Vancouver Sun

Oysters take centre stage in Osoyoos

- ANTHONY GISMONDI

The seventh annual Osoyoos Oyster Festival runs to Sunday featuring a variety of oysters supplied by Kelowna’s Codfathers Seafood Market and Vancouver Island’s Out Landish Shellfish Guild and Effingham Oysters. It’s a five-day affair with three big parties. A ticket bundle for all three signature events is available for $198 per person. Spirit Ridge, Walnut Beach Resort and Watermark Beach Resort are offering special hotel rates with shuttle service for key events. For more informatio­n about accommodat­ion or the events, visit destinatio­nosoyoos.com/ ooysterfes­t.

There will be wine, yoga, sunsets and bites every Tuesday night this summer at CedarCreek Estate Winery. From July 3 to Sept. 11 you can experience a spirited yoga class in the outdoor pavilion overlookin­g East Kelowna wine country and Lake Okanagan followed by a glass of CedarCreek wine paired with nutritious salads and charcuteri­e while the sun sets in the west. Tickets are $42 and you can book now.

B.C. WINE OF THE WEEK

Spierhead Pinot Noir GFV Saddle Block 2016, East Kelowna, Okanagan Valley

$30 | 90/100

UPC: 6269902451­55

Gentleman Farmer Vineyard, Spearhead’s East Kelowna home vineyard, is shaped like a saddle, hence the Saddle Block label moniker. In 2016, all the original plantings of Dijon clones 115, 777 and 828 made it into the wine blended 70/15/15. This has much wider appeal in 2016 with soft, slippery, supple fruit redolent in strawberry, tea and cherry notes and with cinnamon and star anise in the back end. Tannins remain gentle. Think salmon sushi, pork belly or cedar plank grilled salmon.

WINE FOR THE CELLAR

Taylor Fladgate Very Old Single Harvest Port 1967, Douro Valley, Portugal

$259.99 | 93/100

UPC: 5013626114­988

Retasted this at Taylor in late 2017, and it’s delicious. Taylor has extensive reserves of very old cask aged Tawny Ports, and beginning with the 1964, have released a series of 50-year-old Tawnies as single vintage Colheita, marking the wine’s 50th anniversar­y in barrel. Time mellows all wines, and in this case, intensifie­s its internal structure. Still potent up front, with salted marzipan, orange, whisky and wood and some “spirit” before the caramelize­d orange, singed brown sugar, butterscot­ch, treacle, raisins, honeycomb and pecans finish with great length and warmth. An experience for anyone or any event connected to 1967.

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