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Canadian Thanksgiving is going to be very different this year for many of us who are accustomed to getting together with our parents, brothers and sister, and maybe aunts and uncles for dinner. It will be smaller, and may be just you, but you can still enjoy your turkey, ham, or vegan Thanksgiving meal with a glass or two of…
Yesterday I was tasting the Gamay grape two ways from Okanagan Crush Pad‘s Haywire wine label. I tasted the Haywire Gamay Rosé 2019 and Haywire Gamay 2018. The Rosé was fermented dry using native yeasts in a mix of both stainless steel and concrete tanks. The Gamay grapes were gently destemmed with a portion left whole cluster for carbonic complexity, then…
Are you seeing the forest or the trees? An airliner or a bird’s eye view? General or more specific? That is what I wondered as I tasted these two bottles of Pinot Gris by Okanagan Crush Pad’s Haywire Wines from Summerland, BC. that were sent to me to review. The first wine, Haywire Pinot Gris 2019, has grapes sourced from…
Keeping in the theme of the 2018 vintage release, I recently posted on Instagram my review of Haywire‘s Baby Bub 2018, and promised a fuller review with rating here. And here it is! The Haywire Baby Bub 2018 is 375ml so you and your significant other can easily drink this wine to start or finish an evening. This Charmat method…
From BC’s winemakers, the consensus seems to be that 2017 was a more normal growing season compared to the two previous seasons. Although there were horrible wildfires, the fires occurred in early summer, not later in the summer when veraison occurs. Smoke seems to be more problematic for grapes at veraison. The smoke earlier in the summer filtered the sunshine…
With Kinder Morgan considering their decision to continue with their oil pipeline to the Vancouver Lower Mainland to be made by May 31, 2018, the rhetoric between the Alberta and BC governments has ramped up. In February, the Alberta government restricted the import of BC wines into Alberta. Farm Friends, organized by several BC wineries in response to the boycott…
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…
In Part 1 of this article, I covered the comments and insights of wine makers and hands-on owners in BC, Ontario, and Germany on the heartbreak and backache from growing and making wine from the Riesling and Pinot Noir grapes. In Part 2, I have my tasting notes on the wines from these winery principals. Our Featured Wines Haywire Narrative…
When I get a shipment of wines to try from a winery, sometimes a bottle does not make it into the tasting notes. It may be because of the varietal not matching up with the other wines, or the topic of that particular article. These two white wines had to wait for the appropriate moment to be tasted and presented…
My journey is complete. After many emails, printing of tasting note sheets, receiving deliveries of BC Pinot Noir, writing tasting notes, locating BC Pinot Noir vineyards, correlating BC Pinot Noir wines with soil and with latitude using a GIS, and making a cool interactive BC Pinot Noir map is complete. But maybe it is also the start of a new…
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