All Entries Tagged With: "Culinary"
Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival 2010
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate the bounty of the Cowichan Region. The 6th Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival starts off with a culinary bang featuring a sumptuous buffet, wines and music at Cherry Point Vineyard Friday evening, September 17th. Throughout the weekend, you can sample wines at many of the Cowichan’s fabulous wineries, have a crisp cider [...]
Rocky Creek Winery
On May 3, Cherie Oke of Cowichan Valley Photos was privileged, on behalf of the Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival, to be the guest of Rocky Creek Winery at their Press Conference. What a treat that was! First, the tastings and appropriate canapés from Amuse Bistro to accompany them. With the crisp, fruity dry Ortega [...]
Venturi-Schulze Vineyards
Venturi-Schulze Vineyards, located in rural Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, is truly a family run business. Giordano and Marilyn Venturi, both former teachers, and their daughter, Michelle Willcock Schulze, have owned the vineyard since 1988. Giordano and Marilyn have always shared a love of fine wine and ultimately instilled that into [...]
Zanatta Winery and Vineyards
Zanatta Winery and Vineyards, located in Glenora, is four minutes southwest of Duncan in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Glenora comes from Scottish origin meaning “golden valley”, which perfectly describes the Cowichan Valley. The winery, which opened in 1990, is part of a 120 acre farm with thirty acres being dedicated to the vineyard [...]
Merridale Estate Cidery
Merridale Estate Cidery is located on the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, about 40 minutes north of Victoria, and one hour and 20 minutes south of Nanaimo. Merridale has truly been an ongoing project for the owners, Janet Docherty and Rick Pipes. Since their purchase of the property in March, 2000, they have continued to [...]
Cherry Point Vineyard
Cherry Point Vineyard sits on thirty-four acres of what used to be a mink ranch approximately one hour outside of Victoria on Vancouver Island. In 1994 the vineyard became one of the first licensed wineries on the island. Cherry Point also has a bistro on site open May to September with many delightful menu selections. [...]
Keating Farm Estate – Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival
Keating Farm Estate was purchased in 2005 by The Land Conservancy, in part to protect many of the heritage building on the site but also to protect some wetlands and the general agricultural potential. Keating Farm Estate is located in the Koksilah area of the Cowichan Valley making the site readily accessible to locals and [...]
Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival Official Launch
The Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival started off with a bang tonight at the Satellite Bar & Grille at the Arbutus Ridge Country Club. The food was excellent as one would expect, take a look at what was available to sample: Sage and Prosciutto Wrapped Wild Sockeye Salmon, on Armenian Flatbread Seafood Ragout in a [...]
Dermod & Dudley’s Irish Pub & Grill in Lake Cowichan, British Columbia
It was pouring rain last Saturday noon when the Cowichan Valley Photos duo pulled into the parking lot of Dermod & Dudley’s Irish Pub & Grill in Lake Cowichan. A wonderful sight, that pub, for two bedraggled and hungry sight-seers. Our pretty, friendly waitress seated us by the window from where — even on such [...]
Honeymoon Bay Outdoor Market – Revisited
We finally had an opportunity to visit the Honeymoon Bay Outdoor Market in conjunction with the Honeymoon Bay Blackberry Festival. While the weather wasn’t perfect, a trip to Cowichan Lake is always an adventure and we discovered the funkiest outdoor market in the Cowichan Valley. The stalls are made from “found” objects and recycled wood [...]
