Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
I can’t keep hushed for long. It is beautiful summer weather and it is time for us to get out onto our patio and enjoy ourselves and air our Dirty Laundry wines. I received several bottles of Dirty Laundry’s latest wines to taste. The first two are their Hush blends. Dirty Laundry Vineyard is located in Summerland, BC and love…
Would you like to help the BC Hospitality Foundation, who helps hospitality workers facing financial crisis due to a health condition? Why not buy these two wines from Coolshanagh Wines on the north end of the Naramata Bench? $10 per case of these wines sold from now till the end of May go to the BCHF. Coolshanagh’s vineyard was…
This week I participated in a virtual Trade Tasting with various media and Blue Grouse Estate Winery‘s owner Paul Brunner and winemaker Bailey Williamson. Paul gave us a brief intro to the geological history of Vancouver Island and the specifics of the soils at their Estate. There was also a discussion of the three vineyard areas, the soils, the grapes…
In honour of Victoria Day, you may want to enjoy a bottle of wine made in Victoria (BC) or in the defined Victoria region. There are 14 wineries in or around Victoria, BC. Do you know which wineries? They are: Deep Cove Winery Church & State Wines Rocky Creek Winery Devine Distillery & Winery Averill Creek Unsworth Vineyards Blue Grouse…
I attended online Part II of the BC Virtual 2019 Vintage Preview which welcomed winemakers from the Similkameen Valley, South Okanagan Valley (Golden Mile Bench) and BC’s new Sub-GI, Naramata Bench. It was interesting to hear the differences and similarities between the cooler regions in BC and the warmer regions. We again had Barbara Philip, MW as our moderator, and…
With these challenging times, it is good to be able to take some time to be grateful for those people around us and the country we live in. I am grateful that all my family and friends are symptom-free and are staying safe in their homes. I am grateful that I am able to work at home to educate my…
Has the thought of cooking duck confit from scratch intimidated you? Well, no more as Provence Marinaside has the confit made for you and the other ingredients that you need to make an awesome dinner from a kit. They as well are offering a BC wine pairing, Averill Creek Somenos Series Pinot Noir 2016, which I wholeheartedly agree with. I…
Spring has sprung, and hopefully, we will have a chance to enjoy it on our patios, 2m away from everyone else. I recently received three bottles of newly released wines from SpearHead Winery in Kelowna to kick-off Spring that will make self-isolation feel not too bad. Let me tell you about these three wines from the new 2019 vintage. About…
I was very busy at the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020. There were lots of terrific wines from France and around the world, plus the dinners, seminars, and Masterclasses were top notch. I worked very hard making tasting notes, interviewing winery principals, and trying to learn more about wine so that I can educate you as well. Below is a…
Making a white Pinot Noir wine in BC has become popular over the last three years. I had a chance to try Okanagan Crush Pad’s free form Vin Gris 2017. The Pinot Noir grapes come from a certified organic vineyard in Summerland. Matt Dumayne made this wine. The grapes were whole-cluster pressed to small concrete eggs, where they fermented using…
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