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Chaberton Estate Winery is the pioneer winery of the Fraser Valley. It grows 44 acres of estate-grown fruit with other parcels from across the Okanagan Valley. Claude and Inge Violet sold their winery and vineyard in France and moved to the Fraser Valley in the 1970’s. They experimented with different grape varieties to see which grew well here, selected the…
Have you ever heard of a sparkling wine called Charme de l’ile, Island Charm in English? It is not a wine from France. It is from Vancouver Island and can only be made on Vancouver Island using Island grapes. Just like Champagne can only be made in the Champagne region of France. Charme is also a nod to the method…
For the past few articles, I’ve been writing about white, aromatic wines and sparkling wines for the summer. But there is more than bright, white, and sparkling wines for the summer. Think red wines for the BBQ. Today I have two red wines coming from the Okanagan’s Gold Hill Winery. They have an excellent reputation for big red wines. The…
BC wineries are quite accomplished at producing quality, aromatic white wines. I have two aromatic white wines from the Okanagan coming from the Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris grapes. They are the Hester Creek Estate Winery Old Vine Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris wines from the 2025 vintage. 2025 was a fantastic vintage for BC Okanagan wines. The white wines…
What BC wine would you have with a sechetti (parachute) pasta stuffed with ground chicken and bacon, served in a creamy rosé sauce? One option is a Rose wine, but another valid option would be a Chardonnay. Today I had this pasta dish with a glass of Lillooet’s Fort Berens Estate Winery Chardonnay 2025. Fort Beren’s wines are now certified…
In BC we welcomed the bountiful grape harvest of 2025, after we had two terrible years with cold winter weather that devastated our grape vines. White wines are usually the first to be released after a harvest. I received several bottles of the 2025 vintage wines from Lillooet’s Fort Berens Estate Winery, and today I tasted two of those wines: …
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I received four bottles of different Chardonnay produced by Ontario’s Henry of Pelham winery. I previously tasted their more entry level wines: Henry of Pelham Family Estate Classic Chardonnay 2025 and Speck Brothers Family Tree “The Goat Lady” Chardonnay 2023. These wines were under screwcap. The next two wines that I just tasted…
BC’s Township 7 Vineyards & Winery has two elegant red wines that should go well with our beautiful summer plans of a BBQ with family or friends. The wines I received to review are their Township 7 Vineyards & Winery Benchmark Series NBO 2022 and Township 7 Vineyards & Winery Benchmark Series Reserve 7 2022. Both wines are blends. The…
We do not get many wines from Ontario in BC, but here is a new entry. Henry of Pelham, located in the Niagara peninsula has been producing wine since 1984. I have two wines for you today: Henry of Pelham Classic Pinot Grigio 2024 and Henry of Pelham Classic Baco Noir 2023. Baco Noir may be unfamiliar to some of…
I have two Cabernet wines for you from South Okanagan’s Adega on 45th Estate Winery; one is their Cabernet Franc 2022 and the other their Cabernet Sauvignon 2019. Did you know that Cabernet Franc is one of the parents of Cabernet Sauvignon? Who is the other parent? Adega cultivates 19 acres of estate fruit and are committed to sustainability. Their…
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