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I hazard to guess how many wines I tasted over the past year, but every year I find several gems that I pass along to you as I taste them. Getting ready for the holiday season, you may be considering buying wines to take to parties, or serving wines at your parties. What to buy? Here is a list of…
From the Fall through Spring, the Import Vintners & Spirits Association (IVSA) hosts a regular tasting of importers latest wines, beer and spirits. The kick-off for the fall was last week, and it was very busy. Again too many wines to try, so I went table by table trying to find wines of interest, or completely new wines/wineries I have…
I was happy to be invited for the second year in a row to the Select Wines & Spirits’ Annual Portfolio Tasting, held at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. Last year I found several gems that I passed along to you, and you will read about my latest wine recommendations. You may want to compare to my last year’s…
As part of my wine tasting activities at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, I interviewed several winery principals. For this first video I talk with Ms. Lucia Romero from El Porvenir de los Andes, from the Salta region of Argentina. This region is well known for their Torrontes wines. Enjoy!
There were more wineries than those from Chile at the 2012 Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. It took a while to drag me away from the Chilean wineries, and to try the wines from the rest of the world attending the Festival. There were many nice wines, and now it’s my time to share them with you. Red Wines (and…
Have you thought about travelling to Chile and Argentina, to try their wonderful wines, see the beautiful Andes Mountains, sample their cuisine, but not know how to arrange it all? Why not sign up to attend the FREE MyWinePal seminar on Feb 23 to taste some South American wines and learn about an upcoming Wine Experience tour to Chile and…
January 23, 2012, arrived full of promise, dragon-sized. With that in mind, I checked out the New Product Salon for the Import Vintners & Spirits Association (IVSA) in downtown Vancouver. There was a wide range of wines; sparkling, still, red, white, and fortified. A few stars from the tasting that I would like to share with you. Italian Prosecco…
Have you ever wanted to go to Argentina, watch a live tango show, visit the Iguazu Falls (remember the movie “The Mission”?), walk the vineyards in Mendoza, eat an Argentinean style barbeque (asado), and enjoy a big Malbec with your asado? I’ve been to Argentina, and had a chance to do many of these things. Argentina is a big, beautiful…
What is a Portfolio Tasting? If you have never been before, it is a wine tasting held by a wine agent of all, or many of, the wines that they represent. It is a great place to taste many different wines, typically from different countries, and learn a bit about the style of wines that they carry. Are they focused…
In my previous article about preparing for your Summer Wine Trip in the Southern Hemisphere, I outlined most of the wine producing countries and some airline ticket prices from Canada to those countries. This is Part 2 of this article, where you will get to know a bit about the signature grapes of Chile and Argentina and a few (not…
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