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California is one of the great wine regions of the world, in part due to the excellent climate and soils, and in part due to the willingness to experiment with different grape varieties and methods to produce the best quality wine. At this year’s Vancouver International Wine Festival I had an opportunity to speak with many California principals and winemakers,…
The Vancouver International Wine Festival has come and gone, but memories of the event still run through my head. One event that I think about was the Chateau Olivier dinner at Le Gavroche downtown. If you have not been to Le Gavroche, it is a small 2 story building located at 1616 Alberni St. It has that small restaurant charm. I…
Part of the Vancouver International Wine Festival are seminars; Seminars to make you more informed about wine. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Chateau St Jean Cinq Cepages Vertical tasting seminar. And now, you can share in some of my knowledge. What is Cinq Cepages? Cinq Cepages is a blend of five Bordeaux red varietals and is the…
It is not often that you can enjoy a magnum of wine, unless you are having a celebration like a birthday party, wedding, etc. At the Taste of Tulalip, we did have the Celebration Dinner on the Friday night, so on Saturday we were treated to keep celebrating with some wonderful magnums of wine from around the world. Last year…
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…
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…
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