Events

We would like to invite you to come out to Guelph and partake in our.... 6th Annual Ontario Consumers' Riesling Challenge (O.C.R.C. 2012). A unique, Customer dedicated Event. This Annual Event is held at the LCBO Store #495 in Guelph. Wineries will be featuring multiple styles of Riesling from dry to off dry. Homemade trophies will be awarded for the winner in each of the two categories. Local food purveyors involved are: Chartelli's Fine Cheeses (local cheeses), Quican Inc.(with his own lin eof artisan breads Quentessentials), Delta Guelph Hotel (local matching fare), Planet Bean (100% Organic, Fair Trade Coffee) and sparkling water. Participating customers will pay $10.00 admission fee for which you will receive 4 tasting tickets. The wineries that will be participating are: Cattail Creek Estate Winery, Colaneri Estate Winery, Featherstone Estate Winery, Fielding Estate Winery, Flat Rock Cellars, Good Earth Vineyard & Winery, Hinterbrook Estate Winery, G. Marquis Vineyards, Megalomaniac, Pondview Estate Winery, Rosewood Estates Winery, Sue-Ann Staff Winery, 13th Street Winery and Thirty Bench Winery. The collection of admission will go directly to Bracelet of Hope (Braceletofhope.ca). Participating consumers will also receive a bracelet, which symbolizes hope; one country reaching out to another and both transformed by the experience. Bracelet of Hope is an example of international cooperation, a project aimed to assist Lesotho in overcoming its AIDS pandemic. Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik, recipient of the Order of Ontario, an HIV physician in Guelph co-ordinates the Bracelet of Hope project. In 2005 she founded and now directs the Masai Centre for Local, Regional and Global Health, in response to the growing numbers of HIV/AIDS patients in the Guelph area.