Tag: shiraz

Who We Are Moraine Estate Winery is a family owned winery and vineyard overlooking Okanagan Lake, located just minutes from the City of Penticton. From its shelf-like location above striking clay bluffs, Moraine peers over the landscape and water. These iconic glaciated white clay cliffs comprise the breathtaking Naramata Bench and inspire the winery’s land-formed name. The winery owners are…

Italian wines can make any day feel like a holiday. But we do have holidays upcoming so here are a few Italian wines that I recently tasted in downtown Vancouver that you may want to consider purchasing.  Of particular note are the white wines made with indigenous grapes you may not have heard of; Carricante and Grillo exclusively grown in…

Having lunch with a wine maker, and listening to his or her story, about each wine, makes you appreciate it even more, and maybe even add to the deliciousness of the food pairing.  It is not too often that we get a wine maker coming up from Argentina, but standing among us media types, was Rodolfo “Opi” Sadler, from La…

Have you ever read the winemaker’s notes that is sometimes on the back label of a wine bottle or from the winery’s website then try to see if you can pick up the same aromas and flavours?  Or even more challenging, to taste the wine first on your own; making your own notes, then reading what the winemaker says about…

When you want to go out for an upscale dinner where do you go?  Probably downtown Vancouver; maybe West Vancouver; or North Granville.  What about Burnaby?  There are not too many restaurants I can think of in Burnaby that I would categorize as a place for a special dinner. One of the Burnaby restaurants that you may want to consider…

There are many wines to savour from Australia, from classic wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon from the Coonawarra or Semillon from the Hunter Valley, to the new “natural” wines from wineries like Jaume and Alpha Box & Dice.  At the Dish N’ Dazzle event supporting the BC Hospitality Foundation, wines of Australia were sipped and savoured, together with sample dishes…

You know we all want to change the world, and wine making is one of those areas that has been undergoing a revolution to past wine making techniques recently.  I attended a seminar on the past, present, and future of Australian wine making, and it was interesting to see changes that are going on in this country, but it can…

South African wines are well-known for going great with food.  The wines are a mix of the Old World and the New World styles.  Fruit forward, yet still restrained, plus enough structure and acidity to give you wines elegance. If you have not tried South African wines before you may want to try some for free, courtesy of the BCLDB. …

The Fall BC VQA wines were released this past week, and as usual there are too many wines to taste and evaluate.  I usually like to try wines I have not had before, or sample from BC newest wineries.  If you have not come across the term VQA before, it stands for Vintners Quality Alliance, an association that was formed…

Have you noticed some of the large billboards are showing Mallee Rock wines in Vancouver?  I saw this a few weeks ago, then was contacted about the wines.  Mallee Rock Wines is from S. E. Australia and are marketing two of their wines to us; their Shiraz Cabernet 2013, and Pinot Grigio 2014.  The name of the winery recalls the…