LCBO Food & Drink Autumn 2017

BY LUCY WAVERMAN & JAMES CHATTO • PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB FIOCCA AHEARTY harv st

Celebrate the harvest with plentiful platters heaped with the flavours of the season—accompanied by our expert’s picks of Ontario wines that may have been flying below your radar.

you’ve been working that hard, you deserve it!”    Looking for wines to serve with this al fresco celebration, we turned to wineries that may be less familiar than some, choosing a red and a white that are generous, a ordable, easy-drinking and will work with everything on the ta- ble, as well as a unique iced apple wine to pair with dessert. We hope you’ll use them to raise a glass to the new vintage and the people who gathered it in.    The ideal musical accompaniment to a picker’s feast? Picker’s music , of course. Visit lcbo.com/heartyharvest for a playlist flavoured with masterful, rootsy fingerpicking (on guitars, ban- jos, dobros, fiddles) curated by music columnist Ann Lough.

THERE’S A CONVIVIAL TRADITION in many wineries all around the world that when the grape harvest is finally finished, the hard-working pickers sit down with the winemakers for a feast. Lucy Waverman has followed the theme with this hearty fall spread that can be served either family style or as a buffet, whether or not you and your guests have been labouring for weeks in the vineyard. “The recipes had to be simple, involve big-batch cooking and be able to be made ahead of time,” Lucy explains. “I imagined them using local ingredients—may- be crops from a neighbouring farm— and I wanted grapes in something to honour the harvest. And then rich, luscious desser ts to finish . When

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