Springs has sprung, the Canucks are in the playoffs and for the 10th year our friend and erstwhile columnist Kurtis Kolt has brought his highly curated wine fair,
If you’re unfamiliar, imagine if you were friends with a bunch of sommeliers and wine industry types and for someone’s birthday everyone decided to bring a cool bottle of wine to share with the group: this festival is really a collection of those bottles and the people that make them. It’s a group of wineries and winemakers that Kurtis, his partners: the Okanagan, Oregon, Argentina, Italy, France etc.
As a preview we’ve asked three of the people involved in the festival—a somm, a restaurateur and a winemaker—to tell us about a bottle that will be poured that they’re super jacked about.This year at Top Drop our Wine Director, James, and myself are most excited to try the new Margo fromin Georgia. James is crazy for Qvevri wines and he thinks this is the perfect summer red because it is a direct pressing of Saperavi grapes, which have red flesh and juice.
They source their grapes from different from organic and biodynamic vineyards and I find their honest terroir-driven wines reflect Willamette Valley well, and with a Burgundian or even Loire Valley lens. And they’re always an easy reach for food pairing. In particular I’m excited to revisit their Melon Willamette Valley. This wine is reminiscent of the Loire Valley’s Muscadet Sevre et Maine.
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