It is the Easter weekend for many people around the world, and besides the religious celebrations, enjoying meals with family and friends is also a big part. The BC VQA Spring wine release kicked off this week, but the wines…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…