Taste Victoria 2012: Win a Getaway
Taste: Victoria’s Festival of Food and Wine returns for the fourth year, July 19th to 22nd, to showcase the best and freshest culinary creations in BC. There are four focused event categories for events that include: Land, Ocean, Cuisine, and Wine.
The Main Event takes place Thursday, July 19, 2012 at the Crystal Garden. It’s a cuisine and wine tasting with over 100 participating vineyards from around the province and samples from some of Vancouver Island’s own top chefs.
The festival continues with events like Sustainable Seafood: Taste and Learn at Finest At Sea; Band, Bubbles, and Bennys; Land and Sea Harvest on the Family Farm; and the Pinot Noir Challenge. At Swine and the Vine at the Hotel Grand Pacific a whole suckling pig will be roasted and paired with BC wines, teas, ciders, and more. This ‘nose to tail’ event is definitely for pork lovers and will be prepared by Executive Chef Rick Choy and his team.
Tickets are available for individual events and tastings starting at $19 and going up to $159. Packages are also available for combination tickets.
Taste Victoria has graciously offered up an amazing prize package so that one Miss604 reader and their guest can enjoy this celebration of homegrown food and wine this summer. The prize includes: A 2-night stay at the Hotel Grand Pacific, a pair of tickets to the Main Event, a pair of tickets to Swine and the Vine, and a roundtrip flight courtesy of Harbour Air.
Enjoy the Hotel Grand Pacific’s athletic club, spa, and free wireless internet in your room and around the property. The winner and their guest will fly from Vancouver Harbour to Victoria Harbour on Thursday, July 19th returning Saturday, July 21st on Harbour Air. Harbour Air offers regularly scheduled flights to and from Vancouver Island as well as sightseeing tours from Vancouver Harbour or their float plane base near Vancouver International Airport’s South Terminal.
Here’s how you can enter to win this 2-day getaway to Taste Victoria:
- Leave a comment here naming your favourite BC-sourced ingredient (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner next Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 12:00pm. Prize is valid for Taste Victoria 2012 events and travel only. Cannot be redeemed for travel or a stay any other time. If the winner drawn at random cannot attend July 19 to 21, 2012, another winner will be selected. Must be 19 years of age or older to enter.
Follow the festival on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
Update The winner is Aimee!
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My favourite BC-sourced ingredient are the amazing raspberries that will be coming our way soon.
My favorite BC sourced ingredient is qualicum beach scallops
Favourite BC ingredient? Peaches. We are spoilt for choice!
raspberries 🙂
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Okanagan Peaches I would say has been the fave ingredient, is hockey an ingredient?
I love, love, love Saltspring Island Goat Cheese! YUMMY!
It has to be the salmon. It never tastes better than when it’s right out of the Pacific Ocean.
Ooh! I’m doubling up on Saltspring Island Goat Cheese! So good!
cherries!!!
Oh my gosh, where to start? The wines or the seafood?
My favourite BC sourced ingredient right now is; SALMON
Cherries for sure!!!
Blueberrys from the valley
Wild BC salmon
Strawberries!
Wild BC Salmon definitely!!
Love wild BC salmon!
All the incredible seafood the BC coast has to offer!
Hmmm, can’t beat our peaches!
grapes…for Okanagan wines 🙂
I will go with Blackberry’s
BC Salmon!
Wild mushrooms!
love our spot prawns! delish!
My favourite is fanny bay oysters!
so much to choose from! My first thought was tomatoes, so I’ll stick with that 🙂
Huckleberries from the backcountry !
Fanny Bay oysters and tasty Pacific (Dungeness) Crab! Yum!!
BC spot prawns, hands down!
BC cherries–both Bing and Rainer varieties!
Salmon is the best!
Local strawberries are the best!
My favorite BC ingredient is bacon.
Richmond blueberries!
Hmmm… is wine an ingredient? If so 8th Generation Riesling. If not, Fraser Valley Strawberries!
