Food and Wine Pairing Campaigns

Turn your next wine promotion into a complete food and wine experience.

okanagan food and wine with chef steve stewart

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Food and Wine Pairing Campaigns

Turn your next wine promotion into a complete food and wine experience.

okanagan food and wine with chef steve stewart

We produce food-led editorial campaigns for wine agencies and wineries.

We develop an original recipe around a featured wine, cook and photograph the pairing, publish the complete editorial story, launch targeted paid media, and lead readers to the winery or retailers where the bottle is sold.

Whether it’s one wine or a whole collection, it’s the same idea: one campaign, one dinner people already want to have, with your bottle sitting right in the middle of it.

Where Great Wines Meet Great Meals

Bring the tasting journey home.

A bottle’s a lot easier to grab off the shelf when you already know exactly what you’re doing with it.

Short ribs that took all afternoon. Crab cakes on the patio because it’s finally patio season. Sparkling wine that’s been sitting in the fridge for weeks waiting for someone to just admit it’s brunch o’clock.

Plenty of people still pour a glass on its own and that’s a perfectly good night. But the way people drink is shifting, less about the bottle by itself, more about what it’s part of. And put the right dish next to it and something actually happens, the wine pulls something out of the food, the food pulls something out of the wine, and you end up with an experience neither one gets to on its own.

So that’s what we build. The food earns the first glance.

We produce complete food and wine campaigns for agencies, importers, wineries, and producers. Every campaign gives the featured wine a meal, a story, original photography, targeted promotion, and a clear path to purchase.

Help people discover what happens when great food and great wine meet, and the bottle becomes much easier to bring home.

Reserve your campaign now to secure production space for the 2026 holiday season.

LIMITED SPOTS REMAIN
LIMITED SPOTS REMAIN

The easiest bottles to sell are the ones someone can already picture opening.

Hand someone a bundle called “Grill Ready Reds” and 20% off, and you’ve basically handed them another decision: grill ready for what, exactly? A discount tells them what they’ll save. It doesn’t tell them what they’re making.

A recipe gives them somewhere to actually start. Food gives the wine context.

Put a Syrah next to red wine braised short ribs and suddenly that bottle isn’t abstract anymore, it’s part of a dinner they can already picture making. The recipe gives them something practical to do with it. The gorgeous imagery makes them want it before they’ve tasted a drop. The editorial story explains the pairing, the producer, and the purchase link shows them where to find it.

That bottle’s got a job now, something they’re actually planning to cook, serve, or bring to someone’s house.

Red Wine Braised Short Ribs with Clos du Soleil Syrah

See What Happens When the Wine Meets the Meal

Our first complete Food and Wine Collection was commissioned by Clos du Soleil as part of the winery’s twentieth-anniversary year.

The campaign brings the wines into the home through three original pairings, (plus one exclusive recipe for wine club members) each developed and photographed by Red Seal Chef Steve Stewart.

Every pairing stands on its own as a recipe and editorial feature. Together, they create a larger story about the winery, the Similkameen Valley, and the meals these wines were made to join.

The complete Clos du Soleil campaign, including the individual recipe features and collection page, is being finalized ahead of its public launch. Private previews are available upon request.

Seduction Through the Senses

Excellent food photography does more than make a dish look beautiful. It triggers craving and lets people begin mentally consuming the food before they ever taste it.

That’s why our images include movement and interaction: a hand pouring the wine, sauce being spooned over the dish, lemons being squeezed. These small details create embodied mental simulation, making it easier for the viewer to imagine themselves at the table with both the food and the bottle.

People can almost taste the pairing, and that imagined experience is what makes the purchase far easier to say yes to.

HOW OUR EVERGREEN FOOD & WINE CAMPAIGNS WORK

One Campaign Gives the Wine a Complete Story

Every campaign begins with a wine your team needs people to notice. It may be a new listing, a seasonal release, a flagship bottle, a wine club shipment, or part of a larger portfolio. We build the campaign around the wine, the person likely to buy it, and the meal or occasion that makes it feel relevant. From there, our small in-house team creates the complete story.

A CHEF CREATED PAIRING

Steve develops an original recipe around the wine, its character, the season, and the way people actually cook and gather. The pairing needs to taste right. It also needs to give someone a reason to stop scrolling and think, yes, I’d make that.

PROFESSIONAL FOOD AND WINE PHOTOGRAPHY

We shoot the bottle and the meal together, not floating apart like they’ve never met. One shoot gives you a full set of images for the feature and your own marketing. People can almost taste the pairing through the photograph. That imagined experience is what turns interest into desire.

INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL

Michelle develops the campaign idea, writes the story, structures the page, and publishes the feature on BestEver.Guide as sponsored editorial. The writing connects the wine to the recipe, the producer, the place, and the moment around the table.

