Tasting passport 2014

A DRAM COME TRUE Savour the superb, complex flavours of a variety of rare and distinguished single malts

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The Vancouver Writers Fest The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations.

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For the past 26 years, the Writers Fest has enriched our imaginations and the culture of our city and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation.

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The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists. For six days in October, this celebration takes place in the cultural oasis of Granville Island, and continues throughout the year with the Incite reading series at the VPL, special events with leading writers and the Spreading the Word education programs at Lower Mainland schools and in small BC communities.

Ideas create books, but people create the Festival. The Writers Fest brings people of all backgrounds together—writers, children, adults, staff and hundreds of volunteers—all of whom love to read. They also love what reading represents: the stirring of ideas, the sparks of recognition, and the realization that we are all connected.

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A Dram Come True is a fundraiser for the Vancouver Writers Fest October 21 - 26, 2014

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Event Committee:

Mark French, Alison Hart, Frank Leffelaar, Dave Mason and Kim Thorne

Dave Mason, The Vancouver Writers Fest Board of Directors, Emelle’s Catering and A&B Party Rentals.

Musicians:

Piper, Milton Cameron Pianist, Julien Amar

Volunteers: Joseph Gillis Brandon Henderson James Tyler Irvine Nancy Kisby Melanie Last Alec Leibsohn

Donors: Benton Brothers Fine Cheese Blackcomb Aviation Chocolate Arts Dave Mason Eagrainie Yuh East India Carpets Fets Whisky Kitchen Granville Island Brewing Hastings House Hotel Kavalan Leslie Hurtig Lesperance Mendes Liberty Distillery Meluki Marketing Paul Whitney

Catering Sponsor:

Corby

Tasting expert: Keith Trusler

Special thanks to:

Jen Andersen Louisa Brunke Sherry Buim Karen Campbell Liz Costello Emily Davidson

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Zoe Manarangi Bake-Paterson Heather McCarthy Jennifer Passas Anita Salchert Ariel Spence Fiona Wei Nicole Yeh

Richard and Virginia Angus Sally Harding Sandi Case Sandra Jakab and Robert Lesperance Shanik Restaurant Shirley Lew Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa The Listel Hotel The Wickaninnish Inn Tinhorn Creek Wedgewood Hotel & Spa Xoxolat Yaseen Al-Salam Yasmeen Strang

Raffle Donors:

Glenlivet 12 Year Old Nose: Summer meadows and tropical fruits, notably pineapple. Vibrant.

Palate: Floral notes of fresh peaches and pears, vanilla.

Finish: Marzipan and fresh hazelnuts.

Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Year Old Nose: Fresh summer-like medley of floral and sweet spice. Gentle notes of oak.

Palate: Smooth and silky with the sweetness of orchard fruits and honeyed flowers.

Finish: Oak finish of considerable length with notes of ginger and hazelnuts.

Glenlivet 18 Year Old Nose: Fragrant, elegant, complex with rich sweet fruit aromas and toffee notes.

Palate: Smooth and wonderfully balanced.

Burst of spices and bitter oranges, drying out on oaky notes.

Finish: Long and lingering, with rich fruits and spice.

Aberlour 12 Year Old Nose: Soft and rounded with fruity notes of red apple.

Palate: Sherried character and fruity aromas balanced with a rich chocolate, toffee, cinnamon and ginger spiciness.

Finish: Warming and lingering. Sweet and slightly spicy.

Aberlour A’bunadh Nose: Mixed spices, praline and spiced orange harmonize with deep notes of Oloroso sherry.

Palate: Orange, black cherries, dried fruit and ginger spiked with bitter dark chocolate and enriched with sherry and oak. Full bodied and creamy.

Finish: Robust and intense with bittersweet notes of exotic spices, dark chocolate and oak.

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Kavalan Tasting expert: Thomas Chen

Kavalan Concertmaster Nose: Tropical fruitiness with honey, vanilla, coconut and candy floss.

Palate: Rich bodied with natural sweetness and complexity.

Ex-Bourbon Oak Nose: Clean and fresh tropical fruitiness with vanilla, coconut and spices.

Palate: Soft, well-balanced natural sweetness. Vanilla and oak spices.

Finish: Round and complex with silky smoothness.

Sherry Oak Nose: Clean and complex with multi-layers of dried fruit, nuttiness and spices. Touches of marzipan and vanilla.

Palate: Smooth, well-balanced natural sweetness, full with pleasant dried fruit and spices.

Finish: Elegant and long.

Uisge Source Water Water from private sources close to the key whisky regions in Scotland.

