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Do you like full-bodied red wines? I have 2 for you from Moon Curser Vineyards in Osoyoos. Their Malbec 2020 and Petit Verdot 2020. You don’t see much Petit Verdot in the Okanagan. Malbec is planted more widely but still tiny compared to Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon. According to the 2019 BC Wine Grape Acerage Report, Malbec is in #7…
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 buy their wines. ~~~ LILLOOET, BC – The good news for Lillooet’s Fort Berens Estate Winery came in over several…
I have two single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from Stag’s Hollow Winery in Okanagan Falls. Both are delicious but are quite different in colour, aroma, and flavour. I have wines from their Stag’s Hollow Vineyard and their Shuttleworth Creek Vineyard. Both wines are unfined, unfiltered and vegan friendly. Before telling you about these wines, I would like to point out the…
The Canada Day long weekend celebration is on with picnics and bbqs and generally getting together with friends and family. Enjoying this scene with BC wine would make it even better in my opinion. Below is a list of BC wines I tasted recently that I think would be nice to have this long weekend. Enjoy. A Few Suggested BC…
Congratulations to Blue Grouse Estate Winery for making wines and helping out charities for their 10 years of being in business. It takes a lot of work. In case you haven’t tasted Blue Grouse wines or visited them on Vancouver Island, here is a press release for you. Cin cin. ~~~ This summer the team at Blue Grouse Estate Winery…
OMFG, Blasted Church Vineyards has made an excellent sparkling wine. It really is called OMFG and it is vintage MMXV (which is 2015) from a mix of 59% Pinot Noir and 41% Chardonnay grapes from the Skaha Bench made in the Traditional Method. The wine was disgorged on January 26, 2022. According to the winery, to make this sparkling wine,…
I did get a chance to do a video interview with one BC winery during the Vancouver International Wine Festival. Bordertown Vineyards & Estate Winery is located in Osoyoos. In the Fall I walked to the winery from my hotel. The vineyard stretches downslope to Osoyoos Lake and looks quite pretty. For this video interview, I had owner Mohan Gill…
The fire that ripped through Lytton burning it to the ground was terrible. But Lytton is strong and will rebuild. To help with rebuilding, Fort Berens Estate Winery is offering a special edition Pinot Gris between June 3-12, 2022 to raise funds for Lytton. Here is the announcement from the winery. June 3 is here so start buying this wine…
At the Vancouver International Wine Festival, in the Tasting Room, I did have a chance to go through a flight of Monte Creek Winery wines with Winemaker Galen Barnhardt. Below is a discussion of the wines with Galen. Mostly Galen speaking, which is how an interview should be. Enjoy. Galen: Here we have our sparkling Rosé. It is 2020, from the…
Do you know what are the top two varietal wines that Quails’ Gate Estate Winery from West Kelowna, BC produces? I’ve written many times about my favourite red and white grape varieties here on mywinepal.com. I have Caroline Tucker from Quails’ Gate to talk about their wines, and especially about my two favourite varietal wines. A great discussion with Caroline…
