Tag: Maestoso

MyWinePal Top 5 Star Wines

MyWinePal Top 5 Star Rated Wines for 2016

 mywinepal  December 26, 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 and minerality in a red wine, or something else. Something that made the wine stand above the other wines.  Could…

LaStella wines in glasses at an angle

Buono! Two Verticals from LaStella Winery

 mywinepal  June 26, 2016

Time flies.  It does not seem to go in a linear fashion.  Things that have happened long ago, seem like yesterday.  Time compresses to me, the further things have happened in the past.  One such point to note is that the LaStella Winery in the Okanagan started in 2006; 10 years ago.  Yet to me, building my relationship with this…

LaStella Wines from Fortissimo to Maestoso Reviewed

 mywinepal  May 4, 2014

LaStella Winery, located in the South Okanagan, tries to bring Italian style to the wines they produce.  They do this in part through the use of Italian grapes, such as Sangiovese, and through using the production methods undertaken in Italy.  Besides their love of Italy, and bringing it here to BC, they also look to the environment trying to produce…

The Latest Releases from Le Vieux Pin and La Stella Wineries

 mywinepal  May 11, 2013

With every season, there is either grape growing, harvesting, vinification, aging, or bottling of wine. Recently I was happy to do some tasting in Vancouver of recently bottled wines from Le Vieux Pin and La Stella wineries.  These two wineries from South Okanagan offer different styles of wines; Le Vieux Pin being produced in a more restrained French style, while…