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Virtual Wine Tasting Wednesday

Virtual Wine Tasting Wednesday

Connecting through wine and food

One of the things that we most miss about the shortened theatre season was Wine Tasting Wednesday – gathering with a lively group of theatre-goers and the great folks at Kenaston Wine Market on the second Wednesday of every play run, sampling wines and food carefully selected by Marlies, Pam and their staff.

But we worked with Marlies at Kenaston Wine Market to try something new. She put together a virtual Wine Tasting for every Wednesday in May that we could both share on our social media. Here are the first three posts, in case you missed them, complete with Kenaston's reasons for the selection. All featured wines are available online from Kenaston Wine Market for parking-lot pick-up &/or free contactless delivery in Winnipeg. Visit www.kenastonwine.com.

Join us LIVE on Instagram for
Virtual PTE Wine Tasting Wednesday on May 27th!

PTE Artistic Director Thomas Morgan Jones & Marlies from Kenaston Wine Market will co-host a live wine tasting, taking you through 3 different wines that have been paired to complement the theme of PTE’s upcoming season – that means new and innovative theatre paired with new and innovative wines!

The wines:
Edoardo Miroglio’s Bio red (organic)
Arrayan Rosado
Yalumba Sauvignon Blanc from The Y Series

Pick up a feature 3-pack with all three wines at Kenaston Wine Market and join us for happy hour! Find them here: https://kenastonwine.com/collections/pte-wine-wednesdays. Available for parking-lot pick-up or free contactless delivery in Winnipeg.

To join the virtual tasting  follow @prairie_theatre and @kenastonwinemarket on Instagram and click to view the livestream at 5:30 on Wednesday, May 27th!

May 13 - BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION

From Kenaston:

The March Wine Tasting Wednesday was to be during By Grand Central Station, inspired by the novel by Elizabeth Smart, just days after PTE was forced to cancel the remainder of the performances. The show was a visual, musical, & poetic performance about finding great love, loving with abandon and the raw emotion of losing that love.

For the wines, we selected themes of adventure, comfort, sass and happiness, sorrow.

Our “comfort” pick was West Avenue Autumn Cider – there is something warm & comforting about apples and the thought of autumn brought to mind pictures of New York in the fall. Our food pairing would have been perogies.

“Adventure” was chicken curry paired with Decoy Pinot Noir. The wine expresses flavours of redberries and rose petals with silky tannins. The dancers in the play were a visual display of the emotions in the relationship and the texture of this wine reminded us of that fluid, raw movement.

Sass & happiness” are represented by the pairing of smoked salmon on baguette with cream cheese and dill paired with Yealands Sauvignon Blanc. Sauvignon Blanc is crisp, inviting and layered with flavours – nectarine, pineapple and tart yellow grapefruit. It is a wine that smiles, reminds of sunny days, intimacy and laughter – the best parts of love.

Elizabeth Smart spent time in BC while pregnant with her first child – and so we felt it was fitting to end with Nanaimo bars paired with a Madeira that is normally used as an apéritif – a new beginning for a poet in a new land.

The Wine Education Station in the Lobby was to have featured two wines from Sicily – Da Vero Biologico Bianco & Rosso.