Have you ever wondered what are the most widely planted vitis vinifera grapes in BC, or how about how many wineries we now have? The new 2019 B.C. Wine Grape Acreage Report is out and provides us with an update…
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate…
Provence Marinaside continues to offer amazing dinners in Yaletown through their Monthly Wine Menu series, with December featuring Mission Hill Family Estate Winery’s top quality Perpetua and Oculus wines. This is a very rare occasion to taste these two wines…
In BC we love to celebrate the success of our wineries both locally and abroad. Monte Creek Winery in Kamloops is one winery in our newer wine regions, the Thompson Valley, that is having success and would like to share…
Spearhead Winery produces very nice Pinot Noir wines that I have had the pleasure of reviewing over many years. I received a bottle of their latest release the Spearhead Pinot Noir Cuvée 2018 to review. They used Pinot Noir clones…
It’s Fall now. We can’t hide from it, so time to embrace it with red wines. I’m tasting Church & State Wines, Cabernet Franc and Merlot 2017, with the grapes coming from the Okanagan Valley. 2017 had a hot summer…
Why 2 Reviews of 4 Wines? I received a shipment of wines from Gold Hill Winery in Oliver, BC, over the summer and I’ve been tasting them two wines at a time and writing my tasting notes for you. Twice…
Here are two more white Rhone Valley grape varieties that are made by Church & State Wines. The Viognier and Roussanne grapes come from their Coyote Bowl and Bella vineyards in the south Okanagan. The soils in these vineyards consist…
Today I’m tasting two white grape varieties from Alsace and from the Rhone Valley, but grown in BC! Church & State Wines grows both Pinot Gris (Alsace) and Marsanne (Rhone) grapes. And have done them very well. Church & State…
On my recent trip to Kamloops I stopped at Harper’s Trail, Monte Creek Ranch, and Privato Vineyard and Winery. At Privato I was able to spend a few quick minutes to try the latest releases of wines with their host…