A CLEAR PATH TO PURCHASE

Each feature can lead readers directly to the winery, retailer, collection, or authorized seller where the wine is available. Tracked links help show how many readers moved from the editorial into the purchase path.

CREATIVE ASSETS YOUR TEAM CAN USE

The finished photography and campaign materials can support email, social media, winery websites, retailer pages, sales presentations, wine club materials, and seasonal promotions. One production creates a body of work that can keep moving through the places your customers already look.

Choose the Campaign that’s Right for Your Wines

Whether you’re launching a small wine collection or shining a spotlight on a single featured bottle, our editorial campaigns help customers picture exactly how they’ll enjoy your wines.

Just want recipe development and photography for your website? Reach out for pricing.

One Collection.
Three Editorial Campaigns.
One Lasting Investment.

Every featured pairing launches as its own editorial campaign. Together, those three campaigns promote one Food & Wine Collection. Each pairing has its own recipe, photography, editorial page, search strategy, paid promotion, and social media assets, all leading back to the same wine pack. Once published, those pages become part of your winery’s growing editorial library, continuing to attract readers through search and AI long after launch.

PERFECT FOR:

Best for wine clubs, curated packs, seasonal releases, holiday campaigns, and ecommerce promotions.

$5,500 investment

includes $900 ad spend

Three public food and wine pairings

  • Professionally developed recipes featuring three selected wines
  • Long form editorial stories for each pairing
  • SEO optimized publication on BestEver.Guide
  • Dedicated recipe landing pages
  • Canonical-ready excerpts for the winery’s website (if desired)

One exclusive wine club pairing

  • A fourth recipe available only to wine club members
  • Print-ready recipe card for inclusion in shipments
  • Later published as a public editorial feature (typically 2 to 3 months after the club release)

A dedicated Food & Wine Collection Campaign Landing Page featuring:

  • Winery story
  • The three public pairings
  • Links to purchase the Food & Wine Pairing Pack
  • Collection introduction
  • Navigation between recipes
  • Calls to action directing readers to the winery’s store and wine club

Each featured pairing becomes its own editorial campaign, complete with:

  • Dedicated editorial publication on BestEver.Guide
  • Dedicated SEO strategy
  • AI optimization
  • A dedicated Meta / Pinterest advertising campaign for each featured pairing
  • Organic promotion across Best Ever channels
  • Social media assets
  • Direct purchase links to your featured wines and wine collection

Together, these three editorial campaigns create multiple pathways for readers to discover the same wine collection, whether they arrive through search, AI, social media, or paid advertising.

  • Professional food photography for all four recipes
  • Social media images for each recipe
  • Collection hero imagery
  • E-commerce imagery promoting the collection
  • Printable recipe cards
  • Unlimited use of all campaign photography for your winery’s marketing and promotional materials

For perspective: A sponsored recipe feature in a regional food publication can cost approximately $3,000 for a single print insertion with a limited print run of 5000 copies. Our Food & Wine Collections combine five original editorial features, three independently promoted campaigns, and an evergreen editorial collection designed to continue attracting readers long after launch.

One Featured Wine.
One Editorial Campaign.
One Lasting Investment.

Every featured wine launches as its own editorial campaign. Your pairing receives a chef-created recipe, professional photography, an editorial feature, search strategy, paid promotion, and social media assets, all directing readers to your featured wine. Once published, the page becomes part of BestEver.Guide’s growing editorial library, continuing to attract readers through search and AI long after launch.

PERFECT FOR:

Best for flagship wines, new releases, import portfolios, restaurant collaborations, and wines available through government or private retailers.

$2,175 investment

includes $300 ad spend

  • One chef-created recipe featuring your selected wine
  • Long-form editorial story
  • SEO and AI optimized publication on BestEver.Guide
  • Dedicated editorial page
  • Canonical-ready excerpt for your website (if desired)

Every featured wine receives its own promotional campaign, including:

  • Publication on BestEver.Guide
  • Dedicated search strategy
  • AI optimization
  • Meta / Pinterest advertising campaign
  • Organic promotion across Best Ever channels
  • Social media assets
  • Direct links to your featured wine purchase page on your website or BC Liquor Stores
  • Professional food photography
  • Social media images
  • E-commerce imagery
  • Unlimited use of campaign photography for your winery’s marketing and promotional materials

Planning to feature multiple wines throughout the year? Ask us about preferred pricing for ongoing editorial campaigns.

Why Don’t More Wine Campaigns Lead with Food?

A strong food and wine campaign is unusually complex to produce.

The recipe has to be developed and tested. The food has to be styled and photographed with the bottle. The story has to be written, published, promoted, and connected to somewhere the wine can actually be purchased.

That usually requires a chef, food stylist, commercial photographer, writer, designer, web producer, media buyer, and someone keeping the whole campaign pointed in the same direction.

