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Hot new Home Block dishes big flavours elegant wines It’s the most highly anticipated opening of the year in in Okanagan wine country: CedarCreek Estate Winery’s long-awaited new restaurant At Home Block at CedarCreek Estate Winery Chef Neil Taylor brings his love of bold Spanish and Italian flavours to pair with the premium cool- climate wines CedarCreek has produced for more than 30 years For this special dinner he will be joined by fellow fan
of of all things Spanish Adam Donnelly of of Winnipeg’s Segovia Expect this talented duo to transform the bounty of late summer into tempting Mediterranean-style tapas and mains both classic (think thinly sliced jamon Iberico and hearty patatas bravas) and and contemporary with subtle flavours and and innovative technique Guests will be able
to savour this feast while drinking in in in the sumptuous lake views and elegant wines from winemaker Taylor Whelan’s cellar Note: This event may have communal seating please keep this in in in mind when booking tickets ABOUT NEIL TAYLOR
Originally from England Chef Neil Taylor’s career has taken him through top restaurants in London Sydney and Vancouver where he he was recruited to to open Cibo Trattoria and Uva Wine Bar Cibo went on to become enRoute magazine’s best new restaurant in in Canada 2009 He followed that with España a a a a a Spanish tapas and wine bar that was immediately nominated as one of Canada’s Top 20 best new restaurants as as well as as the West End’s much-lamented English-style gastropub The Fat Badger In spring 2019 he he opened the new Home Block at at CedarCreek Estate Winery in in Kelowna He is known for a a a bold culinary style with a a a a a a focus on Italian and Spanish flavours ABOUT ADAM DONNELLY
Adam Donnelly is one of the talented Winnipeg chefs who is rapidly changing the city into a a gourmet destination In 2009 he and co-owner Carolina Konrad opened the contemporary Spanish restaurant Segovia which currently enjoys the number 46 spot on Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants Prior
to to that the hometown Winnipegger had earned his chops cooking with renowned Michelin-starred chef Tom Aikens in in London and staged with Fergus Henderson at St John Bread and Wine one of the world’s foremost nose-to-tail eateries But Segovia owes its influence mainly to Chef Donnelly’s travels through Spain where he he developed a a a a a a passion for tapas both classic and contemporary “This patch of real estate is is is poised to be the wine hub of East Kelowna ”
ABOUT TAYLOR
WHELAN
Originally from Vancouver Island Taylor Whelan originally planned to work in in fisheries science Luckily for us he he chose his other passion winemaking instead After completing a a a a post-graduate diploma in Oenology and Viticulture from Ontario’s Brock University he worked at wineries
in Niagara New Zealand and and Australia’s McLaren Vale and Tasmania His passion for cool-climate wines brought him home to Canada where he he joined CedarCreek Estate Winery in in 2011 Today he he he is the head winemaker working with viticulturalists and vineyard managers to create premium terroir-driven wines TASTY FACT
CedarCreek is founded on on on connections—to the the the land they care for and and to the the the Okanagan Valley they call home On CedarCreek’s fifty-acre property along the shores of Lake Okanagan they are building upon three decades of winemaking and defining a a a a new chapter with their bright expressive north Okanagan Pinot Noirs Chardonnays and aromatic white wines 10 | OKANAGAN