Stomp. Drink. Eat.
Our feet feel fabulous. My wife, Kerry, and I have just finished a squishy round of stomping riesling grapes prior to sitting down to the final long-table dinner of the season at West Kelowna’s Mission Hill Winery.
While the activity was designed as pure fun and no wine would be made from the juice extracted by our footsies, there are health benefits to putting bare feet to berries.
Grapes are full of polyphenols, an incredible antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound that rejuvenates.
Thus, the skin on our feet is soft and supple post-stomp.
Plus, we were able to sip the welcome Viognier drink while frolicking in the barrel.
While seated with 58 others at the elaborately decorated long table set in the outdoor plaza of the winery, we’d go on to enjoy tomato salad paired with Sauvignon Blanc, lamb matched to Cabernet Sauvignon and a berry dessert with icewine.
Mission Hill’s three long-table dinners this season sold out quickly at $125 a ticket.
Plans are already being made for next summer’s series to stretch the tables to seat 100 at each of five such feasts.
In the meantime, the winery is getting ready for its next big culinary production – the $159-a-head, six-course harvest dinner in the wine experience hall with winemaker Darryl Brooker.
Check out MissionHillWinery.com.