by mywinepal • • Comments Off on BC Wine Makers Harvest 2022 Interview
The 2022 harvest is the first after COVID restrictions have been lifted. I am sure that lifting COVID restrictions was appreciated by BC wineries. We had a cool start to the growing season, followed by mere mm of rain between…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Fort Berens Estate Winery #3 Small Winery in Canada
I’ve been telling my readers about Lillooet and Fort Berens Estate Winery for many years. Excellent wines. Now they have a new batch of awards from WineAlign’s latest competition. Here is the press release from Fort Berens. Go out and…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on The BC Wine Industry Welcomes Six New Sub-GIs
In BC we relatively quickly learned that cooler climate grapes, like Riesling, did better in the north Okanagan, and warmer climate grapes, like Syrah, did better in the south Okanagan. Similarly cooler climate grape varieties in the Fraser Valley and…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on BC Wine Makers Harvest 2021 Interview – 2nd COVID Edition
The 2021 harvest will surely be marked in our minds as COVID continues. Plus during the summer there were major fires in BC, and now with the heavy rains and flooding, I’m sure the weather has had an impact on…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Getting Back to Our First BC Trade Wine Tasting Event During COVID – My Selections
It was about 18 months ago since I, and other wine trade people, were able to get together and taste BC wines. We all arrived wearing masks. Some of us with different haircuts, glasses, etc., so you may have to…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on A Virtual Preview of the BC 2020 Vintage with 3 Winemakers
In November 2020, I interviewed a few BC winemakers about their current harvest. From their discussions, I determined that overall the growing season was average, but there was a cooler rainy spring. August and September had good weather. Harvest started…