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Pascal Madevon, a Bordeaux-trained winemaker who now calls BC home, brings his skills to make a magnificent red blend wine for the Okanagan’s French Door Estate Winery. The winery was founded in 2019 and is already producing impressive wines. I received a bottle of French Door Estate Winery’s héritage French Blend 2020, which contains just about every major red Bordeaux…
Sauvignon Blanc‘s home is France, but it has spread around the world, like many other vitis vinifera. It typically is served as a single varietal wine but does show up in blends, most notably in Bordeaux. The grape most likely gets its name from the French words sauvage, “wild”, and blanc, “white”, due to its early origins as an indigenous…
Are you a Bordeaux wine lover? Do you know the difference between the Left and Right bank? Can you list all the permitted red grape varieties in Bordeaux? Do you know the two white grape varieties that make white Bordeaux? Bordeaux wines are some of the most coveted wines in the world. Other “New World” regions make Bordeaux blends, but…
Let’s welcome National Cheese Day happening on June 4, a celebration of one of the most beloved and diverse food items around the world. On this special day, cheese enthusiasts come together to honour the rich history and flavours of this delectable dairy product. Dating back thousands of years, cheese-making techniques have evolved and given rise to countless varieties, each…
Okanagan’s Osoyoos Larose is well known for their top-tier Le Grand Vin and their second-tier wine, Petales d’Osoyoos. Their inaugural wine, Osoyoos Larose Le Grand Vin 2001, exceeded all expectations at home and abroad. Myself and a group of other media and sommeliers were invited to sit down for a casual dinner with winemaker Michael Kullman to taste through some…
I don’t usually put wines from different wineries together in a post, but today I did. Why? I wanted to show you that BC makes blends, and not necessarily traditional blends, like from Bordeaux. In BC and the New World, we are not tied to the restrictions of our region. We can experiment with our wines and make blends that…
If you enjoy drinking Bordeaux wines, the 2019 Bordeaux release at BC Liquor Stores happens on Saturday, November 19, 2022. Below is the press release I received from BC Liquor Stores. Sorry for all the frames showing in the press release. It is how the press release was formatted. ~~~~ BCLIQUOR’s highly anticipated 2019 Bordeaux Release is happening on Saturday, November 19th in select…
Bordeaux blends are popular around the world. Many wineries make Bordeaux blends in BC, but few have a winemaker from Bordeaux! One such winery is French Door Estate Winery, a family-run winery founded in 2019 just south of Oliver, BC, on the Black Sage Bench. They are extremely fortunate to have Pascal Madevon as its winemaker. As I mentioned Pascal…
How much faith do you have in the product you create, whether it is a book you write or a wine you produce? Roche Wines has great faith in their wines and it shows. They asked sixteen Canadian artists to taste their wines “blind”, not knowing anything about the wine, other than it is red or white. And then asking…
Wanderlust. We must all have it after staying in our homes for the past two years due to COVID. Maybe venturing out to a nearby city or town within a day’s driving distance, but not getting on an airplane and going where your heart desires. I love wine, and I enjoy going to wine regions around the world, meeting winemakers…
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