by mywinepal • • Comments Off on A Few Wine Suggestions for Canadian Thanksgiving 2022
Canadian Thanksgiving is on Monday, October 10, 2022. You may be making a list of ingredients to buy for your Thanksgiving dinner. A traditional / historical dinner with turkey or ham, brussel sprouts, yam, and mashed potatoes with gravy. Or…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Tasting Pinots at Spearhead Winery
Do you love Pinot Noir and Chardonnay? If you have not tried the wines from Spearhead Winery in Kelowna, you should. Top quality award-winning wines. I stopped by the winery to have a casual tasting outside. I went through their…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on 2 Classy Chardonnay from Spearhead Winery
Beautiful and elegant are two words that I would use to describe the two Chardonnay wines that I received from Spearhead Winery in the Okanagan. Winemaker, Grant Stanley, has outdone himself with such excellent wines. One wine is from grapes…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Canadian WineAlign Awards for 2022
We all like to receive awards. Knowing that we are good, or the best at something. Fastest runner at the 100-yard dash, smartest in math, etc. when we are in school. Then industry awards when we go to work. There…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Hooray “Bacon” Wrapped Dates and Wine for Valentine’s Day
Here is an appetizer that you may want to consider for Valentine’s Day, made using Hooray “Bacon”, which is a plant-based alternative to bacon. The entire recipe below that I received from Hooray Foods is plant-based. And as I am…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on MyWinePal’s Near-Perfect 4.5-5 Star Wines for 2021
As I mentioned for my five-star wine ratings this year, COVID limited the number of events and thus wines that I could taste that came from around the world to BC. That being said, I am grateful for the BC…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on A Few BC Wines for COVID Thanksgiving 2021
Canadian Thanksgiving 2021 is going to be very different this year for many of us who are accustomed to getting together with our parents, brothers and sister, and maybe aunts and uncles for dinner. Just like Thanksgiving 2020, but now…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on BC Lieutenant Governor’s Wine Awards Recognizes the Best in BC Wines
Yesterday was the announcement of winners for the 2021 BC Lieutenant Governor’s Wine Awards. I was very pleased to read that Spearhead Winery won 3 Platinum Medals for 3 different Pinot Noir wines. Here is the press release about the…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on 3 Muses of Pinot Noir from Spearhead Winery
According to Greek mythology, the Three Muses were the Greek goddesses of poetic inspiration, the adored deities of song, dance, and memory, on whose mercy the creativity, wisdom and insight of all artists and thinkers depended (greekmythology.com). The three Pinot…
by mywinepal • • Comments Off on Sparkling + Rosé = Celebrate Spring and Summer with BC Wine
It is Spring now, the cherry blossoms have passed, we are getting into our gardens and summer is one month away. It is time to get outside on our patios and enjoy some tasty BC wine. I think sparkling wine…