Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
It is always a special time when a wine agency opens their portfolio of wines for you to taste, review, and recommend. This past week I had a chance to try the wines from Select Wines’ annual portfolio tasting. With any tasting of this magnitude there will always be more wines than time to taste them. I try my best…
Chianti Classico is a region in Tuscany between Florence and Siena in Italy, which produces wonderful red wines from the Sangiovese grapes, sometimes combined with other indigenous or international varieties. To be “Chianti Classico” the blend must be at least 80% Sangiovese. Canada does it’s share of enjoying Chianti Classico, importing 10% of Chianti Classico wine sales worldwide in 2014….
Valentine’s Day is around the corner. For those that have a spouse, significant other, or boyfriend/girlfriend, there may be some pressure to have a special celebration that day. It was suggested to me by a PR company in Vancouver that having a nice, light Italian meal with a bottle of Chianti might fit the bill. They supplied me with the…
John Clerides and Leah Bickford from Marquis Wine Cellars have been traveling through Italy’s wine producing regions in search of unique, hand sourced wines to offer their customers. After two years of extensive research, they are proud to announce 25 new to British Columbia, exclusive partners from Italy, and the wines will be arriving in their store on December 1,…
