Welcome to Somewhereness, the showing of six premium Ontario wineries (Flat Rock, Norman Hardie, Malivoire, Stratus, Tawse and Charles Baker). For the media tasting Somewhereness was held somewhere-else … the St. Lawrence Market demo kitchen, instead of where the main event was happening for the rest of the folks (in the evening) – Artscape Wychwood Barns. Something-else was interesting about this year's event … it would seem that Tawse has officially changed their name to “Tawes”, a fellow writer pointed out the new spelling on the printed material we received (our tasting sheet) each incident that should have read "Tawse” was actually spelled "T-A-W-E-S" … even the websites and e-mail address. An interesting way to announce your new name, with subtlety, very Tawse/Tawes like.
Aside from the new spellings and name changes Somewhereness is a very interesting events; a chance to try the new releases (and in one case, back vintages) of some of Ontario’s premier (read expensive) wineries.
Tawse (or Tawes) …
I’ll start this off with some kudos to this winery … (Read more)