{"id":20734,"date":"2018-05-31T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=20734"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:39:25","slug":"in-vancouver-dinner-at-forage-with-some-nice-bc-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/canada\/in-vancouver-dinner-at-forage-with-some-nice-bc-wine","title":{"rendered":"In Vancouver: dinner at Forage with some nice BC wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BCwine-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BCwine-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BCwine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BCwine-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BCwine.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arrived last night in Vancouver, and it was straight off to dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foragevancouver.com\/#home\">Forage<\/a> with the small UK press group I&#8217;m travelling with, and Chris Coletta of Haywire. Forage is a really impressive place with lovely small plates &#8211; everything was spot on. Favourite dishes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>Keremeos asparagus, St. George\u2019s mushrooms, asparagus pur\u00e9e, mushroom velout\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>beetroot salad, compressed radishes, smoked yogurt, bull kelp granola<\/li>\n<li>brown butter &amp; spruce tip gnocchi, fromage frais, nodding onion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Its innovative nature is probable best summed up by one of the desserts we had, which was entirely constructed from vegetables (pictured below). The wine list here is exclusively from BC (British Columbia, the Canadian province we are in, which has the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys as its main wine regions), and we had some nice bottles:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20736\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/foragevancouver-500x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/foragevancouver-500x329.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/foragevancouver-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/foragevancouver-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/foragevancouver.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vegetable dessert!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Stag\u2019s Hollow Albari\u00f1o 2016 Okanagan, Canada<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty sure that this is the only Albari\u00f1o in the Okanagan. Full flavoured but very fresh with linear citrus and pear fruit. Nice lemony fruit with some tangerine hints. This is a really successful take on Albari\u00f1o. 90\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Little Farm Pied de Cuv\u00e9e Chardonnay 2015 Similkameen Valley, Canada<\/strong><br \/>\nI really like this, but for the record I must note that it was a little too extreme for the rest of the group. I ended up drinking what they&#8217;d left. Apply, nutty, lemony and textural. Minerally and intense with lovely precision. An oxidative style but with lovely acidity and freshness. 92\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Mountain Pinot Noir 2015 Okanagan, Canada<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a very drinkable Pinot, showing elegance and some non-fruit complexity. Juicy and bright with red cherries, plums, fine herbs. Detailed and spicy with some undergrowth characters. Elegant and characterful and tasting beautiful now. 91\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meyer Family Vineyards Pinot Noir Old Block 2016 Okanagan, Canada<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is rich and ripe with dense sweet black cherry and blackberry fruit. Smooth, lush and fine-grained with nice density in the mouth. A really bold intense Pinot that is impressively broad and concentrated. 90\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/wineblog\/canada\/the-wines-of-british-columbia-canada-diversity-and-purity\">The wines of British Columbia, diversity and purity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived last night in Vancouver, and it was straight off to dinner at Forage with the small UK press group I&#8217;m travelling with, and Chris Coletta of Haywire. 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