Niagara Chapter's May Tasting: Terroir Series - Global Riesling Tasting At Strewn Winery in the Wine Country Cooking School, 1339 Lakeshore Rd., Niagara-on-the-Lake
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Strewn Winery is a winery with many features! Opened in 1997, it not only houses the winery boutique, tasting room and production area, but it is also the location of the only winery cooking school in Canada, "The Wine Country Cooking School", and the contemporary Provencal restaurant "Terroir La Cachette". An impressive facility for a small "boutique" winery.
This is the first of our "Terroir Series"; a set of tastings designed to explore the concept of Terroir. This first one will focus on Global Terroir. Joe Will, winemaker at Strewn Winery, will guide us through samples of Rieslings from Ontario, France, Germany, and Australia as we try to detect the global differences. Joe will discuss the factors that influence terroir and explain how we might detect it.
Joe Will is a winemaker/entrepreneur who loves talking about wine! Raised on Canada's West Coast, and wine-educated in Australia, Joe started making wine for other wineries here in Canada. In 1994, he started producing wine under the Strewn label and in 1997 he and his wife Jane Langdon (owner of the Wine Country Cooking School) bought and restored the historic building that Strewn is now located in (the old Niagara Shores Canning Company). Today, with business partner Newman Smith, Joe produces premium VQA wines from grapes grown in the Niagara Peninsula.
As always, there will be hor's oeuvres and mingling afterward. We hope to see you there!
For information call the Niagara Wine Line at 905-685-7623. Seats will not be sold at the door. Members $25, Non-Members $30. Members may bring one guest at member price. Your cheque must be received by Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Please do not mail cash. Cancellations will be accepted up to Thursday, May 13, 2004.Directions: Strewn Winery (1330 Lakeshore Rd, Niagara-on-the-Lake). Take the QEW to Exit 38 (use the "Niagara on the Lake" ramp). Follow the signs to Hwy 55 and Niagara on the Lake. Once you're on Hwy 55., you'll come to a stop light at Four-mile Creek Rd. (in the town of Virgil). Turn left and follow past 2 stop signs. The road will dead-end at the third stop sign on Lakeshore. Strewn will be on the left at the corner of Four-mile Creek Rd. and Lakeshore. For a map or local directions, see www.strewnwinery.com.
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Please reserve _____ space(s) for the Strewn - Global Terroir - Riesling Tasting, Monday, May 17, 2004. Members $25; Non-members $30. Enclosed is my cheque for $_____________ (members may bring 1 guest at member price.) Please make cheques payable to "The Ontario Wine Society - Niagara Chapter". Please include a telephone number or email address that you would like us to contact to confirm that your cheque was received. Please print: NAME: _________________________________________ GUEST(S): _________________________________________ ADDRESS: __________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY: _______________________________________ POSTAL CODE: ________________________________________ TELEPHONE: (DAY)________________________________ (evening) ________________________________________ I understand and accept my personal safety responsibilities when attending an Ontario Wine Society event. SIGNED: __________________________________________ DATED: _________________________________________ |
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Please forward your registration and payment to: The Ontario Wine Society - Niagara Chapter c/o S. Couch, 4850 Cherrywood Dr., Beamsville, ON., L0R 1B9 |
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