Your Guide to Pairing Medal-Winning BC VQA Wines with Your Favourite Winter Sports

January 18, 2010 - Nancy Greene Raine

Who better to suggest the best skiing wine than BC’s Ski Queen, Nancy Greene Raine: “This February, Canada will be going for gold in Vancouver. Canadians will be waving the flag on the mountains, on the ice and also in the vineyards and cellars of our rich and diverse country. One of the newest entries into the “Grape Games” is the Young & Wyse Collection. Located in the sun-drenched town of Osoyoos in the South Okanagan, multi-gold medal winemaking winner Stephen Wyse and his family have charged out of the gate. The result, my new favourite Canadian wine, the 2008 Young & Wyse Collection Shiraz. If you want to paint the town red at a medal ceremony dinner, you should consider impressing your international friends with this elegant yet savoury Shiraz. Grown and produced in the South Okanagan and nurtured by one of Canada’s best winemakers, this is definitely a wine worthy of the podium.”