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Do you look for vegan wines? They are becoming more common. I have two vegan-friendly wines for you from Yalumba in Australia. I tasted their Yalumba Organic Shiraz 2019 and Yalumba The Y Series Viognier 2020. Both are single varietal wines, but sometimes you do see these grapes co-fermented. The Shiraz, besides being vegan-friendly, is also organic. A year ago…
Monte Creek Ranch Winery, located just east of Kamloops, is one of our emerging regions wineries. They have put out a few vintages already. The 2016 vintage started with their earliest bud-break yet and a warm spring. A rainy June and July slowed the growth of the grapes, but still harvest began early. Two weeks early, on August 22. The…
Wine grapes from two different vineyards plus native yeasts from each vineyard, produces two unique wines. The winery in question is Haywire and the wines were made at Okanagan Crush Pad, in Summerland, BC. The two wines I tasted from Haywire were: Haywire Switchback Vineyard Pinot Gris 2012 Haywire Canyonview Vineyard Chardonnay 2013 The Switchback Vineyard was the first vineyard…
Haywire Canyonview Chardonnay 2012 is quite different from any other Okanagan Chardonnay that I can remember tasting. I had to nose it and taste it several times. What was it that this wine in the glass was telling me? The aromas straight from the bottle were quite wild and different. But before I go on to provide you with my…
