at House Party—Best of BC.
Friday will find us at the Trade Tasting and then we'll be taking an Unquenchable Wine Journey with wine writer and media personality Natalie MacLean. (I haven't read her new book yet, have you?) To cap off Friday night, we'll visit the CRUSH Gala Grand Tasting.
On Saturday, we're heading to the Stars of Sonoma County trade seminar, followed by Seeing Caymus Wines Through Riedel Glasses, All You Need is Cheese & Wine with the Dairy Farmers of Canada and two popular B.C. wineries: Blasted Church and Summerhill Pyramid.
Saturday night finishes with a Painted Rock winemaker's dinner at the Four Seasons Whistler's Sidecut. Painted Rock has been named the number one winery in British Columbia and number three winery in Canada by Wine Access Magazine, while Globe and Mail columnist, Beppi Crosariol calls Painted Rock "a new super-premium-wine star in British Columbia.”
On Sunday, we're taking in two mini-tastings: Make Mine Chardonnay and Get Me a Cab.
The hospitality, tourism, and wine industries aren't the only ones to benefit from Cornucopia. Every year, this event chooses a charity to which it donates part proceeds. This year, that charity is WAG, Whistler Animal Shelter.
Will you be at Cornucopia? I'd love to know your thoughts...
Cheers to you!
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