Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
I was invited to sit down with Mr. Beppe d’Andrea, Ruffino‘s Senior Global Brand Ambassador, to taste a selection of their wines and talk about the winery and other wine topics while Beppe was attending VanWineFest 2024. In 1987, Beppe began his career with Ruffino and has never looked back. Initially working in the vineyards, he soon joined the winemaking…
The Lake Garda region in Italy, on the western edge of the Veneto region, shares some of the same grape varieties as Valpolicella but is not as well known. The region makes a tasty white wine blend, known as Custoza, and a red blend called Bardolino, plus a few other types of wines. I was fortunate to interview winery owner,…
It was a pleasure to meet Mr. Denis Guthmuller, winemaker and President of the Syndicat des Vignerons des Cotes du Rhone, in Vancouver at the Rhone Valley Vineyards Wine Maker Tour. I spoke with Mr. Guthmuller about the current harvest in the Rhone Valley for his winery. Watch the video and see what you can expect from Cotes du Rhone…
This is my sixth year interviewing winemakers or winery principals in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. I visited the Niagara-on-the-Lake area in September and heard many positive comments from winemakers about the upcoming harvest season. Now that it is early December and the wines are all in tanks or barrels, how did the Ontario grape growing…
For the 2023 harvest, many winegrowers reported their earliest start on record due to a hot, sunny summer. What did Wines of British Columbia have to say? From Wines of British Columbia, “Going into the summer season BC wineries knew they were facing the challenge of a reduced wine grape crop. “A devastating extreme cold event in December 2022 impacted…
My only video interview of a winery not in South America at VanWineFest 2023 comes from José Luis Muguiro Jr from Marqués de Riscal in Spain. Earlier in the VanWineFest week I had a winery dinner with him at Homer St Cafe and it was one of the best and most memorable dinners I have ever had at VanWineFest. Marqués…
I was pleased to meet Martin Kaiser, Deputy Director of Viticulture and Enology from Doña Paula in Argentina at VanWineFest 2023 to learn about their winery and the Malbec wines they were pouring at the Festival. Enjoy the video.
One of the oldest wineries in Argentina is Escorihuela Gascón 1884. I had a chance to talk with Renzo Monga, Export Director from Escorihuela Gascón 1884 during VanWineFest 2023 about the history of the winery plus he introduced me to one of their Malbec wines and a Limited Production Cabernet Sauvignon. Enjoy our discussion.
Some wineries at the Vancouver International Wine Festival have over a hundred years of history and others are new with 20-30 years. Bodega Huanacache is one of the newer wineries coming from Argentina. Listen to Sergio Moraviera from Bodega Huanacache as he talks with Karl MyWinePal about the winery and the Chardonnay that was poured for me to sip.
I’ve enjoyed the wines of Luigi Bosca from Argentina for many years, Malbecs in particular, but this winery is about more than Malbec wines. In this video interview undertaken at VanWineFest 2023 with Gaston Caltabiano, Area Manager for Canada, I spoke with him about their Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon wines. Listen and then look for these wines at your…
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