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Bubbles and Sweets: A BCWineChat Tweet Up
Join us in person at the Four Seasons Vancouver–Yew Restaurant with Chef Ned Bell for a great live pairing of 3 BC sparklers with 3 BC sweet wines and some great savory appetizers. It’s our second year with a live tweet up!
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Join host Paul Rickett from Bowen Island for this week’s BCWineChat–all about wines and valentines. Do you have a special choice to share with that someone special or are you looking for a recommendation? What foods do you make on Valentine’s day and what wines do you pair with them?
Even if you don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day you can still open up a BCWine and enjoy it! Join us.
Wine in BC Grocery Stores
On November 28, 2013 BC’s Parliamentary Secretary, John Yap and the Ministry of Justice announced that grocery store liquor sales will be recommended for BC. This comes as one of seventy changes to be proposed under the recent Liquor Policy Review the BC government underwent in Fall of this year. The remaining changes will not be announced until 2014.
Consumers spoke loud and clear during the review, but how this looks once enacted is still speculation. If you read the press release (thanks to www.winelaw.ca website) you find that the government is proposing maintaining the same cap on licenses in the province. How will this be possible? What impact will this change have on LRS stores, private wine stores, BC restaurants and BC wineries?
Bring your insight, your questions and your comments to tonight’s #BCWineChat from 8-9pm on Wednesday, December 4, 2013.
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Favourite BCWine and Music Matches
Sit back put on your favourite music, open up your favourite BCWine and tweet. That’s pretty well it. You’ve heard of food and wine pairing but this week it’s wine and music pairing and we’re looking forward to hearing your thought!
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The Marriage of BC Food and Wine
We live in such a spectacular corner of the world and food produced in and around BC finds perfect matches in our home-grown wines. BCWineChat will explore the marriage of BC food and wine this week!
Bring your suggestions and your wine & food pairing questions!
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If I Could Tell the #WBC13 Wine Bloggers One Great Thing About Our BC Wine Industry it Would Be… (feed lost)
The Wine Blogger’s are here! The Wine Blogger’s are here! A wonderful group of enthusiastic wine, food and travel bloggers are descending on Penticton this week and here’s your chance to encapsulate in one location your best thing (or things) about the BC Wine industry. Sure, it’s always easier to gripe and moan about how we can make our industry better, but here’s your time to tell people who don’t know a lot about our area why we love what we do and where we do it.
Consumers, retailers, restaurants, and wineries! Why you love this place, its people and these wines? We’ll package it up pretty for the Wine Bloggers for reading later so think about it and then tweet it.
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What Can We Do To Strengthen Our BC Wine Industry?
We are a great industry but there are many things that can be done to strengthen our industry. What can each winery, store, restaurant, government agency and consumer do to make this great BC wine industry even better than it is now?
It is election time and you can be assured that some of the #BCPoli will be tuning in to our chat on Wednesday at 8pm. Be constructive or critical–anything goes this week…but remember the goal is to find ways to make this industry even stronger.
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One of the best varieties in BC is Riesling–they are fresh, crisp and juicy. They are also some of the most food friendly wines that BC makes.
Get yourself a long, tall bottle of Riesling from BC (dry, off dry or sweet) and join the chat. You will, no doubt, learn a great deal–and have fun too.
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We’re going to tweet about all things Syrah, and more specifically BC Syrah. Come with questions about the variety (also called Shiraz), its growing conditions, areas of BC that are well suited for it, wine styles and whether you think it is a BC star varietal or not.
If you don’t come with questions, come with answers because there are a lot of people out there that would love to find out more about this varietal. Pull up your favourite bottle (or glass) of Syrah from BC and join in on the chat!
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