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Producer Dinner: Broc Cellars

18 Reasons
Saturday, January 26 2013, 7-9PM
Producer Dinner: Broc Cellars
$75 for 18 Reasons members; $85 for the general public

Ticket price includes four-course meal, wine pairings & tip. Please note this meal is not vegetarian- any dietary restrictions please email olivia@18reasons.org.

Join us for another edition to our series of Producer Dinners where we invite Chris Brockway, from Broc Cellars to our long wooden table. Chef Wyatt Sandberg from Bi-Rite will craft a four course meal paired perfectly with Chris' wines.

From Broc Cellars:

Broc Cellars was nothing more than an idea not that long ago, about making wines that were "site specific". Where the wines true character came from using only sustainably, organically, or biodynamically grown grapes from areas that most would consider marginal climates. Believing that vineyards develop 'true' character and complexity when they have to struggle to survive.

This can come from many different aspects: poor nutrient and water holding capacity, steep slopes, cool temperatures, or from old vines that are dry farmed. In the cellar we try to continue this practice using minimal intervention, in an effort to let the grapes speak for themselves.

We are a 'low wattage' winery in the sense that we have very little modern equipment. Grapes are pitchforked whole-cluster into the fermenters, fermentation is allowed to happen spontaneously, all wines are basket pressed, with little/no sulphur used in our wines until bottling. True asphalt winemaking, in an urban winery.