Month: June 2013

Villa Maria Estate is a well-known producer of quality wines from New Zealand.  I look forward to trying their new vintages each year.  Recently I received a bottle of their Villa Maria Private Bin East Coast Pinot Gris 2012 to sample.  This wine has won the “Pure Gold” award at Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2012.  While many of us…

Wine is more than just wine.  It is an experience and each wine should hopefully tell you a story about it’s journey from a blossom to a grape to a bottle of wine.  As it is an experience, I think the best ways to enjoy wines are through experiences.  Here are 4 experiences that I recommend: Visit a wine region…

Chile is a fascinating country, with climate and terrain that vary from the Atacama desert in the north to glaciers in Patagonia to the south, and everything in between!  From Wikipedia I learned that by surface 80% of South America’s glaciers lie in Chile.  Then there are the Andes Mountains, which controls/modifies the weather coming in from the Pacific Ocean.  With…

Recently I received an invitation to experience the food, wine, and music of Vancouver FanClub in downtown Vancouver.  Loving all three things, I readily accepted.  My guest attending with me was Dianne Chow, who is well known in the tweeting and blogging sphere here in Vancouver.  Walking into Vancouver FanClub, I was transported to New Orleans, with the interior brick…