Tag: pinot gris

Summer is winding down, unfortunately. But sparkling wine can be enjoyed year round.  It does feel nicer though when you are outside on your patio enjoying sparkling wine with family or friends.  Here are two tasty sparkling wines from Church & State Wines, located on Vancouver Island. My Tasting Notes Church & State Wines Sparkling Pinot Gris 2017 (BC $25.29)…

I have been telling all my readers about the quality of wines coming from Kamloops.  The 2020 All Canadian Wine Championships just announced their winners, and Kamloops wineries have brought in more medals.  Here is the press release from the Kamloops Winery Association.  If you check through my latest articles, you will find many of these wines with my reviews…

I have been fortunate to receive the latest Rosé and Pinot Gris wines from Harper’s Trail Estate Winery in Kamloops. Tasting them, I can say that they are made for summer drinking. If you need some place to visit in BC during COVID-19, why not drive up to Kamloops?  You can visit Harper’s Trail, Privato, Monte Creek Ranch, and Sagewood…

The first two wines from 50th Parallel Estates Winery for me to taste are aromatic whites that you would find in the Alsace region of France, but of course these wines are located in Lake Country.  The two wines I am tasting are their Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer 2019. Where is Lake Country? You may not be familiar with the…

I have been a fan of Mt. Boucherie Estate Winery since it first opened and I visited the Okanagan many years ago. I still have a bottle of their 2003 Summit Reserve Semillon that they made once made. They have vineyards both in West Kelowna and also further south in the Similkameen Valley  The grapes for the Pinot Gris come…

On my recent trip to Kamloops I stopped at Harper’s Trail, Monte Creek Ranch, and Privato Vineyard and Winery.  At Privato I was able to spend a few quick minutes to try the latest releases of wines with their host Kristin.  I tasted through several of their wines with Kristin last August.  This time I tasted their 2019 Rose, Gewurztraminer,…

Are you seeing the forest or the trees? An airliner or a bird’s eye view? General or more specific? That is what I wondered as I tasted these two bottles of Pinot Gris by Okanagan Crush Pad’s Haywire Wines from Summerland, BC. that were sent to me to review. The first wine, Haywire Pinot Gris 2019, has grapes sourced from…

I can’t keep hushed for long.  It is beautiful summer weather and it is time for us to get out onto our patio and enjoy ourselves and air our Dirty Laundry wines.  I received several bottles of Dirty Laundry’s latest wines to taste.  The first two are their Hush blends.  Dirty Laundry Vineyard is located in Summerland, BC and love…

This week I participated in a virtual Trade Tasting with various media and Blue Grouse Estate Winery‘s owner Paul Brunner and winemaker Bailey Williamson.  Paul gave us a brief intro to the geological history of Vancouver Island and the specifics of the soils at their Estate.  There was also a discussion of the three vineyard areas, the soils, the grapes…

In honour of Victoria Day, you may want to enjoy a bottle of wine made in Victoria (BC) or in the defined Victoria region.  There are 14 wineries in or around Victoria, BC.  Do you know which wineries?  They are: Deep Cove Winery Church & State Wines Rocky Creek Winery Devine Distillery & Winery Averill Creek Unsworth Vineyards Blue Grouse…