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Sonoma County in California is not as well known as the county next door, Napa, but it should be better known due to it’s quality wines. Sonoma has a cooler climate than Napa, which is more inland, plus has the Mayacamas Mountains to block the cool maritime air. The unique climates of Sonoma County allow a wide range of red…
I’m so excited because tomorrow I will be attending a media dinner to try a flight of wines by Ravenswood Winery wine maker Joel Peterson at the Flying Pig in Yaletown. The wines I will be sampling, and tweeting live to you will be: Ravenswood VB Chardonnay 2010 Ravenswood VB Zinfandel 2009 Sangiacomo Chardonnay Lodi Zinfandel 2009 Sonoma Zinfandel County…
Le Parisien opened in April 2012 on Denman Street in the West End of downtown Vancouver. The younger sister to Bistro Pastis in Kitsilano, voted the Best Bistro at the Vancouver Magazine Awards. With this media dinner at Le Parisien, I am sure that Le Parisien will be winning many awards soon. Both restaurants are owned by French Chevalier de…
BC wines are continuing to make strides around the world. Last year BC wineries won more than 2000 medals in national and international competition according to the BC Wine Institute. BC has over 208 wineries today. We grow over 75 different grape varieties! Merlot is the most planted grape in BC, and Pinot Gris is the most planted white grape…
From the Fall through Spring, the Import Vintners & Spirits Association (IVSA) hosts a regular tasting of importers latest wines, beer and spirits. The kick-off for the fall was last week, and it was very busy. Again too many wines to try, so I went table by table trying to find wines of interest, or completely new wines/wineries I have…
I was happy to be invited for the second year in a row to the Select Wines & Spirits’ Annual Portfolio Tasting, held at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. Last year I found several gems that I passed along to you, and you will read about my latest wine recommendations. You may want to compare to my last year’s…
I always appreciate seminars held with winemakers and winery principals to discuss their wines. In this case, it was with winemaker Severine Pinte and General Manager Rasoul Salehi from Le Vieux Pin in the Chateau Belair Boardroom of the Sutton Place Hotel. Le Vieux Pin is one of my favourite wineries in the Okanagan. They consistently deliver high quality red…
This long weekend I went to a friend’s house for dinner and I brought a bottle of Chenin Blanc from the Loire Valley, France that I purchased last summer while I was on vacation. When I picked out this bottle to bring to the dinner party, I remembered going to the winery, my discussion with the person in the tasting…
On Friday night, Dianne Chow and I were invited to sample some of the new menu items at Hurricane Grill (1137 Marinaside Crescent) in Yaletown. Hurricane Grill is situated in a beautiful part of Yaletown facing the inner harbour lined with sailing boats. Sitting on the patio, sipping a glass of wine is probably a past time of many of…
Have you ever attended ChefmeetsBCGrape before? It is a great event where you get to try BC VQA wines, and wonderful food produced by top BC chefs. The dishes prepared are from Ocean Wise partner restaurants, which is good IMHO as I want to support ocean-friendly seafood choices. This event is held in Vancouver. When you check the list of…
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