Come and join us for a unique experience and learn about the Canadian expression of Japan's national drink. Our special guest Masa Shiroki, founder of Artisan SakeMaker from Granville Island, will be sharing a few of his premium sake made sustainably, locally, and naturally. As well as some outstanding BC wines, we will enjoy a selection of delicious cheese from Benton Brothers, charcuterie from Oyama Sausage (including a Kazu Coppa marinated with Sake Kasu) as well as some tasty Sushi rolls. For those interested in the sake making process, Masa will be happy  to treat us to a tour of his sake making facility. 

Our Cellarmaster has pulled a few gems out of storage and added some of the newest, award-winning BC wines to complement the sake, including the following:

Averill Creek NV Charm de L'ile - a top Vancouver Island sparkling wine
Mayhem 2021 Small Lot Sauvignon Blanc - Gold Medal, National Wine Awards 2022
Terravista 2021 Fandango (Albarino/Verdejo) - Gold Medal, National Wine Awards 2022
Kitsch 2019 Esther's Block Riesling - Platinum Medal, National Wine Awards, 2022
CedarCreek 2021 Pinot Noir Rose - Gold Medal, National Wine Awards 2022
Blue Mountain 2007 Reserve Pinot Noir - 15 years old!
Howling Bluff 2013 Century Block Pinot Noir - BC Lt. Gov. Award 2017

Date:  Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Time:  7:00-9:00PM
Place:  Off the Track Bistro, 1363 Railspur Alley, Granville Island, Vancouver
Price:  $65/$80 per member/guest by e-transfer to info@bcwas.org or PayPal (below)

Please ensure that your membership is up-to-date before signing up for this event.

​2022 BCWAS membership: Join us now, and your membership is good until March of 2023. Only $40 for more than a year of our fun and fabulous events! Click here to become a member of the best wine club in town. Questions? Contact us at membership@bcwas.org

Please note that there are no paper tickets for our events. Once your purchase is completed you will be added to our attendees list. Please check in when you arrive.

Please note that we are unable to provide refunds. If you purchase a ticket but cannot attend the event, please let us know with as much advance notice as possible and we’ll try to re-sell your ticket, but we cannot guarantee this.
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Please make sure you have a safe way home: take transit, call a cab, or ask a friend to be a designated driver. We will have free transit tickets on hand for those who take transit home.

We are honoured to welcome you with another one of our most sought-after events, a BCWAS vertical tasting! Our featured winery for this event is Clos du Soleil Winery, a small artisan winery and vineyard located on the Keremeos Upper Bench. Their unique characteristic is described as "Old World Elegance, New World Edge." The winery has been producing exceptional wines since 2006.

We'll be tasting the flagship red blend from Clos du Soleil - "Signature" - a blend of Bordeaux varieties, produced by hand, and aged for 16 months in French oak barrels. This tasting of Signature from 2009 to 2015 will showcase its balance and structure, as it has been know for its ability to age for many years.

As a feature to this fabulous evening, we are pleased to host Michael Clark, Managing Director & Winemaker at Clos du Soleil. Michael's philosophy is to treat the grapes gently and with respect in order to produce complex, age-worthy wines that showcase the very best expression of the Similkameen Valley terroir. Michael was originally trained in Theoretical Physics. He also spent 14 years as a successful investment manager in Canada, the USA, and Europe. It was during his years living in Europe that Michael decided to turn his life-long obsession with wine into his day job.

In addition to our 2009-2015 vertical, Michael will be bringing the 2020 "Capella" Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon blend and a new 2020 Chardonnay for us to enjoy. He has also promised to bring an exciting, not yet released, bonus wine: we'll leave this for you to be pleasantly surprised at this iconic event.

Date:  Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time:  7:30–9:30 pm
Place:  Fraserview Banquet Hall, 8240 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Price:  $80 members only (at present) via e-transfer to info@bcwas.org (preferred) or via Paypal (below). Cheques can be mailed to: BC Wine Appreciation Society, PO Box 48912 Bentall Station, Vancouver, BC, V7X 1A8

Please ensure that your membership is up-to-date before signing up for this event.

