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I first wrote this article in August 2015 when these 2 wines were first released during a walk about food & wine tasting, but then in the Fall I received a bottle of each wine again at home to re-taste. Since August, approximately 4 months have elapsed till this re-taste. Both wines are under screw cap, so did the aromas…
Do you know where Lake Country is in BC? Most people probably don’t, but it is just a short drive north of Kelowna. One of the first wineries in BC, Gray Monk Estate Winery, was established in Lake Country. Other Lake Country wineries are 50th Parallel Estate, Arrowleaf Cellars, Intrigue Wines, and Ex Nihilo Vineyards. I was recently in the…
There are many methods or devices that people use to add oxygen to wine to soften it up and bring out the flavours and aromas of the wines. It can be as simple as a decanter. One of the devices which I heard about, called OptiWine, caught my interest. I emailed the company optiwine.fr and asked them for one of…
Summer is here, it’s hot outside, and you need a cool drink on the patio. More people are opening a botle of rose wine. I received a bottle of SpierHead Pinot Noir Rose 2014 to taste. Spierhead Winery is located in Kelowna on Spiers Road. I have tasted many of their wines in the past and all have been good…
Sometimes you get some free time and can take a quick trip to the Okanagan. That recently happened to me. I wanted to visit at least 2 new wineries to me on this trip. I stayed in Kelowna, and checking the latest winery map, I saw that I have been to all in the area before, so I fixed my…
Yes, I know Father’s Day is a few days away, but here is a great wine and food pairing, which you could offer to your father or husband, on an IOU, if it takes too long to order both items. The Steaks I received two 1″ thick Strip Loin steaks from Fuego Diablo Premium Steaks, via courier, to review. Shipped…
A mysterious postcard arrived in the mail inviting me to visit “the Family” and try some wine. The Cosa Nostra maybe? The address took me to a notorious location in downtown Vancouver, The Penthouse Night Club”. Certainly a different location to try wine! A Sicilian looking guy, dressed in 1930s-40s period suit and hat, greeted me at the door, waiting…
Which side of the Dordogne River do you sit? Left Bank or Right Bank? I ask this as I was presented with two bottles of Meritage; one from Time Estate and the other from McWatters Collection. Both BC wines from the Okanagan Valley, and both Bordeaux blends, (but blends represented by styles from different sides of the Dordogne River). What is…
Summer is nearly upon us, but the weather feels like it is already here. Time to spend time on the patio with family and friends. And of course some nice chilled bottles of BC white wine. Last week I attended the latest BLOOM BC VQA Spring Release Tasting, and tasted the newest BC white wines, and I have a few…
I am a lover of Riesling. It allows the wine maker to produce wine in many styles, from bone dry, to a lusciously sweet ice wine. While we here in BC have talked about making very good aromatic white wines, I have not yet seen a systematic analysis of our aromatic grapes, Riesling in particular, and how the wines differ…
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