Definitely wild BC salmon
It’s a tie: Okanagan Peaches or our prawns….
Spot prawns!
Cherries for sure! 🙂
Local Spot Prawns!
Fresh, fresh UNI (sea-urchin) from the West Coast of Vancouver Island and then our luscious grapes from the wine-growing region of the Okanagan!!
BC Blueberries all the way!
Strawberries!
Morel mushrooms
BC Morels!
Cherries!
Spot prawns…yum!
BC wines… hands down
cherries!
Qualicum Beach Scallop a sustainable alternative to commercially dredged scallops. They are meaty, clean-tasting and uncommonly sweet.
Wow, tough choice…I’ll go with two of my favourites: BC Salmon of course and Gray Monk wines (for sipping or incorporating into dishes!)
Fresh Pacific salmon is my favourite!
Fresh BC Salmon…hoping to catch some this July!
My favorite BC sourced ingredient are delicious Fanny Bay Oysters!! Yum! 🙂
Omg, for fruit: cherries, for veg: corn on the cob, for fish: salmon..I love local products.
I can’t choose one. Salmon, cherries, all the berries, spot prawns, dungeness crab, Salt Spring lamb, Pemberton beef, Fraser Valley cheeses, Chilliwack corn…
I can’t choose between berries & fresh seafood – BC living is a foodlover’s dream!
If you haven’t had Finest At Sea cold smoked tuna, you haven’t lived! I swear, it is my most favourite food in BC… P.S. I can’t win because I run the Taste festival… love, love, love the question @Miss604!
Raspberries! So much so that I’m going to try and grow them myself.
BC Salmon!and I love Victoria!!
Salmon
The perfect prize and the perfect time to win it *fingers crossed*. I’m a wino and a lover of sustainable BC food products! I love our fresh fruit – especially raspberries, cherries and peaches and prawns, crab and halibut.
Its gotta be cherries for me! 🙂
BC Strawberries! Yum!
Berries! all of ’em.
Macintosh apples!
Anything fruit from the valley, but in the end blueberries are #1.
Chilliwack Sweet Corn. .. yum yum yum…. can’t wait!!!
BC strawberries!!!
Mission Hill merlot!
BC spot prawns!
I love blueberries! Best BC thing!
BLUEBERRIES
bc salmon
Salmon with cherries being a close second
Salmon:)
BC grapes that are made into wine 🙂
Oh raspberries oh raspberries oh how I can’t wait till your on my plate. Excellent for shakes, with milk, straight up and pasteries mmmmmmmmmmm
BC Raspberries!
Raspberry’s hands down! i wait all year for those!<3
My favourite BC sourced ingredient is local strawberries. Yuuummmzzz!!!
Going to have to go with all the fresh, organic produce – beans, lettuce, peas…..
Fresh, sweet local strawberries
BC’s Organic Blueberries! 🙂 MY FAVE
Berries!!! Blueberries, strawberries, wild blackberries… So much goodness!
I would have to say anything from Glenwood meats in Victoria!
BC spot prawns, local strawberries… any/all organic produce sold at the summer markets!!! We are so lucky!!
I really can’t decide between u-pick organic blueberries or Okanagan peaches! Or salmon.
blueberries from PoCo – such a great family activity from the source, to making the pies, and to eating it together!
BC spot prawns!
All the berries! Mmm.
raspberries!!
right now, BC spot prawns are high on the list!
spot prawns and blueberries tied
I love BC bluberries and wild sockeye salmon.
My favourite ingredient would have to be Spot Prawns! It’s just a shame that they’re only available for such a short period each year. Or is that a good thing? LOL
I really want to take a flight on a Sea Plane so I hope I win (that and the wining and dining sounds scrumptious). Good luck everyone!
Apples from Penticton!
salmon!
Blueberries!
BC Delicious Apples!
BC Blueberries absolutely the best!
Sockeye Salmon is definitely my all time favourite!
Gotta be salmon!