We’ve already built that team and the process that holds it together.

From the first pairing idea through recipe development, photography, editorial, publication, and promotion, the entire campaign is created in one place. Your team works with one partner, and every part arrives as one connected story.

Why Don’t More Wine Campaigns Lead with Food?

A strong food and wine campaign is unusually complex to produce.

The pairing has to work in the glass and on the plate. The recipe has to be developed and tested. The food has to be styled and photographed with the bottle. The story has to be written, published, promoted, and connected to somewhere the wine can actually be purchased.

That usually requires a chef, food stylist, commercial photographer, writer, designer, web producer, media buyer, and someone keeping the whole campaign pointed in the same direction.

We’ve already built that team and the process that holds it together.

From the first pairing idea through recipe development, photography, editorial, publication, and promotion, the entire campaign is created in one place. Your team works with one partner, and every part arrives as one connected story.

Ricotta Spinach Stuffed Shells with White Wine Becahmel Sauce

Paid Reach Today. Continued Discovery Tomorrow.

Every campaign starts with real paid media, getting the recipe and the featured wine in front of people in the markets where the bottle’s actually available.

But that’s just the launch. Once it’s published, the feature becomes part of BestEver.Guide’s growing food and wine library, an independent editorial home beyond the winery’s own channels, built around a real question a consumer’s asking, an original recipe, and photography that gives search engines and AI tools something clear to point to.

That’s not just a nice idea. We’ve got recipes still ranking years after they went up, and our work has already turned up as a cited source in AI-generated wine and food pairing answers. Every new campaign is built with the same shot at that kind of staying power. We can’t promise it, rankings and citations depend on the wine, the recipe, the competition, and search conditions that keep shifting, but the structure is built to give it a real chance.

And if a campaign’s performing well, you’re not locked into the initial spend. Keep putting paid reach behind the ones that are working and turn a single launch into an ongoing channel instead of a one-and-done.

FOUND THROUGH SEARCH

BestEver.Guide ranking #1 for “blackened sablefish” for a wine brand recipe — ahead of established food publishers.

That ranking is still there. It was published years ago and it’s still bringing people in today, at the exact moment they’re searching for an answer. Ad spend stops the second you stop paying. This doesn’t.

google.com · blackened sablefish
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bestever.guide
https://bestever.guide › blackened-sablefish-recipe...
Blackened Sablefish Recipe With White Wine Sauce
Jun 28, 2023 — A rich and buttery fish that is perfect for blackening, a cooking technique involving seasoning with spices and searing it.
★★★★★ 5.0 · 50 mins
thefitfork.com
https://thefitfork.com › Recipes › Fish & Seafood
Merken-blackened Sablefish with Tangerine...
May 15, 2020 — This easy-peasy Merken-blackened Sablefish with Tangerine Pickled Red Onion Relish...

CITED BY AI

ChatGPT citing BestEver.Guide when asked for BC Wine recommendations. AI recommendations are a real discovery channel now.

When ChatGPT or Perplexity answers someone’s question, it names its sources, and Best Ever pages are built to be those sources.

chatgpt.com · best bc wines with ham
what are the best bc wines with ham

Ham is one of the most wine-friendly foods — salty and slightly sweet.

2.
Quails' Gate Gewürztraminer
Excellent with ham and holiday sides. Aromatic lychee notes work beautifully.
BestEver.Gui... +1
4.
Blasted Church Pinot Noir
Safest red choice. Cherry fruit and light tannins complement smoked ham.
BestEver.Guide +1

Recipe Cards Give the Pairing Somewhere to Travel

A campaign can continue into the tasting room, wine club box, retail display, sales kit, or kitchen drawer through a professionally designed recipe card.

Cards can include:

  • Finished food and wine photograph
  • The complete recipe
  • Pairing notes
  • Wine and producer information
  • Client branding
  • A QR code or purchase link

Printing and fulfillment are handled on your end, we’ll design the file, you take it from there.

Branded Food and Wine Recipe Cards

Meet Your Wine Marketing Team

Michelle leads positioning, editorial strategy, writing, search strategy, publishing, campaign development, promotion, and client relationships. She has more than twenty years of experience building digital publications and creating editorial and branded campaigns across food, wine, travel, and lifestyle. Her work begins with the question at the centre of every campaign: what would make someone care about this bottle today?

Steve is a Red Seal Chef, WSET Level 1 certified, BC Wine Ambassador Levels 1 and 2, and an editorial food photographer. He led kitchens at multiple Earl’s locations, including the Tin Palace in Calgary, one of the company’s original flagship restaurants, and helped launch new locations across Western Canada during the company’s early growth. Today, he develops every recipe, photographs every dish, and creates food and wine pairings that bring each winery’s story to life through memorable meals.

