May 10, 2025
We're featuring Wine Educator and Event Creator Kurtis
Kolt .
Top Drop 2025, his sensational small wine fest
runs next week in Vancouver and Calgary.
Wine Educator, judge and Event Co-Ordinator Kurtis
Kolt.
His thoughts on 2025 Washington Grown/Crafted in BC
Wines
His impressive Top Drop Events this coming
week in Vancouver and Calgary.
Kurtis Kolt is a Vancouver-based wine & hospitality consultant
who writes about wine, presents seminars, hosts events, judges'
competitions, works with restaurants on their wine programs, and so
on.
Kurtis has been running restaurants around Vancouver,
eventually receiving the 'Sommelier
of the Year' award at the 2010 Vancouver International Wine
Festival.
KK is also the co-founder of Top
Drop, a series of terroir-focused trade and
consumer festival-style events, dubbed
TOP DROP In Vancouver May 13 and Calgary May
15.
Kurtis books very select wineries (and their
winemakers)
Check out the participants - https://vancouver.topdrop.ca/en/exhibitors
Dubbed “The One Wine Tasting of the Year You
Shouldn’t Miss,” by Western
Living magazine, Top
Drop Vancouver and Top
Drop Calgary‘s Main Events return with continued focus on
sustainably-farmed, handcrafted wines offering a distinct
sense of place, without heavy-handed
winemaking trickery to get in the way.
His latest project is Free
Spirit!, a celebration of the world of non-alc wine, beer, and
spirits!
Kurtis joins us on Tasting Room Radio to also talk about
the Grown in Washington - Crafted in BC 2025
Wines, now being seen on BC shelves.