by mywinepal • • Comments Off on 9 White and 10 Red Wines You Should Try From the Colour BC VQA Fall Release Tasting
BC VQA wines are released twice a year; once in the Fall and then in the Spring. The Fall wines tend to show more white wines, as well as Pinot Noir, while the Spring event has more red wines. This…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on 9 Wines You Should Try at the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2017
Do you know how many wines will be presented at the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2017 Tasting Room? Around 800. Picking wines you really would like to try in your 3 hours of wine tasting would be like finding a needle…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on MyWinePal Top 5 Star Rated Wines for 2016
This past year I tasted a tremendous number of wines from around the world, but some wines really resonated with me. It may have been the great balance of fruit, sugar, acidity for a white wine, or the fruit, tannins…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Celebrating the Bounty of New Wines from Burrowing Owl
With the Fall harvest safely in and the rains now freely flowing, it is time to celebrate the bounty of wines that are coming out this Fall. Burrowing Owl has released their latest flight of wines to the public, covering…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on The Latest BC VQA Wines for You to Enjoy in 2016
I love to support our BC wineries. I watched over the many years as the number of wineries has grown as well as the quality improved. Wine critics from here as well as around the world, have tasted our wines,…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on 2nd Round of BC Pinot Noir Wines Reviewed
As you can see below, Sam @Sam_WineTeacher and I have been busy tasting more of the BC Pinot Noirs that have been graciously donated by our BC wineries. We should have one more lot of wines to review and write about in…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on BC Pinot Noir Review: Our Samples for the Review
Since I published my initial article, How Does BC Pinot Noir Express Terroir?, I have been receiving bottles of BC Pinot Noir from the 2013 and 2014 vintages, with a few from 2012. The wineries who has graciously provided me…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Burrowing Owl White and Red Wines For Your Pleasure
Burrowing Owl Estate Winery is one of the wineries from BC that both locals and visitors to our province know about. I had guests once from New York state want to try Burrowing Owl wine. Burrowing Owl has been a…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Some Last Minute BC Wines for Thanksgiving
I first posted this article 2 years ago, and the styles of wines that I described then, still hold for your turkey or ham Thanksgiving dinner this year. The wine vintages from the wineries below will have changed, but these…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on A Few Wine Suggestions for Easter Holidays
Easter is a big holiday for many of us, where we get together with family and enjoy a big dinner. Easter is also leading us into Spring. Flowers are already blooming here in Vancouver, and I’m sure it will come…