The story:
Though technically I guess it's not a winery in the specific grape driven sense, Blue Moon are producing quality fruit-wines in Courtenay, so I decided to include it. I'm also a fan of their entire enterprise, which helps.
Blue moon is a three prong entity which encompasses Nature's Way Farm, Tria Culinary studio, and Blue Moon fruit winery. The people who work here couldn't be more awesome, and were so welcoming it was almost excessive. After a little bit of talking, they let us wander the farm and hang about, before inviting us into the culinary studio to slice up some geoduck and munch away. The owners, Marla and George, were friendly as could be and Marla chatted with us for what must have been a sound half hour before we realized we weren't going to get anything else done if we stayed there all day. I also met George and Kathy, the chef, at the farmer's market again the next day. And the day after that we saw Kathy yet again at the shellfish festival. Clearly a busy group of people doing things they love. I was impressed.
The wines:
We had the opportunity to try their entire line of fruit wines. This encompasses five wines, the first of blueberries, which is an all-estate grown crop and has been given the name "dusk". Its a nice wine that I feel would go great with venison and, unsurprisingly, blueberry sauce.
The second wine was soleil, which is an interesting apple wine. I've had ciders, apple beers, apple mead, and calvados, but I'm pretty sure this is my first apple wine. It was strange to me, but I feel it would be amazing with champagne.
The third wine was called midnight, and is comprised of blackberries. Surprisingly none of the wines were over-sweet, and no wines were over the top fruity.
The next two were port style wines, one of pure blackberry and one of a mix between blueberry and blackberry. They were both really nice cheese and dessert wines, and made a nice end to the tasting.
Overall: A great experience, good wines, and amazing company. I hope this winery does really well in the future and continues to push its marriage of farm, wine an food.
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