Summary: <a class="a2a_button_facebook a2a_counter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftastingroomradio.com%2Fdecember-3rd-2016%2F&linkname=December%203rd%2C%202016%20%E2%80%93%20Jason%20Parkes%20punks%20the%20Hatch%21" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftastingroomradio.com%2Fdecember-3rd-2016%2F&linkname=December%203rd%2C%202016%20%E2%80%93%20Jason%20Parkes%20punks%20the%20Hatch%21" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Ftastingroomradio.com%2Fdecember-3rd-2016%2F&title=December%203rd%2C%202016%20%E2%80%93%20Jason%20Parkes%20punks%20the%20Hatch%21"></a><br> Can a rocker make wine? You bet. Especially if your name is Jason Parkes! The Hatch was named 9th best winery in Canada and 5th in BC.<br> And IS this the weekend to Lick Your Plate?<br> <br> THE SHOW <br> Some wine fans follow labels, some follow grapes, some follow regions and some follow Winemakers.<br> Can I please suggest one winemaker you may want to follow? Jason Parkes!<br> First of all he’s born in Peachland, so the man knows his fruit.<br> <br> <br> <br> He’s fronted two punk bands. OK, that has nothing to do with wine-making but there’s a do-it-yourself attitude in the punk/post-punk community and that works in a vineyard/cellar…<br> <br> He started making wine in the Okanagan to pay the bills and get his band’s van back on the road.<br> <br> Now, after multiple harvests, he’s gathered around him a great team of growers, cellar hands and winemakers.<br> It shows in the wines he creates.<br> The Hatch<br> <br> * Black Swift<br> * Contempt by Pamela Anderson<br> * Screaming Fenzy<br> * Gobsmacked<br> * Talking Stories<br> <br> and countless more.<br> 2016 WINE ALIGN AWARDS OF CANADA, THEY WERE NAMED THE 9TH BEST WINERY IN ALL OF CANADA. 5TH BEST IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.<br> http://www.winealign.com/awards/2016/07/27/2016-nwac-top-25-wineries-in-canada/<br> Here’s what they say about themselves..<br> The Hatch is the absolute culmination of the wants and dreams of a select, rare and bizarre cadre of people who are unconcerned about the convention and now have a chance to show the world exactly what real wine, real hospitality and real people are all about. ‘the hatch’ is the direct confluence of all our favourite arts.<br> <br> The liquid arts, the visual arts and the living arts; finally together and together forever.<br> That answers the ‘what’, but also asked is the ‘why’. Why ‘the hatch’? Because the time is long overdue for something like this to enter your life, and more-so; to make your life that much better. Now it’s time to shut-up and go drink some wine.<br> <br> Jason Parkes brings lots of stories to the edition of Tasting Room Radio. Great fun. Fabulous wines.<br> Drink the future!!<br> <br> <a href="https://thehatchwines.com">https://thehatchwines.com</a><br> <br> <br> Lick Your Plate – Authors Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat<br> Yes, they are sisters and best friends, they each have 3 kids and they live within 5 blocks of each other.<br> <br> These sisters create a force in any kitchen. Julie writes… Lisa Cooks.<br> Julie and Lisa have released their third cookbook Lick Your Plate. A follow up to Bite Me and Bite me Too!<br> The girls write about food and family (family first).<br> They talk with me about Sloppy Joe’s, Baja Fish Tacos, Slutty brownies and the fact that it takes Twinkies 45 seconds to explode in a microwave!<br> We do take time to go back and remember their Grandmother.
