July 6th, 2019- Tofino Two – The Industrial Way Artisans and The 17th Food and Wine Festival
Summary: <br> It’s Tofino Two – The Industrial Way Artisans and The 17th Food and Wine Festival.<br> <br> THE SHOW<br> Last week’s show was all about spending weekdays in Tofino. The Chefs of Tofino / Ucluelet and Willie Mitchell..The Prince of Tides.<br> This week, it’s about the craft artisans on Industrial Way (Charcuterie, Brewing, Spirits & a very popular bakery.)<br> Then it’s off to the 17th annual Tofino Food and Wine Festival. Most wine festivals take place in hotels, conventions centres and meeting rooms. Not this one.<br> <br> <br> As always it takes place in the Tofino Botanical Gardens.<br> As you stroll to the many tasting stations you come to realize you’ve left the “gardens” behind and now you’re surrounded by a Rain Forest.<br> Surreal and very memorable.<br> I swear the location makes the wines taste better. Just saying!<br> <br> As a stark contrast we start the show on Industrial Way in Tofino.<br> <br> Like all other towns and cities, Tofino has an industrial area where craft businesses share space with construction equipment, fishing supplies, boat and floats.<br> <br> As Tina Windsor from Picnic Charcuterie says of Industrial Way “there’s no point in putting lipstick on a pig. It is what it is but still people seek us out. It’s high class, low brow”<br> Besides Picnic, we’ll spend time discovering the people and the craft behind Tofino Brewing, Tofino Distillery and Summit Bakery.<br> <br> At the Tofino Food and Wine festival we’ll taste and talk with:<br> Kira Rogers The Food and Wine Fest Producer, Culmina, Black Market, Pentage, Tantalus/Stoneboat/Summerhill/Township 7 and Burnt Timber.<br> <br> <br> <br> Then a wonderful surprise,. I bumped into David Gouge co-owner of Sea Star Vineyards. (Pender Island/Saturna Island) <br> and got caught up on one of the really fine winery stories in BC.<br> <br> Today’s guests are:<br> From Industrial Way:<br> Tina Windsor – Picnic Charcuterie <a href="https://www.picniccharcuterie.com/">https://www.picniccharcuterie.com/</a><br> Bryan O’Malley – Tofino Brewing <a href="http://tofinobrewingco.com/">http://tofinobrewingco.com/</a><br> Neil Campbell – Tofino Craft Distillery <a href="https://tofinocraftdistillery.com/">https://tofinocraftdistillery.com/</a><br> Brendan Foell/Cassidy McCaughan – Summit Bread Company <a href="https://www.summitbreadco.com/">https://www.summitbreadco.com/</a><br> From 17th Tofino Food and Wine Festival<br> Kira Rogers – Producer <a href="https://tofinofoodandwinefestival.com/">https://tofinofoodandwinefestival.com/</a><br> Sara Triggs – Culmina Vineyards <a href="https://www.culmina.ca/">https://www.culmina.ca/</a><br> Rob Hammersley – Conviction Ridge Vineyard/Black Market Wine Co. <a href="https://blackmarketwine.ca/">https://blackmarketwine.ca/</a><br> Paul Gardner – Pentage Wines <a href="https://pentage.com/">https://pentage.com/</a><br> David Gouge – Sea Star Vineyards <a href="https://seastarvineyards.ca/">https://seastarvineyards.ca/</a><br> Chris Smith (WayWestWines) – Tantalus, Burnt Timber, Summerhill, Township 7, Stoneboat. <a href="https://twitter.com/waywestwines?lang=en%20%20%0d">https://twitter.com/waywestwines?lang=en </a><br> <br> <br> STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON<br> <br> Jim Cuddy – Cuddy by Tawse Wines<br> A special feature on “field blends”<br> Fire Season in The Okanagan<br> BC Shellfish Festival / Courtenay-Comox<br> Cowichan Valley Wine Festival<br> Assorted Chefs, Willie Mitchell & Brendan Morrison speak out on their/our role in saving fishery<br> Chris Tolley Moon Cursor<br> Fort Berens<br> Andrea Sartori and 121 years of Italian Winemaking<br> Jason Priestley – 90210 and his California wine.<br> <br>
