In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am going to include 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 … Read more
2021 Siegerrebe Blue Grouse Duncan, BC $25.99 Lemon yellow with light intensity. The nose is fresh and inviting with melon, juicy stone fruit, gooseberry, and Meyer lemon aromas. This wine is drier than the nose would lead you to believe. Very good balance. A cacophony of flavours and perfume on the palate followed by a … Read more
Seña is a unique Bordeaux-style red blend with a very Chilean soul.
2019 Chardonnay Monte Creek Monte Creek, BC $21.99 Golden straw in colour with medium-minus intensity. The nose opens with aromas of pineapple, fruit salad, banana, mango, honey, lemon, apricot, peach, and floral notes. Good balance with a creamy texture. The flavours follow the nose with fruit salad flavours with a medium-plus finish. 2020 Pinot … Read more
2019 Pinot Blanc Black Swift West Kelowna, BC $27.99 Golden yellow with medium intensity. Delicate yellow apple, white flowers, pineapple, white peach, and lemon curd on the nose. Good balance. The flavours follow the nose. A medium finish with a hint of almond. Some of this wine was aged in oak, the rest in … Read more
2019 Chardonnay (Dr. Bonnie Henry Tribute Series) Meyer Family Vineyards Okanagan Falls, BC $30.52 The grapes for this wine come from the Old Main Road Vineyard in Naramata. Each year Meyer Family Vineyards selects a notable person to be honoured with their Tribute Series, and this year, understandably, their decision was Dr. Bonnie Henry, … Read more
2020 Sauvignon Blanc (Reserva Especial) Santa Rita 120 Valle Central, Chile $11.99 This value-priced wine over-delivers. Great for an everyday wine to keep in the fridge. Lemon yellow with medium-minus intensity. Aromas of lemon, honey, melon, fresh-cut grass, and hints of green apple and green beans on the nose. Good body with medium-plus body. … Read more
2019 Moscato Frizzante Kismet Oliver, BC $25.99 This lip-smacker is lemon yellow with medium-light intensity. An inviting Muscat nose with aromas of honey, apricot, melon, orange blossom, and lemon cream. Good balance and drier than the nose might suggest, with good mouth-filling mousse. Persistent bubbles form a necklace around the inside of the glass. Very … Read more
The most ambitious environmental conference ever organized for the wine community will launch as a fully online gathering May 23-26, 2022. Broadcast in four languages simultaneously (English, Spanish, French, Italian) from 8 different parts of the planet in their respective time zones.
2020 Sauvignon Blanc Mayhem Okanagan Falls, BC $20.00 Pale straw with medium-light intensity. The nose shows aromas of peach, grass, gooseberry, minerality, lime zest, and delicate banana notes. Good balance. Refreshing on the palate followed by a medium-plus finish with flavours lingering. Tasting this makes me think of seafood, salmon, white fish, and prawn and … Read more