Cheers! Raising a Glass to European Roots in Alberta

May 28, 2020

An Edmonton wine importer’s approach to bringing centuries of winemaking heritage home to Alberta.

Many wine connoisseurs in Alberta have undoubtedly sipped from a bottle that was carefully selected by an importer who takes very seriously the relationship vineyard growers have with the earth and with history.

Enotri Wine Marketing founder Eberhard Tamm has travelled the wine producing world, including Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. He searches high and low for vineyards that hold similar philosophies to his “Roots Matter” credo that takes the land and its heritage to heart. Enotri Wine Marketing looks for vineyards and wineries that have a centuries-long lineage of grape-growing and winemaking.

The wine importer chooses those that have a deep respect for the soil and nature and whose owners live on the land surrounded by the vines they tend.

He searches high and low for vineyards that hold similar philosophies to his “Roots Matter” credo that takes the land and its heritage to heart.

Tamm finds the best vineyards and then brings their wine and their stories home to Alberta restaurants and liquor stores. He often spends hours and days with the people who work the land learning their stories and the history of the wine. It is said that opening a bottle of wine with Tamm is like opening a portal to a place where Europe comes alive in Alberta.

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