Happy Holidays, everyone! My partner and I, being the wine geeks that we are, decided to make holiday carols a bit more interesting this year! By using the song rhythms of popular carols, we created our own lyrics — but about wine! Each week prior to Christmas, I will be posting one song. Enjoy them, …
Hello wine lovers! I recently met up with the lovely folks at Saul Good Gift Co. – a Vancouver gift basket company providing unique customized gourmet and organic corporate gift solutions – to talk about some of the basic rules of food & wine pairing. We also got to sit down and try some of …
Pfaffenheim is a brand that I stand behind for good quality, complex, and affordable wines. They really know how to make an amiable product. As Pfaffenheim’s wines are made in the Alsatian style, I particularly enjoy their Gewürztraminer, as it bursts forth with tropical fruit flavours. Alsace pushes the “edges” of wine by making bold, …
Selling for $14.99 at BC Liquor Stores, and perfectly paired with seared Calvados-infused pork chops, roasted rosemary and garlic potatoes, and spicy cashew green beans, this Oliver-based Riesling was a pretty big hit at dinner on September 22, 2012. Every single guest agreed that this off dry Riesling from the Okanagan was one that they …
Looking for a neat little getaway (that is relatively close to Vancouver) for some wine tasting? I recommend heading down to Woodinville Wine Country in Washington State. There are truly some very interesting wines coming out of Amavi Cellars, J. Bookwalter Wines, Jannuik Winery (their Merlot is wonderful!), and of course, Matthews Estate. I have …
The Demystified Vine 