Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
What do you know about Champagne, other than its bubbles and high quality? Do you know where the Champagne region is located in France? How the 360 Champagne Houses and 16,100 growers get the bubbles in the bottle? Which grapes are permitted to make Champagne? Or that 297.6 million bottles of Champagne were shipped around the world in 2019? Let…
Portfolio tastings with a wine agency is always very fun and interesting as you get to taste the range of their wines and spirits at one time. This was my first Charton Hobbs Portfolio tasting, so I was not aware of all the wines and spirits that they handled. I was quite impressed. They arranged the wines by table, with…
When you talk with visitors to the Okanagan, most will say they want to visit Summerhill Winery and see their pyramid, where they partially age all their wines. Some may say they also want to visit because it uses biodynamic farming methods. I sat down with Ezra Cipes, CEO of Summerhill, and son of the founder, Stephen Cipes, at a restaurant…
