Jonathan Welsh turns TV series to wine

First-time co-executive producer/cocreator and host Jonathan Welsh (e.n.g.) and cocreator/co-executive producer Alan Aylward of Forevergreen Productions will be at Banff promoting the first 13 half-hour episodes of The New World Wine Tour in an unusual way.

Three delegate names will be drawn to win one of three Niagara wine collections including their famous Icewine. To enter, leave your business card at the message center to the attention of Forevergreen. The draw will take place on Thursday, June 22.

The new series, described as candid, casual and whimsical, will use humor to challenge the conventional pretensions about wine. Topics to be explored include the cultural context of wine and its marriage to cuisine. The New World Wine Tour was shot entirely on location in the Niagara Peninsula, one of the world’s youngest and most promising wine regions.