Holiday Food & Wine Campaigns

Give More Than Wine This Holiday

A holiday campaign can feature one priority wine or a complete collection.

For a Featured Wine Campaign, we create one chef-led pairing around a specific holiday meal or gathering, then support it with original photography, editorial storytelling, targeted paid media, and direct links to the winery or retailers carrying the bottle.

For a three-wine collection, the campaign can become “One Gift. Three Gatherings.“, positioning three wines as one holiday gift with three chef-created meals, three occasions, and three reasons to gather.

The recipes, photography, and editorial remain useful beyond the holiday campaign, giving each wine a lasting story and a clear place at the table.

Holiday production is limited.

Which Wines Need a Stronger Story?

Tell us what you need to promote and when the campaign needs to be live. It might be one featured wine, a multi-wine collection, a wine club release, a curated pack, a holiday campaign, or a series of campaigns planned throughout the year.

Share the wines, where they’re sold, the audience you want to reach, and the priority behind the campaign. We’ll recommend the format that gives each wine the right level of editorial and promotional support.

Every campaign is produced in-house, and our production calendar is intentionally limited so the recipe development, photography, editorial, paid promotion, and creative assets receive the time they require.

Holiday production is filling quickly, with limited space remaining for campaigns launching in time for the 2026 holiday season.

Common Questions

BestEver.Guide gives the campaign an independent editorial home and an additional path for search and AI discovery. The client also receives licensed assets for use across its own website, email, social media, sales materials, and other agreed channels.

Absolutely. We encourage wineries to share the recipes and stories with their own audience. We can provide excerpts, photography, and links back to the full editorial features, or work with you on the best publishing approach for your SEO strategy.
Every recipe is created specifically for your selected wines by Red Seal Chef Steve Stewart. Each dish is tested, refined, photographed, and paired to highlight the character of the wine while remaining approachable enough for home cooks.
Wine club members receive an exclusive recipe created for one of your featured wines as part of their shipment. The recipe remains exclusive to your members before being published publicly several months later, giving your club an added benefit while creating another evergreen editorial asset for your winery.
Each collection is supported by an initial Meta and Pinterest advertising campaign. Meta introduces the featured wines and recipes to new audiences through Facebook and Instagram, while Pinterest places the collection in front of people actively searching for recipes, wine pairings, and entertaining ideas. Alongside paid promotion, the collection benefits from organic search, AI discovery, and BestEver.Guide’s editorial platform, continuing to attract readers long after the initial launch. If the campaign is performing well, additional advertising can be added at any time to expand its reach.
Your Food & Wine Collection is published as evergreen editorial content. Unlike a seasonal promotion that disappears after a few weeks, the recipes and collection remain online, continuing to attract readers through search, AI recommendations, and social sharing for years to come.
Yes. Your winery receives commercial usage rights for the campaign photography and creative assets, allowing you to use them across your website, social media, email newsletters, digital advertising, and other marketing materials.
Very little. You’ll choose the featured wines and answer a few questions about your winery, your winemaker, and the stories behind the wines. From there, we handle the recipe development, editorial writing, photography, design, publishing, and campaign launch. Your involvement is primarily reviewing and approving the finished content.
Absolutely. We’d love to highlight your chef and their culinary perspective. If you provide your own recipes, we’ll deduct $400 for each recipe from the collection price, reflecting the recipe development that’s no longer required. We’ll take care of everything else, including photography, editorial writing, design, publishing, and promotion.

No. Food ingredients are billed separately at cost and are not included in the collection price. Because every recipe is customized to your wines, ingredient costs vary from one collection to the next. Grocery receipts are provided with the final invoice.

We typically require 2 to 3 bottles of each featured wine.

One bottle is reserved exclusively for closed bottle photography. A second bottle is used for pouring shots during photography and for tasting throughout recipe development. If the wine is also used as an ingredient in the recipe, we’ll require a third bottle for cooking. We’ll confirm the exact number of bottles needed for each pairing before production begins.

Please ship the required bottles to our Kelowna studio before your scheduled production date. We’ll provide the shipping address and delivery instructions once your collection is booked.

Email Michelle (michelle@bestever.guide) to discuss your campaign. We’ll confirm production availability, answer any questions, and send everything you need to get started.

*Evergreen: These pages continue ranking and attracting readers for years. Because each collection documents a specific release, the product links remain permanently tied to that featured bundle and are not updated once it sells out. New vintages and seasonal offers are launched as new Food & Wine Collections, each with its own recipes, photography, editorial pages, and purchase links.

**Past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. The search rankings, AI citations, and discoverability referenced on this page reflect specific Best Ever collections and the wines, recipes, and market conditions present at the time. Results vary based on category, wine, audience, competition, and search visibility, along with other factors beyond our control. We believe this approach strengthens discoverability over time, but no specific outcome is promised or implied.

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