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Recently I received two new red wines from Spierhead Winery; Vanguard 2010, and Pursuit 2010. If you have not heard of Spierhead before, they are a relatively new winery, located in Kelowna, BC. They were named BEST NEW WINERY at the 2012 B.C. Wine Awards. The first wines I tried from Spierhead was a Pinot Noir and a Riesling (Read my tasting notes…
This is my second year at the Taste of Tulalip. Last year I was getting my feet wet, trying to learn the ropes. Here is the link to my Celebration Dinner notes last year. This year, I came prepared with a plan, and how to pace myself. The Taste of Tulalip starts off with the Friday evening Celebration Dinner, where…
We have just a little over one month away before we are with family and friends, enjoying dinners, gifts, and of course celebratory wine. And when we think of wines for celebrations, we think “bubbles”. For some of you it may be Champagne, but there are many other sparkling wines, such as Cava, Prosecco, and Cremant. I recently had a…
Looking back at the World Wars, I think about how many of our veterans are left. So many sacrificed their lives for us. And there are so few now. I hope we can keep carrying our torch for them. The wineries in France helped in the World Wars. The tunnels beneath the cities of Reims and Epernay in the Champagne region…
I sat up at attention when this email message showed up. Oyosoos Larose produces very high quality red Bordeaux blends in the South Okanagan. Wine maker, Pascal Madevon‘s top wine being the “Le Grand Vin” and then a second tier, but also very tasty, “Pétales d’ Osoyoos Larose“. I have met Pascal many times at wine tasting events and he…
Tuesday evening, the rain fell, but it could not dampen my spirits as I entered The Flying Pig Restaurant in Yaletown to taste the wines from Ravenswood Winery, listen to winemaker Joel Peterson, and enjoy the entrees prepared to pair with the wines. Ravenswood’s motto is “No Wimpy Wines” and I may add that this could also apply to the…
I’m so excited because tomorrow I will be attending a media dinner to try a flight of wines by Ravenswood Winery wine maker Joel Peterson at the Flying Pig in Yaletown. The wines I will be sampling, and tweeting live to you will be: Ravenswood VB Chardonnay 2010 Ravenswood VB Zinfandel 2009 Sangiacomo Chardonnay Lodi Zinfandel 2009 Sonoma Zinfandel County…
Le Parisien opened in April 2012 on Denman Street in the West End of downtown Vancouver. The younger sister to Bistro Pastis in Kitsilano, voted the Best Bistro at the Vancouver Magazine Awards. With this media dinner at Le Parisien, I am sure that Le Parisien will be winning many awards soon. Both restaurants are owned by French Chevalier de…
By day you would think coffee shop, but by night a wine bar. The new Take Five Cafe on 62 W. Cordoba, in Gastown offers both to their customers. I was invited to attend their grand opening this past week to see what they have to offer, and there is quite a range for you. As I mentioned there is…
Yesterday Le Vieux Pin and sister winery, La Stella, opened their doors to select wine and food media in Vancouver to taste some of their newly released wines. There were 2 wines in particular that I concentrated on with notes, but there were also some nice Rhone style white blends that I would like to also describe to you. La…
