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One thing that I learned from my time being a part of the South World Wine Society many years ago was that Chile produces many premium wines, but at the time the entry-level wines were only making it into BC liquor stores. Things slowly change and you can now find more premium Chilean wines, usually from Cabernet Sauvignon, which is…
Although we cannot celebrate the Vancouver International Wine Festival together this year, I have some wines from Chile and Argentina that I would like to taste and share my tasting notes with you. This year the theme region was South America, so we would have been tasting wines from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brasil. I purchased these two Chilean wines…
Today I have 3 seemingly unrelated wines, and they are. Sometimes when you are tasting wines for review, you have single bottles and no pairing with other related wines. So today is a bit of a mix of wines. One is a BC wine, another from Germany, and the third from Chile. Grapes are Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Riesling, and Carmenere. …
At this point of my trip to Chile I had visited wineries from the Aconcagua and the Casablanca Valleys. Now I visited a few wineries closer to Santiago in the Maipo Valley, then headed south to the Colchagua Valley. A Visit to Wineries of the Maipo Valley Around Santiago Around Santiago is the Maipo Valley, which is the oldest wine…
This is Part 2 of my top rated wines for 2018. I earlier released my list of 40 white and sparkling wines for 2018, which you can read at this link. This red wine list came from Trade tastings with agents and BC VQA wineries, the Vancouver International Wine Festival, visits to wineries, and personal purchases. I categorized the wines below to…
As I mentioned in my previous article on my top rated white, sparkling, and fortified wines for 2017, there were so many excellent wines that I tasted this year. As I review the red wines that I’ve listed below, there are many wines from Italy, in part due to the many visits by Italian wineries to Vancouver this year. From…
The holiday season is coming up quickly and if you are wondering what to do for your office or party with friends, how about have a wine tasting? Sounds fun, but how do I pick the wines? Well, I’ve taken care of that for you, with a sample of wines that you can purchase through the BC Liquor Stores. I’ve…
It is almost the end of summer, but the sun is still shining and we should get out onto the patio and enjoy fresh wine. I received a box of wines to try from Evolve Cellars in Summerland, and inside there were two bottles of bubble, three white aromatics, a rose, and a silky red. Okanagan white wines show off…
Sometimes the best wines around are the ones that are not generally listed in BC Liquor stores. They are known as Spec or Special Order wines. You can find these wines through some private wine shops, or you could order them through these shops, but you may need a minimum order size. I attended Select Wines‘ portfolio tasting and enjoyed…
Beside the theme country every year in the Festival Tasting room of the Vancouver International Wine Festival, there are all the other wineries from countries around the world offering their wines for you to try. Below are 15 wines that I thought were excellent. Some may be in BC liquor stores and others may have only been available during the Festival….
