Delicious scents and wines were in abundance at the Taste of Sun Peaks event at the Delta Ballroom last night for the opening of the Sun Peaks Icewine festival. Businesses and vineyards of the Thompson Okanagan region came together to create a mouth watering event, sure to appeal to food and wine enthusiasts. In its 11th year, the Sun Peaks Icewine festival got off to a great start. Adding new flavour to the event this year was Subculture Bistro's temari sushi. Temari sushi are made of rice topped with a thin layer of salmon, or other ingredients, and then shaped into small balls. A type of Kyoto sushi, temari sushi is made of cured or simmered ingredients.
Cheese from British Columbia was also a big hit of the evening, with three new cheeses featured this year. Farmhouse, a firm cheese with a hint of fruit and sweet milk, was delicious when paired with white wine. Two organic cheeses from Gort's Gouda Cheese Farm located in Salmon Arm were simply delectable. One was the Beaufort, a type of cheese made of cow's milk that goes well with white wine, and an aged Gouda, a famous dessert cheese and aged for at least two years.
It wasn't only the food at the event that tempted the taste buds. Wine connoisseurs were able to sample wines from five different wineries. Sumac Ridge, Stoneboat Vineyards, Twisted Tree, Tinhorn Creek Vineyard and Antelope Ridge had a great selection of wines to suit everyone's tastes with several red varieties as well as the popular icewine .
To go along with all this, an icewine event would not be complete without a little sweetener. Chocolate lovers savoured their wine with fresh fruit dipped into the chocolate fountain from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
The events continued today with All You Need Is Cheese… for Dessert , the Magic of Dessert and Wine, and one of the pinnacles of the festival, the Winemasters' Dinner commencing at 6:30 p.m.
Several events will be held tomorrow and Friday, ending with the Sun Peaks Progressive Tasting.
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