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The great food truck face-off

Allison Markin - | Story: 263023

Have you ever wondered, while enjoying a bite from your favourite food truck, “What wine would pair with this pulled pork perogy poutine?”

The answer may be revealed at the B.C. Wine and Food Truck Face-Off, taking place Aug.16 at the Okanagan Mission Community Hall.

This culinary-focused, wine-and-food pairing competition evening will feature local wineries paired with seven local food trucks for a festival-style tasting experience, highlighting a variety of different Okanagan wines and food truck small plates.

At the end of the night, guests will vote on their favourite pairing, and a winner will be awarded the title of Best Pairing.

“Approachability, intensity and fun are my objectives when I look at this food and wine pairing,” said sommelier Bram Bolwijn, who created the pairings to be revealed at the event.

“Each dish has its own character, and the key is to highlight that by selecting the right wine. I choose wines that complement a dish to make the wine and food better together than on their own.”

Participating food trucks include:

  • Rollie’s Roadhouse (home of perogy poutine)
  • The Deli Don,
  • Artisto Gelato
  • Street Eats
  • Inferno Woodfire Pizza,
  • Peter Ze German Streetfood
  • The Boneyard BBQ and Grilling.

Just a few of the participating wineries include:

  • The View Winery
  • Dirty Laundry Vineyard
  • House of Rose Winery
  • Indigenous World Winery
  • Sperling Vineyards,
  • Crescent Hill Winery
  • O’Rourke’s Peak Cellars.

Food truck culture is burgeoning in the Okanagan. Why not pair a dish from one with a glass of wine?

For more details, visit https://www.thewinefestivals.com/events/view_event/1901

UPCOMING EVENTS

Aug.8, Penticton: Chill’n For Summer is combo of shopping plus food and wine tastings in Downtown Penticton.

Aug. 8, Kelowna: Take in a Sunset Tasting with the winemaker at Tantalus.
https://tantalus.ca/collections/all-wines/products/summer-sunset-tasting-tantalus-event-ticket?variant=8016806117424

Aug. 10, Okanagan Falls: Blue Mountain Vineyard and Cellars hosts a Summer Social with live music, outdoor games, and bites from Joy Road Catering.

Aug. 10, Silver Star: The Mile High at SilverStar Mountain returns. Outdoor tastings, entertainment and more.

Aug. 11, Kelowna: Caldwell Heritage Farm hosts the 11th annual Okanagan Feast of Fields, a gourmet wandering picnic.

Aug. 16, Naramata: Join the winemakers at Roche for a dinner in their cellar with Chef Chris Van Hooydonk of Backyard Farm.

Aug. 17, Naramata: Chef Victoire Bongo hosts a Rosé Party in Pink at Bench D’Or estate.

Aug. 18, Summerland: Visit Evolve Cellars to create a fabulous rustic sign to complement your home décor while enjoying a glass of wine and the view.

Aug. 24, Okanagan Falls: Noble Ridge hosts the West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation Concert, featuring performer wiL, to raise funds for a permanent facility to send kids to camp.

This article is written by or on behalf of an outsourced columnist and does not necessarily reflect the views of Castanet.

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A creative thinker with more than two decades of experience in communications, Allison is an early adopter of social and digital media, bringing years of work in traditional media to the new frontier of digital engagement marketing through her company, All She Wrote.

She is the winner of the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association's 2011 and 2012 awards for Social Media Initiative, an International LERN award for marketing, and the 2014 Penticton Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award for Hospitality/Tourism.

Allison has amassed a following on multiple social networks of more than 30,000, frequently writes and about social media, food and libations as well as travel and events, and through her networks, she led a successful bid to bring the Wine Bloggers Conference to Penticton in June 2013, one of the largest social media wine events in the world, generating 31 million social media impressions, $1 million in earned media, and an estimated ongoing economic impact of $2 million.

In 2014, she held the first Canadian Wine Tourism Summit to spark conversation about the potential for wine tourism in Canada as a year-round economic driver.

Allison contributes epicurean content to several publications, has been a judge for several wine and food competitions, and has earned her advanced certificate from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust.

In her spare time, she has deep, meaningful conversations with her cats.

She can be reached at [email protected]



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