Tag: Joel Gott

Have you ever rooted through your wine cellar and find a bottle that you bought, but don’t remember when you bought it?  That is what happened to me as I was looking for a wine to go with a pot roast that I had cooked.  With the rich flavours of the pot roast, I thought that this wine, the Joel…

Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay put California on the wine radar around the world.  Excellent growing conditions in Napa, Sonoma, and elsewhere in California produce excellent wines.  At the California Wine Fair I was able to taste many high quality wines.  You will still see oak showing up in some of my notes for the Chardonnay wines, but it is not…

Yesterday afternoon was beautiful and sunny, and the Dockside Restaurant perfectly placed in Granville Island looking over the water.  With this as our backdrop we were enticed to try wines from around the world by 17 different wine agencies here in Vancouver.  The name of the event is Pelican Bay Wine Tasting.  As I had not attended this event before,…