You may not realize it but winemakers tend to travel across Canada and the world to make wines. In BC we do have winemakers from here, but there are many from New Zealand and also from the Niagara region in…
This is my second year interviewing winemakers in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. To get a more complete picture of the harvest I asked the following questions to three winemakers in three different grape growing regions…
I enjoy reading books. My interests, in particular, are around health & wellness, history, and food & wine. When I can find a fictional book that covers history as a backdrop, and then add in food & wine, that makes…
For the past few years, I have been covering the BC harvest by interviewing winemakers and finding out how the weather affected this year, what they may be doing new, and other tidbits of information. But I had not interviewed…
This past year I tasted a tremendous number of wines from around the world, but some wines really resonated with me. It may have been the great balance of fruit, sugar, acidity for a white wine, or the fruit, tannins…
While attending the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C) I tasted a small lot Chardonnay, 2015 vintage, by Thirty Bench Wine Makers from the Beamsville Bench in Ontario. That wine stood out among the other Chardonnays that I had tasted…
As promised I have enclosed my tasting notes for the wines I sampled at the three International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration seminars. Many of these Chardonnay come from Ontario, but there are also wines from BC, California, Chile, France and…
Don’t we all love sparkling wine, whether it is high end champagne, or cremants, cavas and more? At the third of the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration seminars, we learned more about how dosage affects sparkling wines aromas, flavours, and…
This was the second seminar in our three seminars on Day 1 of the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration. This seminar’s goals according to the organizers are to answer the following, “Winegrowers love Chardonnay for its versatility. 10 winemakers will defend…
The Seventh Annual International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C) has wrapped up in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. It was a series of seminars, lunches, and dinners that filled an entire weekend from July 21-23, 2017. I was privileged to be invited to…