I can’t pick just one so I would have say any flavour cheese from the cheese farm in Grand Forks….and ALL the wonderful BC fruits and veggies! Blueberries, strawberries raspberries from the Valley yum! Peaches, apples, pears from the Okanagan! Fresh cauliflower, beets, beans from right down the street on Marine Drive in Burnaby….
Local Bleuberries, they are famous
Local Raspberries, yum!
Chilliwack’s sweet CORN!
Blueberries are the best. However, ice wine is a close second!
Blueberries!
wild BC spotted prawns!
Raspberries, blueberries, black and red currants! And the goat cheese from Salt Spring.
Our Organic Blueberry’s , fresh from my garden!!! and can’t live without fresh bc Salmon! we are lucky to live here!
Berries!!
Fresh sea food, of course
Wild BC Sockeye Salmon!
cherries
fresh bc blueberries all the way!!!
Without a doubt – wild BC salmon!
Ling Cod is my favourite BC sourced food. Most people do not know that when you catch it and cut it open, it’s bright blue on the inside. Once the fish is frozen, the fish goes white. It’s absolutely delicious cooked fresh on the beach.
This is a fantastic contest! I’ve always wanted to be able to fly to Victoria! *fingers crossed*
Tweeting this!
Blueberries!
Berries, berries, berries! Thanks!
Had my first taste of Fanny Bay Oyster at Red Fish and Blue Fish. Very delicious and fresh. Support BC sourced foods.
oysters
Salmon of course!
either salmon or spot prawns!!
Fanny Bay Oysters here on Vancouver Island are wonderful as well as the mixed organic salad greens from Nanoose Edibles. I also love the delicious Nanaimo and North African sausage from the Nanaimo Sausage house which is made on site from locally sourced ingredients.
BC strawberries and salmon of course!
Blueberries can not get enough
Peaches!
Love B.C. blueberries
this sounds like such a good getaway!
Salmon berries
local strawberries and corn
wild blueberries!!
Spot prawns of course!
I love BC spot prawns from False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf. Buy local!
BC Apples
Too many good ones to choose from; we’re spoiled here in BC! I think spot prawns are my absolute favorite though.
Local raspberries. Hands down. I have picked them almost every summer at the farm!
Blueberries!!
It has to be UBC Farm’s very own organic strawberries amd herbs!
Absolutely has to be fresh dungeness crab pulled up in the trap and eaten immediately with lots and lots of melted butter. So fabulous!
Best of BC: wild morel and chantrelle mushrooms.
When blueberries from the valley are available, it’s like Christmas Part Deux.
Wild bc salmon!
Definitely cherries!
mmmm peaches!
My favorite has to be BC Cherries!
Okanagan apples!
Mmmmm… organic Okanagan peaches does it for me. (Cherries too but they go so fast).
hmmm hard to choose…strawberries, cherries, raspberries and WINE!!
BC Salmon
Okanagan peaches and Lulu Island blueberries
Okanagan cherries!
B.C. Nugget Potatoes
Peaches – and corn!
Cherries!
zpot prawns
*spot prawns
BC spot prawns are a BC treat for sure!
Qualicum Bay scallops are one of my favourite BC ingredients 🙂
Raspberries…definitely Raspberries <3
Okanagan Wine
It’s a tie between salmon and wine!!! Oh, sweet sweet winee!!!!!!! =)
Bc spot prawns , fo course
BC strawberries…the taste of summer!
Wild salmon
our blueberries are the best!
BC Wild Salmon!!!
B.C. Chocolate!!
Little Qualicum Beach cheese from Vancouver Island…amazing!
Blueberries, prawns, peaches, strawberries, salmon…so hard to choose one!
No contest for me: blueberries! They are nature’s candies.
Definitely blueberries!
Blueberries!!!
It’s gotta be the raspberries… mmmmm
Freshly caught prawns, and Okanagan peaches! My hubby would say BC wine.
prawns!
blueberries
I really enjoy BC corn!
chilliwack corn and bc cherries are my fave oh and don’t forget our infamous bc salmon!!!! BC…how i love thee!!!
