Wine Tasting and Seafood Foraging with Andre Mack and Claire King | Stories from Nimmo Bay

Hi I'm Becky Today Claire King joins Fraser and me—our Somalia in Nemo Bay and also Andre Houston Mack an amazing Somali from New York We'll set out by boat with wine and see what we can discover in the Great Bear Rainforest First we'll make the ferry right Yes we'll make the ferry Perfect okay I understand So we'll take them out there Okay then we'll just eat them raw Yeah okay My entrance that's not what you're talking about I've got you I'm here I'm right in the middle of it This is what you must do We heard the word shrimp for the first time It was like in a Jamie Foxx movie Period I'd experienced shrimp before but when I heard about BC spot prawns they're among the best Top-notch Got it You traveled far Yes So you could get your hands dirty and I could give you work I love it There's some smuggling going on here Put a bottle of wine or something in there They're smuggling it We didn't come for a bottle of wine I ended up getting a lot of wine instead I reclaimed my props Me too Someone pulled it out Someone stole it and gave us a bottle Oh my God that's a great tradition Yeah exactly Wow anticipation is really building now This is truly wild Imagine eating what we catch Eat what we catch Okay And try what we caught We also picked up some grape must That's incredible I'm far from Brooklyn Take it So these are the famous British Columbia spot products I've heard of them World-famous Yes they're beautiful They're incredible Let me take that Okay A potem is the part to eat And that's exactly what we'll be eating there Okay Yes So what do we have there We thought we'd pop open some champagne here Oh yes yes So genuinely inspired by music All of his sins are named after a musical element So the chromatic scale So this is going to be a homey style for all vintages I'm in And it pairs perfectly with shrimp and has the ideal temperature To your health To everyone's health It smells incredible It's like green apple grass You know what the hell We're out in the middle of nowhere you know This is a hospital an hour's drive from here Okay It's wild It's very sweet Really nice soft texture yet firm That firmness that hardness I love it It's the word I like it I'll choose it Oh that's truly remarkable I've never pulled anything from the water and simply never eaten it Yes You know what I mean Beyond the candy bar in the pool during sixth grade Well anyway That's just part of who you are isn't it We've lived here all our lives Our parents brought us here when were four years old We lived here all year round A tiny house on the water No electricity no power That’s probably the same thing Great My brother was here too around that time He must have been about three years old I was probably five but he was three He was here the whole year And yes that was certainly wild upbringing And yes it's simply part of him Come out here and catch shrimp and crabs That's incredible So we'll leave it there grab the second trap and then slip on our fins and jump into the ocean And we'll see what we can catch Alright I'm super excited Amazing Let's go in Let's get soaked Dot Do we have it Enough I've never dived before Guys so we're starting This is incredible Alright let's begin Just slip it over your head and you'll emerge It 's hard to put on It looks like everything is hard to put on Nice and tight Should be comfortable Yes very tight Good No we're starting Oh my God I'd never dived with a snorkel before I'd never worn a wet suit It was an achievement in itself Actually I spent more time putting it on than being in the water But it was my first time in life I think I'm about to be rewarded with a hedgehog and a sea frog That's me doing my favorite thing—scuba diving with a snorkel We've got hedgehogs We'll pair them with a delicious aromatic wine So the Pinot Noir from the Sta vineyard is quite compelling Since 2019 that has been my favorite sparkling wine in the entire British Columbia Undoubtedly one of the strangest and best places I've ever tried wine I understand it's the freshest I've never tasted anything like this before The memory will stay with me for the rest of my life It's like a thorn in the flesh It was worth spending 30 minutes to put on this foam Foam I think we probably need to include this in our regular schedule Eels we caught and dined on right from the source just a few feet beneath our feet where we had been diving It's an incredible feeling and an extraordinary experience Oh nothing feels fresher than this I know it sounds cliché but well I don 't know I just want to say thank you That was amazing truly incredible Hey maybe we could go to that island later and grill some shrimp Yeah that sounds amazing I really like this idea Alright so this is the last stop of our day What a wonderful day so far I thought we should try a few different chardonnays So we'll go with Belli The wine we introduced to you yesterday when were pouring drinks for our guests 100% Chardonnay Le Jacquin aged for 66 months in the cellar This is their reserve raw and unfiltered nature Gosh what a vintage This one's from 2016 Okay so here's the thing So I can definitely feel it on him More like a baked apple in the best possible sense Raw utterly raw apple pie Okay Clear Yes it reminds me of when I was a child small round apples which are dried but only gently dried Yes indeed I like that it has a certain bottle maturity It pairs slightly better with wood-fired flavors because if it were more acidic I think it might emphasize a bit too much the smokiness of the wood So wow this is great I can't wait to dive into it So the heads are delicious I start with the head I just love taking a bite out of it Oh it works That's exactly what were talking about Alright then we'll make a bit of Chardonnay from New Scotland so you know light fare and wolfil The family name as well as the town where they were raised A family business Farmers for seven generations They've been making wine since 2004 The first thing that came to mind when I put my nose to it was I thought oh wow That definitely sounds like an old-fashioned style Something from Pini or Szaszra Machej along those lines Less like Mon or something in that vein right There's far too much new oak in it Oh wow that's fantastic Honestly I'd never have tried it myself New Scotland Who would have thought Good so we have some Armond Heights Suntin Premier Cruz 2020 from Loam Vineyard We have our light Chardonnay from New Zealand We also have authentic Burgundy wine from Armond Heights Suntin I like to call them the rear rows of Burgundian wines These are the Burgundian wines that are within reach right now It offers far more than something like Pellini or Shoshana Roger Avery Just south of Suntin we have the New World release—perfect wine for me I absolutely love it On the left I love it It It's beautiful I always tell people that wine is a symbol of time Sometimes it's not just about the wine itself but about the place ot necessarily the place where the wine is grown but the place where you enjoy it with friends New friends old friends All these things are symbols of guilt and that What makes wine taste the way it does and what makes wine better in life It pairs well with other dishes shrimp and all that stuff And seriously I think it's always been about the place for me I drink wine with him and that's the substitute element during that time — that's the memory one has I wanted to thank you for the invitation as this is definitely something I'll never forget I've gained extensive experience around the world but nothing has ever been like this I want to thank you both and commend you for what you've accomplished here Best regards Thank you for coming I truly appreciate it