• Hard water: High in minerals from the Highland region. Filtered through red sandstone.

• Soft water: Low in minerals from the Speyside region. Filtered through granite.

• Islay water: Higher natural acidity thanks to filtration through peat.

A Dram Come True Silent Auction Drams up for auction: Member’s Legacy Caperdonich

A Dram regarded as one of the most extraordinary batches of malt of all time.

Glenfiddich Age of Discovery

A taste of Glenfiddich’s Age of Discovery Line. Includes the Madeira Cask Finish, the Bourbon Cask Reserve and the Red Wine Cask.

Lagavulin 16 Year Old

Pungent and potent, this is the great Islay Malt.

Glenlivet 16 Year Old Nadurra Cask Strength

The most natural expression of The Glenlivet. It is batch produced at cask strength using traditional methods.

The Balvenie Double Wood

A 12 year old single malt which gains its distinctive character from being matured in two wood types.

Bruichladdich 10 Year Old

Malted from only Scottish barley, slow-fermented for purity, triple-distilled for creamy texture and cask-filled at 70% for extra flavour.

The Bowmore Collection

A collection of three of the finest Bowmore Scotch Whiskies: Bowmore 12 Year Old, Bowmore 15 Year Old and Bowmore 18 Year Old.

More fantastic silent auction items, including getaways, wine, food and experience packages in the dining room.

Raffle: Salt Spring Island Getaway A two night stay at Hastings House Hotel, an award-winning luxury hotel on Salt Spring Island, and a roundtrip seaplane flight from Vancouver to Salt Spring. Includes a full English breakfast, afternoon tea, $50 towards spa services at the Wellspring Spa and $50 towards dining.

Tickets: $20 (only 300 printed) Generously donated by Lesperance Mendes Lawyers & Hastings House Hotel.

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Bar Sponsors:

Bar 3 Legacy Liquor Store Tasting expert: Darryl Lamb Legacy Liquor Store is the largest privately owned liquor store in the province, home to thousands of products, including the largest premium Scotch and whisky selection in Vancouver. Legacy offers thousands of unique and specialty items, and knowledgeable product advisors are on-hand to help you pick out the tastiest tipples in town. If you are looking to pick up a bottle of something you tasted tonight, Legacy is your best bet.

Legacy will be pouring a surprise selection from the many premium whiskies they sell in-store.

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Tasting expert: Eric Fergie The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottles some of the finest single cask whisky in the world. Each Society bottling is unique and produced in a limited number, making each bottling incredibly rare. All the whisky comes from single casks and each cask produces distinctive flavours, aromas and taste sensations.

Tasting whisky from a single cask is made even more special by the fact that once it’s all been drunk it’s gone for good. So enjoy this rare opportunity to sample a selection of superb and exclusive bottlings.

29.132 Hospitals & Japanese Restaurants 41.52 Boiled Sweets and Play-doh 53.167 Old- Style Smoky Pubs 59.21 Subtle Fruits and Minerals 66.32 The Roly-Poly Pudding 121.62 Steak and Ale Pie G4.2 Attractive Spirit in a Cloak of Oak

Founded on rich farm land in 1993, Tinhorn Creek Vineyards overlooks a lush landscape and the old gold mining creek that is the winery’s namesake.

The winery’s 150 acre vineyards provide winemaker Sandra Oldfield with the fruit to craft superb wines that truly represent the place they are grown.

Oldfield Series 2 Bench White 2012 A food-friendly wine with elevated aromas.

This wine is dry and crisp with no oak aging or malolactic fermentation.

Oldfield Series 2 Bench Rosé A dry rosé that is a pale salmon colour. Aromas of rhubarb, strawberry blossoms, cranberry, and raspberry float out of the glass as you give it a swirl. A sip has flavours of strawberry, rhubarb, red currant, and raspberries dancing in your mouth.

Oldfield Series Merlot 2010 This is artfully crafted merlot, smooth and luscious (hello, south Okanagan), with flavours suggesting cherry and raspberry coated in dark chocolate and espresso. Blended with 6-per-cent cabernet franc and 1-per-cent syrah for a whisper of herbs and spice, it’s crowd pleasingly smooth and disciplined by dry, chewy tannins.

Oldfield Series 2 Bench Red 2010 A Bordeaux-style blend of merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot, this is expertly crafted, with lots of rich, crowd-pleasing berry and plum fruit in its medium-full-bodied frame, supported by tobacco and herbs. It also delivers solid structure owing to pleasantly sticky tannins and lively, cool-season acidity.