Local Chilliwack Corn. SO So Sweet.
Fresh corn and blue berries!
Wild BC salmon is tops, followed by strawberries which are sadly not doing so hot this year (hence the second-place vote)
Salmon, oysters, peaches so hard to choose! My son has been to your area and we his mom and dad have not! Help us out it would b a dream come true! Sounds awesome
Okanagan peaches and locally grown ginseng.
My favourite BC sourced ingredient is our mouth-watering Fanny Bay oysters!
So many to choose from!
Raspberries from my community garden plot are my current favourite!
Pacific salmon is my favourite, especially raw!
BC Spot Prawns
local berries
Cranberries from the Fraser Valley
wild BC Salmon!!!
Wild BC salmon!
Wild Salmon!!
Bluberry!
Sea Asparagus! It’s like the land and sea in your mouth all at the same time!
Definitely the dungeoness crab….cooked on the beach with my amazing wife.
oooo raspberries!!!
blueberries!
apples and peaches from the Okanagan
Salmon from my home town of Campbell River – the Salmon Capital of the World!!!
blueberries from the Fraser Valley
Love our seafood – prawnd and salmon especially
BC Cherry!
Blueberries …especially from the wonderful fields of Abbotsford, are my favourite B.C. sourced ingredient. Just add a little Greek yogurt.
our local cranberries!!! Mmmmmmmm!!! 🙂
Spot Prawns in the month of may of course!
Fave B.C.-sourced ingredient = peaches. Thank you.
straweberries all the way
Blueberries
strawberries
Chilliwack corn is one of my local faves
Of course our salmon! We are so spoilt to have some of the world’s best seafood right on our coast!
Mission hill wine 🙂
Wild BC Salmon!!
Cherries =)
Cranberries… yummmmm
Blueberries and strawberries
Definitely the BC salmon!
Definitely BC Spot Prawns, love to eat them!
Well, BC nugget potatoes of course.
Wild BC salmon!
wild bc salmon for sure
Too many choices! I love strawberries straight out of my garden though. Can’t get much more local than that.
Wow thats like the hardest question ever.. Going with Okanagan Cherries but the salmon, lamb, fiddleheads, peaches, spot prawns, i could barely narrow it to a top ten!
Blueberries and peaches
I wait not-so-patiently every year for those delish blueberries to ripen! Can’t wait!
Spoting prawns
Spoting prawns, oysters,salmon ,halibut.
okanagan cherries!
Nothing in the world beats salmon of the BC Wild kind 🙂
Salmon for sure! There are so many choices though!
Favourite BC-based ingredient is wild salmon, of course 🙂
Raspberries from Krause Berry Farms in Langley! And Tomatoes from my home garden in Cloverdale 🙂
Fresh Vancouver Island strawberries
I love freshly-picked blueberries from the Fraser Valley and Richmond! Great for eating fresh, in jams, in smoothies, in my mom’s pies and on top of ice cream!
Fresh wild BC SALMON! And Blueberries!
Okanagan Peaches
Do I have to name only one???!!!! RASPBERRIES are about my favourite. And all berries. Then there are fresh OK cherries, peaches, etc. And I can’t forget fresh Salmon from our local waters. OK – now I’m hungry!!!
Love our BC seafood…any kind!
Favourite B.C. sourced ingredient? B.C. salmon… and fresh berries! I don’t think I have been to Victoria since I was a kid attending a swim meet?!
Wild Salmon
Cherries
The blackberries I pick from my secret location every summer.
<3 Blueberries! <3
Strawberries. Westham Island ones in particular.
A side of smoked bc sockeye salmon and some select cheeses
Saltspring Island lamb from the sunset farms. or the goat cheese!
(One of my) favourite BC sourced ingredients is Brie from the Little Qualicum Cheeseworks!
Okanagan cherries OMG love them
Dungeness crab! So many runners-up, we live in a paradise of bounty.
i LOVE FORAGED MUSHROOMS