Know Your Vino

Scotty’s Table supports local non-profits and so can you by just eating and drinking! On Wednesday, February 24th Scotty’s will be donating ten percent of the dining proceeds to Montana Conservation Voters. This is calendar event Scotty’s is looking to do once a month for our local non-profits, helping to focus on the basic needs [...]

This Sunday, January 31 at 5 pm, Cork Works wine company will be featuring organic and sustainable wines from around the world at Biga Pizza. These wines will be paired with a 5-course meal, featuring locally produced foods. The cost of the event is $50 per person. This collaboration and event is a fundraiser for [...]

Met up with Kurt Winegardner, owner of Winegardner’s Distributing in Bozeman last night for a tasting of Elderton Australian wines (which I will review in another post). After the tasting we headed over to the Silk Road for a bite to eat with Chris Niswanger of Wordens and Lacey Marquesen who also works for Winegardners. [...]

On January 8th, 2010, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition concluded the annual week of judging at the Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds in Sonoma County, California. Over five days, 63 professional wine experts tasted and evaluated a world-record breaking 4,913 entries.
Trapper Peak Winery in Darby Montana took home two silver medals. Winemaker Keith Smith won for [...]

A vertical wine tasting is the technical tasting of one specific wine from a producer across several vintage years. There is nothing quite like a vertical tasting to truly experience and understand the collaborative effort that takes between the winemaker, Mother Nature and Father Time. It also provides a real, albeit rare, opportunity to discover [...]

Fourth Annual Western Montana Wine Festival Set For October 30
The “social event of the year” is coming soon. The 4th Annual Western Montana Wine Festival is scheduled for Friday, October 30, at the Hilton Garden Inn.  The event will run from 7-10 p.m.
The festival consists of fine wine and beer tasting with food samples from [...]

Klinker Brick winery president, Lynne Whyte Barnard is hosting a wine dinner at Blue Canyon Saturday evening at 6:30 pm. The dinner will showcase the Klinker Brick wines, accompanied by what promises to be a delicious five course meal created by Chef Larry Coffman. The cost is $55 per person, not including gratuity. Call 406-541-2583 [...]

Outstanding in the Field comes to Missoula for a feast at the farm.
Outstanding in the Field, a California-based band of culinary gypsies who stage white-tablecloth dinners in farm fields across North America, will be doing its first-ever event in Montana as the group crosses the country for its 2009 National Tour.  
On Saturday, July 25, Outstanding in the Field will set its long [...]

Just got back from vacation, spent a week on the east coast with good friends vacationing at Fenwick Island/Bethany Beach in Delaware. It is one of my favorite places to spend my time. Of course I did some wine drinking there and will be sharing some of those bottles with you this week on the [...]

Ten Spoon Winery, located in Missoula’s Rattlesnake Valley has added a few more accolades to its growing list of awards. They captured a gold medal, a Best of Region award, a silver medal and three bronze medals for five of its wines from the 2009 Northwest Wine Summit Competition, the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition [...]