Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
When you think of viticulture, you probably think of people in the vineyards training the vines, thinning foliage, or green harvesting. But there is more technology being used in vineyard management than you know. Satellite imagery, drones, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are all tools that are more commonly used by viticulturists. My career has been in geospatial technologies since…
Who is Pedro Parra? A French-educated Chilean, who looks at the definition of terroir through the use of modern scientific techniques. The Old World has many hundreds of years to experiment, but in the New World, we do not have luxury. From my interview at the Vancouver International Wine Festival, find out how Pedro determines terroir and the best grapes to…
BC’s Pinot Noirs do show unique aromas and flavours according to soil type, as I have found through my GIS analysis of soil type. But we know that our climate, although considered cool, does show variation from the warmer regions of the South Okanagan as we move northward to Lake Country for example. A second question I posed besides the…
With summer holidays and then the extended power outage due to the wind storm this past weekend, I have finally finished tasting through all the 2013-14 vintages of BC Riesling that I received from BC wineries. Thank you all. My next step is to enter all my tasting notes into a database. The database will be broken down by primary…
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