Although France was the theme country this year at the Vancouver International Wine Festival, there was a great contingent of wineries from around the world and from BC to pour their wines for us. Below are wines that I enjoyed…
North and east of Verona, Italy is where Valpolicella wines originate and a little to the north of Valpolicella you find Prosecco wines. You may have heard of Prosecco, the sparkling darling of people around the world at the moment. …
What is Amarone wine? Amarone is a style of Valpolicella wine. The Valpolicella region is located north of Verona, bordering Lake Garda to the west and by the Lessini Mountains to the east and north. There are 4 styles of…
Wine Meridian a web-based wine magazine celebrating Italian wine dropped by Vancouver this week with 20+ wineries and some of their wines from across Italy to sample. From Piemonte to Puglia, from Sicilia to Veneto, we had plenty of interesting…
Italian wines can make any day feel like a holiday. But we do have holidays upcoming so here are a few Italian wines that I recently tasted in downtown Vancouver that you may want to consider purchasing. Of particular note…
Did you know that Italy has more than 500 DOCs, more than 2000 Italian grape varieties, and covers nearly 700,000 hectares of vineyards? That dwarfs BC and all of Canada’s production and grape variety. Recently Wine Meridian, a wine magazine…
Indigenous grapes excite me. Learning about these grapes and their flavours and aromas make wine tasting interesting. We can travel around the world and sample Cabernet Sauvignon, and it will in general have a very similar flavour and aroma profile,…
February 20, 2016 is the first day for the Vancouver International Wine Festival this year. We are just about a month away. Did you know that the tickets for events are open to the public? Many events are sold out…
The history of Masi is the history of a family and its vineyards in Verona, part of the Veneto. The name itself derives from the Vaio dei Masi, the small valley purchased at the end of the XVIII century by…
We all can learn. Nothing stays the same. Things change. This is true about ourselves, but also about wine regions. In this case, I attended a seminar to learn about what changes have been going on the last few years…