The Demystified Vine

Taking the mystery out of wine exploration!

The wine tour continues! Next stop: Angels Gate Next on our list of wineries to visit was Angel’s Gate. Angel’s Gate is just up the road from Thirty Bench, and so it was a quick hop across the bench. Angels Gate does higher volume in Niagara as compared to most wineries. They produce approximately 35,000 …

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It was the early morning of December 29th, 2012. The buzzing of my alarm woke me out of a deep sleep. I was alright with that though, because I knew that I was going to be heading to Niagara to do a winery tour of the Niagara Bench. On the list of vineyards and wineries …

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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 …

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I am inclined to begin this post by mentioning that the concept of karma is widely known to be a cause and effect law. So, with that as a reminder, I will now continue my blogging. Background: I was on summer vacation in the Lake Chelan area of Washington in July 2012. After disembarking from …

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If you like white wines that are fruit forward, I recommend you try Kettle Valley Winery’s 2010 Gewürztraminer. If you don’t like fruit in your face, well, you’re out of luck with this one. I decided to purchase this bottle because I wanted to contribute a little “Gewurz” to the stomachs and hearts of the …

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