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Odd Society Spirits

Lifford Wine & Spirits

Tasting experts: Gordon Glanz and Joshua Beach

Tasting expert: Keenan Berg

Odd Society is a small-batch craft distillery in the heart of East Vancouver that is dedicated to combining old world distilling traditions with new world ingredients and ingenuity to create a family of spirits that entice and intrigue.

Bowmore 12 Year

East Van Vodka Made from 100% malted barley grown in Prince George and malted in Armstrong.

Lightly fragrant, sweet smelling and incredibly smooth. Sip it straight if you want to. Consider it a single malt vodka.

Glen Garioch 12 Year

Nose: Subtle lemon and honey, balanced beautifully by peaty smokiness.

Palate: Sweet and delicious heather honey and gentle peat smoke.

Finish: Long and mellow.

Nose: Heathery floral notes balanced by the richness of poached pears and the sweetness of malted barley.

Palate: Crème brûlée and sweet ripe banana at first, then comes a light oakiness with pear fruitiness.

Finish: Long, smooth, creamy and fragrant.

Bowmore 18 Year

Glen Garioch Founder’s Reserve

Nose: Smokiness, perfectly tempered with creamy caramel, chocolate and ripe fruit aromas.

Palate: Soft fruit and chocolate balanced with a light smokiness. Incredibly complex.

Finish: Long and wonderfully balanced.

Nose: Sweet vanilla and subtle spice combine with fruitier green apple and grapefruit.

Palate: Butter cream and vanilla pave the way to fruity green apple skin and citrus cleanliness.

Finish: Elegant and subtle.

Auchentoshan 12 Year Nose: Crème brûlée, a burst of citrus, nuttiness and green leafiness.

Palate: Smooth and sweet with hints of tangerine and lime.

Finish: Gingery and slightly drying, with a pleasant lingering nuttiness.

Chocolate Arts Whisky Pairings Tasting expert: Greg Hook Chocolate Arts crafts chocolate in small batches using the finest ingredients available.

They begin with the very best raw chocolate from producers in Belgium and France, many of which are single origin. Owner Greg Hook has curated a selection of fine chocolates to compiment the many whiskies you’ll be sampling at A Dram Come True.

Auchentoshan 3 Wood Nose: Blackcurrant, brown sugar, orange, plum and raisin.

Palate: Fruit and syrup. Hints of hazelnut, cinnamon and lemon. Butterscotch sweetness adds complexity.

Finish: Fresh and fruity, with long lasting oaky sweetness.

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Pemberton Distillery

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Bar 7 West Coast Whisky Society Tasting expert: Dave Mason

Pemberton Distillery is a boutique family owned and operated craft distillery set in the heart of the spectacular Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Pemberton’s mission is to produce an authentic and distinct spirit that captures the unique natural terroir of the beautiful region from where it comes.

Pemberton Valley Organic Single Malt Whisky, 2010 Single Cask Release Rich, nutty British Columbia malted barley and pristine water from our coast mountains give this whisky a classic West Coast flavour.

Nose: Malty, sweet dried fruits and spices.

Palate: Rich, dry grass and cereals. Vanilla oak.

Finish: Long, warm, honeyed.

Balvenie Doublewood Sponsored by: PMA Nose: Sweet fruit and Oloroso sherry notes, layered with honey and vanilla.

Palate: Smooth and mellow. Nutty sweetness, cinnamon spice and a layer of sherry.

Finish: Long and warming.

Glenfiddich Rich Oak 14 Year Old Sponsored By: PMA Nose: Initial spicy oak notes follow vibrant vanilla and rich dried fruit.

Palate: Rich and sweet vanilla with a silky texture and elegant hints of fruit. Deeper and richer with time as a subtle nutty character emerges.

Finish: Nuttiness develops into a spicy oak finish.

The Dalmore 12 Year Old Sponsored by: Authentic Wines & Spirits Nose: Citrus fruits, chocolate and aromatic spices.

Palate: Elegant and rich with concentrated citrus, oloroso sherry and hints of vanilla pod to finish.

Finish: Complex with roasted coffee and chocolate.

The GlenDronach 12 Year Old Sponsored by: Authentic Wines & Spirits Nose: Sweet, creamy vanilla, with hints of ginger.

Spiced mulled wine and pear.

Palate: Rich, creamy, silky-smooth. Warm, rich oak and sherry sweetness, full mouth feel, raisins and soft fruits. Spicy with medium length and a dry finish.

Finish: Long, full and firm, slightly nutty.

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