Category: cheese

One of the joys of traveling is trying wine and beer that are not available back home.  Over the last 2 weeks I had the chance to visit Spain and the Netherlands.  While in Amsterdam I decided to try some Belgian beers.  My only requirement is that I did not taste them before.  I randomly picked these 3 beers: Maredsous…

This was my first wine maker dinner with the Australian Wine Appreciation Society.  Held at the Fish House in Stanley Park, Mr. Bruce Tyrrell from Tyrrell’s Wines regaled us with stories of his family’s past and about the wines we were about to enjoy that evening. Although the Tyrrell family established themselves in Australia in 1858, it wasn’t until the…

What do you know about the Lombardy region of Italy?  Not much probably.  Neither did I until I attended an Italian Chamber of Commerce lunch today in downtown Vancouver. This region of Northern Italy is well known for cheese, charcuterie, wines, fresh produce and olive oil. Lombardy is also very well known for their cultivation of rice, which leads to…