Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
The schedule for the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2023 has been posted. There are dinners, seminars, minglers, trade events, and of course the International Festival Tasting room where you will be able to taste the wines from all 151 participating wineries. But which to choose? I have a few suggestions for you. First, you should attend the International Festival Tasting…
I was fortunate to be invited to taste two vintages of Seña wines from Chile paired with dishes at Black + Blue restaurant in downtown Vancouver. The wine luncheon and tasting was led by Mr. Michel Couttolenc, Fine Wines Director for Viñedo Chadwick and Seña. Seña is a joint venture winery started in 1995 between Napa Valley’s Robert Mondavi and Chile’s…
My first and only dinner during the Vancouver Wine Festival 2022 was the “Icons of South America” held at Alouette Bistro. Classic French cuisine with a West Coast twist meets powerhouse wines from Chile. Wines from Viñedo Chadwick, Seña, and Arboleda wines, from the vineyards in the Aconcagua Valley and Maipo Valley, were paired with the following dishes prepared by…
To celebrate BC Liquor Stores’ 100th year anniversary, a collection of rare, premium, collectible wines and spirits will be released on March 13, 2021, at participating Stores. The collection features many top-rated wines, along with a selection of classics from the finest wine regions of the world. For spirits, BC Liquor Stores will feature whiskies from the most iconic distilleries in…
Last week the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival finished, and more work began for me. Last week was about tasting the wines from Chile and from many other wineries around the world. This week starts my writing my experiences in seminars and in the International Festival Tasting room. I made the following recommendations for Chilean wines that I had tried…
