One of my favourite certified organic wineries from BC is Kalala Organic Estate Winery, in West Kelowna. Making wine, starting in 2006, I’d say that they were one of the pioneer wineries showing that you can produce excellent organic wine…
New Zealand is a small country, but is delivering a whopping amount of wine and generating an amazing NZ $2 billion in the process. Here is the press release from the New Zealand Winegrowers about their export sales. Canada figures…
I taste wines at all price points. You don’t necessarily buy and drink $40/bottle wines regularly. Sometimes you want a wine that is quaffable and doesn’t break the bank. Chile has been a constant producer of wines in both categories.…
When getting ready for the holiday season, wine is a celebratory drink. And we all enjoy having something to eat during the holidays, so I would like to offer you some wine and cheese pairings recommendations. Here is the first…
Loveblock Tee Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2019 (NZ $26.99) Straight out the gate this is unlike any Sauvignon Blanc I’ve tasted recently. Perfumed with lemon verbena, lemongrass, soft herbaceousness and a whisker of marzipan, on the palate it’s crunchy-fresh and flinty,…
Here are my last two wines to review for you from Church & State Wines. They grow grapes and produce wines from both their Vancouver Island and their Okanagan vineyard/winery sites. The two wines I tasted for this article are…
How would you like to impress your family and friends with two little known white wines from BC? You can with a Viognier and a white Bordeaux blend from TIME Winery. I was impressed with the quality of these two…
At this point of my trip to Chile I had visited wineries from the Aconcagua and the Casablanca Valleys. Now I visited a few wineries closer to Santiago in the Maipo Valley, then headed south to the Colchagua Valley.  A…
I feel good about enjoying these two wines by Sea Change, which come from France. Sea Change use renewable plant-based closures (corks) and the paper for the labels coming from certified sustainable forests and made partially from grape waste.  I…
With the lockdown on travel due to COVID-19, I thought I’d look back at some of my trips to wine regions around the world. One of my memorable trips was to Chile in October 2009 where I toured around Santiago,…