Sam The Wine Teacher

Sam, The Wine Teacher, has been an educator, a home winemaker, a wine judge for too many years to count and is the former Guild Master of the BC Guild of Wine Judges. He has offered wine education and appreciation courses for Pacific Breeze Winery, Capilano College, Eden West fine foods, the Richmond School District Continuing Education department, Coquitlam Continuing Education, the VAWA, the BCAWA as well as for various private functions. He also trains staff and offers cellar evaluations.

Wednesday Wine Reviews by @Sam_WineTeacher

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NV Brut Frind West Kelowna, BC $24.19 Pale straw with medium-light intensity.  The nose shows aromas of brioche, minerality, apple, lemon, white flowers, and wet stones.  Good balance and mousse.  Th flavours reflect the nose followed by a medium-plus finish with citrus notes lingering.  Good value BC bubbly.   2021 Siegerrebe Nagging Doubt Kelowna, BC … Read more

From the Cellar with @Sam_WineTeacher

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In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am including a new one that will appear from time to time.  I’m calling it, ‘From the Cellar’. It will be much like the wine reviews, except that it will feature wines that have … Read more

From the Cellar with @Sam_WineTeacher

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More and more people are realizing the benefits of holding on to some of their wines.

Here’s What’s New in OK Falls

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These release parties allow the wineries to showcase their latest offerings.

Blasted Church 2022 @Sam_WineTeacher

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Blasted Church was one of the first wineries to seize on funky eye-catching wine labels with equally intriguing names centred around their unique name – Holy Moly, Big Bang Theory, Hatfield’s Fuse, Amen, Nothing Sacred, Nectar of the Gods, and the Damned Flood among others.  Every label tells a story.  Blasted Church makes single-variety wines … Read more

Wednesday Wine Reviews with @Sam_WineTeacher

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    2021 Riesling Monte Creek Monte Creek, BC $29.99 Terroir is what gives this wine its character.   Grown on their Lion’s Head vineyard which, “contains highly calcareous soils that help to generate the tension and acidity that all great Rieslings have.”  Fermented cold and slow which helps to preserve aromatics.  Lemon yellow with medium-light … Read more

Wednesday Wine Reviews with @Sam_WineTeacher

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  2019 Sparkling Rosé Monte Creek Monte Creek, BC $23.99 Cherry red with medium intensity.  Strawberries, cream, cherries, cranberries, and delicate dusty wild herbs on the nose.  Very good balance with good mousse.  Refreshing on the palate with bright fruit shining through.  Cherries linger on the medium-plus finish.  A versatile sparkler well suited as a … Read more

From the Cellar  with Sam_WineTeacher

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‘From the Cellar’ for those wines I have to blow the dust off.

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