The British Columbia Wine Institute welcomed me and a room full of other revelers to the “BC Paired: Indulge Your Senses!” during the Vancouver International Wine Festival. This event was a celebration of BC wines, red, white, sparkling and fortified, paired together…
Category: VQA
My Top 10 Wine and Food Posts for 2012
I use WordPress for MyWinePal.com and MyWinePal.wordpress.com. Yes I have 2 blogs. Sometimes I think it is double the effort, but other times I think that I like the separation of the two blogs. In MyWinePal.com I post my longer…
Some Amazing Wine Finds at Colour BC VQA Fall Release
BC wines are continuing to make strides around the world. Last year BC wineries won more than 2000 medals in national and international competition according to the BC Wine Institute. BC has over 208 wineries today. We grow over 75…
Harmony at Summerhill Wines with Ezra Cipes
When you talk with visitors to the Okanagan, most will say they want to visit Summerhill Winery and see their pyramid, where they partially age all their wines. Some may say they also want to visit because it uses biodynamic farming…
Eighth Annual ChefmeetsBCGrape Celebrates Regionality with BC Food Designed for BC Wine
Have you ever attended ChefmeetsBCGrape before? It is a great event where you get to try BC VQA wines, and wonderful food produced by top BC chefs. The dishes prepared are from Ocean Wise partner restaurants, which is good IMHO…
Tasting the Latest Wine Releases from SpierHead Winery
I first met Bill Knutson, Proprietor of SpierHead Winery during the Spring VQA wine release in Vancouver. We talked about their wines and Bill promised to send me a bottle of the new wines that would soon be released. Fast…
Okanagan Crush Pad: The Taste Test
In my earlier post, Growing Wineries with Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP), I introduced you to the vineyard management, wine making skills, and the growing list of new wineries making use of OCP. In this second part of this article, I…
Bloom YVR – The BC VQA Spring Release Tasting #BloomYVR
This past week was very busy with wine events, but one event that I made sure to attend was the Bloom Vancouver, BC VQA Spring Release Tasting. This was a Trade only event, so people like media, restaurant owners, sommeliers,…
Naramata on the River – The Latest Vintages Release Reviewed
The New West Quay, overlooking the Fraser River, was the venue for the latest Naramata Bench wine release in the Vancouver area. The number of wineries has increased each year that I have attended this event. I did not count,…
Welcoming our BC VQA Wines – Fall Release
I’ve been told that over the past two decades, the Wines of British Columbia have truly come of age. Wines are produced in the Okanagan, the Similkameen, the Fraser Valley, the Gulf Islands and on Vancouver Island. Cool climate to…