Music & Wine Pairing

REST + RELAXATION YING + YANG MUSIC + WINE

 

Sometimes you need to retreat and just unplug from the world. Turn off the phone and pass on television. Let there be some quality you and you time with the best music and a glass of wine. Here’s our recommendation for a heavenly evening.

 

Wine and Music Pairing with Q’s Top Albums Of 2010

 

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Arcade Fire The Suburbs and Summerhill Pyramid Winery’s Cipes Brut This award winning sparkling wine hints at crisp macintosh apples and fresh orchard pears. Busy, but not complicated, suits a meditative mood.
http://www.summerhill.bc.ca/ http://www.arcadefire.com/ http://www.myspace.com/arcadefireofficial/music
 
The National High Violet and Arrowleaf Cellars First Crush Red Smooth, inky dark with layers of chocolate and high violet.
http://www.arrowleafcellars.com/ http://www.highviolet.com/
 
Shad TSOL and Blasted Church Hatfield’s Fuse A spiritual blend of music and flavours. This white wine hosts flavours of melon, granny smith apples, citrus, tropical fruit and spice.
http://blastedchurch.com/ http://www.shadk.com/bloggy-blog/
 
Robert Plant Band of Joy and Joie Farm Winery Noble Blend Previous releases always win Gold Medals, this joyful white wine blend is dominated by tangerine, cloves and coriander.
http://www.joie.ca/ http://www.robertplant.com/
 
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot and Painted Rock Red Icon Mocha, coffee, spice and ripe fruit, this earthy, inventive and masterful wine received the 2010 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in BC Wines.
http://www.paintedrock.ca/ http://www.myspace.com/bigboi/music
 
Gorillaz Plastic Bleach and Stoneboat Vineyards Pinotage Spiced plums, chocolate, cedar This red received the 2009 BC Lt Governor’s Award of Excellence. Very cool!
http://www.stoneboatvineyards.com/ http://gorillaz.com/
 
Karkwa Les Chemins De Verre and Young & Wyse ‘33*30*24*13’ The numbers represent percentages of red grape varietals blended together. Look for licorice, espresso beans, exotic spices and ripe red fruits shot through like a masterful quiver of arrows.
http://www.youngandwysewine.com/ http://www.karkwa.com/english.php
 
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Jackson Triggs Sunrock Vineyard Meritage Lush ripe red berries, mocha and vanilla spice. Double Gold winner at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition.
http://www.jacksontriggswinery.com/en/okanaganEstate/index.html http://kanyewest.com/
 
Land Of Talk Cloak and Cipher and NK’MIP Winery Qwam Qwmt Cabernet Sauvignon Rich dried black fruit and cassis, toasty cedar spice, complex vanilla, coffee, pepper and cherry. Gold Medal at the 2010 Canadian Wine Awards.
http://www.nkmipcellars.com/ http://www.myspace.com/landoftalk/music
 
Broken Bells Broken Bells and Twisted Tree Viognier Subtly attractive, a swooning harmony of stone fruits, citrus blossoms, peach, apricot and ginger are present in this white wine. Two silver medals.
http://www.twistedtree.ca/ http://www.brokenbells.com/
 
Wines available throughout BC at private specialty wine stores, VQA stores, and Signature BC Liquorstores and online. Music is available from http://www.amazon.ca and http://www.itunes.ca