Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
I love to support our BC wineries. I watched over the many years as the number of wineries has grown as well as the quality improved. Wine critics from here as well as around the world, have tasted our wines, celebrated the quality, and told others. Now you can find BC wines around the world, from Hong Kong to London….
SpierHead Winery is one of the most consistent quality wine producers I know in the Okanagan. I am always impressed with their Pinot Noir and white wines. I recently received their 2015 vintage of Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, and Riesling wines. All 3 wines knocked my socks off. Such great quality, and fresh BC fruit flavours. Just open and pour. No…
It’s time to stock up your wine cellar for the upcoming monsoon season here in Vancouver. One winery you may want to consider is Liquidity Wines from Okanagan Falls. They recently released their 2014 vintage. Below is a press release from them. Enjoy! ~~~ Liquidity Wines is pleased to announce the release of its new wines for the summer, including…
When you want to go out for an upscale dinner where do you go? Probably downtown Vancouver; maybe West Vancouver; or North Granville. What about Burnaby? There are not too many restaurants I can think of in Burnaby that I would categorize as a place for a special dinner. One of the Burnaby restaurants that you may want to consider…
Two points that you may not have thought of, but have experienced: When you go to a restaurant, the bottles of wine are not decanted ahead of time, so you taste the wine as it is just opened. You go to a Chinese restaurant but are unsure of which wines to pair with the cuisine. You opt for tea. The…
What flavours and aromas can be attributed to the Pinot Noir grape, what are not? The next step in the BC Pinot Noir Review is to build a database that contains the aromas and flavours I detected in each wine through the tasting notes, but I need to separate out the aromas and flavours that are not from the Pinot Noir grape. What…
The last drops of BC Pinot Noir have crossed my lips, and their wine story has passed to my fingers then notes on paper, and finally this digital review for you. It has been quite an interesting experience to try all these BC Pinot Noirs, noting all the different flavours and aromas. Of course there are common flavours and aromas, but…
As you can see below, Sam @Sam_WineTeacher and I have been busy tasting more of the BC Pinot Noirs that have been graciously donated by our BC wineries. We should have one more lot of wines to review and write about in a following article, after which the analysis of the wines’ aroma and flavour characteristics, and its association with soil and…
Progress is well underway in the BC Pinot Noir Review, although you may not see things happening. Working diligently, I have been tasting and writing detailed notes on the BC Pinot Noirs you see below, and many more to come. In addition, I am tasting many of these wines with Sam Hauck, @Sam_WineTeacher on Twitter, who belongs to the BC Guild…
The latest releases from BC’s VQA wineries is out, and I’m sure you are wondering which wines would be great on the patio this summer. Here are 10, mostly white, wines for you to enjoy: Baillie-Grohman Estate Winery Recolte Blanche 2015 – A blend of Pinot Pris, Schoenburger, Kerner and Gewürztraminer. Very aromatic with sweet spices, lychee and stone fruit aromas. Off-dry,…
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