Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
Do you enjoy puzzles? How about helping Monte Creek Ranch located in Kamloops, BC, put their winery back together? Enjoy this interactive puzzle of the winery. I took this picture last summer 2019. Here is my photo to help you along.
Wine is more than just wine. It is an experience and each wine should hopefully tell you a story about it’s journey from a blossom to a grape to a bottle of wine. As it is an experience, I think the best ways to enjoy wines are through experiences. Here are 4 experiences that I recommend: Visit a wine region…
When you talk with visitors to the Okanagan, most will say they want to visit Summerhill Winery and see their pyramid, where they partially age all their wines. Some may say they also want to visit because it uses biodynamic farming methods. I sat down with Ezra Cipes, CEO of Summerhill, and son of the founder, Stephen Cipes, at a restaurant…
It was my pleasure to have a serious sit down tasting of the wines from D’Angelo Estate Winery. I’ve tasted their wines before at various tastings, the latest being the Naramata Bench “Simply Red” tasting in September. Sal D’Angelo has been making wine for nearly 25 years. He started with a winery in Amherstburg, ON in 1984, and in 2007…
The summer is upon us, so it was time to head out to the Fraser Valley in the Vancouver lower mainland, and visit some of the wineries. I have visited Lulu Island and Pacific Breeze wineries in the past. Today my goal was to visit Township 7, Neck of the Woods, and Domaine de Chaberton Estate Winery. Well first off,…
As promised this is Part 2 of my trip to visit some of the wineries in the Fraser Valley. On this trip I visited Lotusland, Blackwood Lane, and Mt. Lehman wineries. The first winery visited was Lotusland Winery. This winery produces wines from grapes that are 100% grown in the Fraser Valley. The grapes are grown organically, but not yet…
