Heinzelwein-Dreier im Oktober 2019: Kanada und die Schönheit im Kleinen und im Großen

Kanada – wilde Weite, greifbare Natur. Der ständige Kampf, als Mensch darin sein Auskommen zu finden, in vielerlei Hinsicht noch ganz unmittelbar zu spüren. Und soviel Schönheit. Ich war zehn Tage in (auf?) Neufundland, ganz oben im Nordosten des Kontinents, wo Nordamerika beinahe noch an Europa hängt – und habe zehn Tage lang in kanadischem Wein geschwelgt. Denn ja, dort wächst großartiger Stoff. Ok, nicht in Neufundland, aber in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, British Columbia… Gibt es hier leider nur gaaaanz selten. Aber hier sind zwei, die hervorragend in den Herbst passen, für besondere Momente (und dafür um so mehr zu lesen). » Weiterlesen…

Terroir Symposium 2017 in Toronto: Celebrating Canadian Gastronomy – and Riesling!

It’s been ten years since Torontonian Arlene Stein started the Terroir Symposium in her native city. About one year ago, Arlene moved to Berlin, and we met, and she invited me to speak at this year’s event (of which she also created a more intimate satellite version in Berlin in mid-May, but that’s a different story). Me being travel-insatiable me took this as a wonderful excuse to be on the road for a whole month, going to New York, Cambridge, upper Vermont, Québec, Nova Scotia, and, extensively, Ontario. For wine, for cheese, for friends, for…life as such!
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Cheese of the month August 2016: Grey Baby from Upper Bench Creamery/Okanagan, BC Canada

July was a wonderfully full month in Heinzelcheese land, and it’s spilling into August. That’s why I’d like to present you one of the great finds from my travels as cheese of the month for this August: Shana Miller’s Grey Baby from Naramata in the beautiful Okanagan Valley in Canada. » Weiterlesen…

Three bottles: Riesling from Canada

Serendipity was smiling on me and decided it was time for me to widen my horizon on the subject of Canadian wine. It sent Torontonian Arlene Stein, awesome impresario of the Toronto Terroir event who recently moved to Berlin, my way with some Ontario cheese – and a box of wine! I had heard about the winemaker Charles Baker, but never tasted his wines. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month August 2013: Piccolo from Carmelis/Okanagan Valley, Canada

We writers are hunters and gatherers, and as I recently returned from five weeks in England, the US and Canada, my bags were full to the brim with goodies, impressions and wonderful memories. It should come as no surprise then that the cheese of the month stems from far away (well, at least seen from Berlin), that is from British Columbia, in western Canada. Contrary to common belief, polar bears, Inuit and snow are NOT the only features there. The good people of the Okanagan grow wine (and it can be very good – YES!) and some keep goats.  » Weiterlesen…