2022 BCWAS membership: Join us now, and your membership is good until March of 2023. Only $40 for more than a year of our fun and fabulous events! Click here to become a member of the best wine club in town. Questions? Contact us at membership@bcwas.org

Please note that there are no paper tickets for our events. Once your purchase is completed you will be added to our attendees list. Please check in when you arrive.

Please note that we are unable to provide refunds. If you purchase a ticket but cannot attend the event, please let us know with as much advance notice as possible and we’ll try to re-sell your ticket, but we cannot guarantee this.
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Please make sure you have a safe way home: take transit, call a cab, or ask a friend to be a designated driver. We will have free transit tickets on hand for those who take transit home.

We are honoured to welcome you back with one of our most sought-after events, a ten-year vertical tasting! Our featured winery for this event is Fairview Cellars, a boutique winery located on the Reed Creek alluvial fan at the north end of the benches of the Golden Mile. Situated off the second tee of the Fairview Mountain Golf Course on the southwest corner of Oliver, Fairview Cellars is well known for some of the Okanagan's best bold red wines.

The wine collected by our expert Cellarmasters over the years for this ten-year vertical is none other than The Bear's Meritage, otherwise known as THE BEAR. In front of you, at this vertical tasting, expect to savour ten of these epic, age-worthy red blends from 2005 to 2014.

Since many BCWAS members are very well acquainted with Fairview Cellars' Proprietor Bill Eggert, known by some as the "Iconoclast Winemaker" among top Okanagan wine producers, we are certainly in for an evening of colourful commentary from Bill. Sign up soon to reserve your seat!

Date:  Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Time:  7:30–9:30 pm
Place:  Fraserview Banquet Hall, 8240 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Price:  $80 members only (at present) via e-transfer to info@bcwas.org (preferred) or via Paypal (below). Cheques can be mailed to: BC Wine Appreciation Society, PO Box 48912 Bentall Station, Vancouver, BC, V7X 1A8

Please ensure that your membership is up-to-date before signing up for this event.

2022 BCWAS membership: Join us now, and your membership is good until March of 2023. Only $40 for more than a year of our fun and fabulous events! Click here to become a member of the best wine club in town. Questions? Contact us at membership@bcwas.org

Please note that there are no paper tickets for our events. Once your purchase is completed you will be added to our attendees list. Please check in when you arrive.

Please note that we are unable to provide refunds. If you purchase a ticket but cannot attend the event, please let us know with as much advance notice as possible and we’ll try to re-sell your ticket, but we cannot guarantee this.
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Please make sure you have a safe way home: take transit, call a cab, or ask a friend to be a designated driver. We will have free transit tickets on hand for those who take transit home.

You are not seeing things, the BCWAS is back in action after 18 long months of COVID-imposed lockdown and social distancing. We are optimistic that Stage 4 of the provincial re-opening will take place as scheduled in September, and are very happy to welcome all our healthy and happy members to a celebratory vertical tasting. The Society encourages all members who are able to do so to get vaccinated before the event in the interests of safety - you've got just enough time for two doses!

This latest tasting in our ongoing series of (nearly) annual verticals will feature the flagship wine of Poplar Grove, "The Legacy". This Bordeaux-inspired red blend has been produced since at least 2004: we know this because that is when our ten year vertical begins! These meticulously aged bottles represent the finest grapes farmed by Poplar Grove from 2004 to 2013, and often bottled-aged at the winery for two years before release. Needless to say the BCWAS has taken up the mantle from Poplar Grove and continued that bottle aging for a spectacularly long time.

Not only does The Legacy regularly receive provincial and national acclaim, but in recent years there has been international recognition of Poplar Grove's winemaking: the 2016 vintage just received a Gold Medal (96 points) from the Decanter World Wine Awards. The wine has certainly grown and changed over time, as the vineyards have matured and expanded in size and scope, with more rare varieties such as Malbec and Petit Verdot added in later years to the more traditional Cabernet-Merlot blend. Don't worry, we have all the details available for each vintage, to ensure you know exactly what you're tasting from each glass!

Welcome back fellow oenophiles, we look forward to seeing you soon.

Date:  Thursday, September 16, 2021
Time:  7:00–9:00 pm
Place:  Fraserview Banquet Hall, 8240 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Price:  SOLD OUT

Please ensure that your membership is up-to-date before signing up for this event.