Evolve Effervescence

Allison Markin - Jul 17, 2022 / 4:00 am | Story: 375790

Photo: Contributed

Wine: Evolve Effervescence (sparkling), NV

Winery: Evolve/Time Family of Wines, Penticton

Why drink it? A double gold winner at the All-Canadian Wine Championships for best Charmat (the bubbles are captured in steel tanks), this sparkler is a blend of 70 percent Chardonnay and 30 percent Pinot Blanc. The colour of pale straw with present bubbles in the glass, with aromas of citrus, apples, and a touch of spring meadow. The palate expands to lemon, green melons, and white peaches with a hint of tropicality from the Chard and a bit of flint. Refreshing and effortless, this is a good bottle to keep chilled for surprise summer guests who thought they’d pop in.

Pair with: The winery suggests fried chicken, so grab a bucket, some buttery biscuits, and a couple of your favourite sides and hit the patio or the great outdoors, as long as you can keep this wine well-chilled. Don’t forget a bottle opener.

Price: $23

Music pairing: I Ain’t Worried, OneRepublic

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About the Author

As a kid, Shelley Boettcher often found herself in the back seat of a pick-up, exploring the back roads of the Okanagan Valley with her parents. They’d occasionally leave her and her brother in the car while they stopped at mysterious addresses to buy wine. They would emerge, clearly happy, as they stuck a box or a few bottles in the vehicle. Then they would continue on their journey.

But it wasn’t until a trip to Spain in 2000 that Shelley herself fell in love with wine. She came home from the holiday and promptly told her editor she wanted to become a wine writer.

And she did.

An award-winning food and wine writer and editor, Shelley holds her master’s degree in journalism and her advanced WSET certification, as well as her level 2 International Sommelier Guild certification. A wine columnist for the Calgary Herald, she spent a decade as CBC Radio’s national syndicated wine columnist and she has written three books about wine, including two that were Canadian bestsellers. Her byline has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Postmedia newspapers across Canada.

Shelley has travelled throughout many of the world’s wine regions and countries, including Niagara, Oregon, Washington, California, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Germany, Argentina and the Republic of Georgia. A few years ago, she even tracked down and visited a winery in Denmark.

Shelley has also served as a professional wine judge regionally and internationally, including the Okanagan Wine Festivals, Vinitaly and the Chianti Classico Consortium. For more than a decade, she has been a restaurant wine list judge for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, too. She still teases her parents for sparking her love for wine, especially BC wine.

And her favourite? Whatever she's drinking at the moment.

You can follow Shelley on Instagram @shelleyboettcher or Twitter at @shelley_wine.

If you have a BC wine you’d like to suggest, email Shelley at [email protected] with the name of the wine and a short note about why you enjoyed it.