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  • 5 Chateau Ste Michelle Limited Release Wines Review

    This Chateau Ste Michelle wines’ review covers five limited release wines, including the 2022 Eroica Riesling and 2019 GV Chardonnay, with tasting notes and food pairing ideas and recipes. All these wines are featured at the Chateau Ste Michelle Grand Tour [Read more]

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  • Skydiving in Sequins: Col Solare Wines, an Outsider’s Perspective

    Imagine skydiving in sequins or Megan Thee Stallion & Cardi B bottled. Hot, flashy and in your face! That’s Col Solare wines. [Read more]

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  • 2018 Clos Des Lunes, Lune D’Argent: Not Quite The Great Wine We Expected It To Be

    They say: “Clos des Lunes, Lune d’Argent is a good wine with a promise of greatness”. We say: Whoa! Hold your horses, Chevalier!” At $15, it’s a fair deal, but the excitement falters at $40. [Read more]

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  • Exquisite Sips And Amazing Savors At The Phantom Creek Estates’ Restaurant

    It had been over a year since our last visit to the Phantom Creek Estate Winery located in the Osoyoos wine region of British Columbia. We were eager to return to Phantom Creek Estate Winery, this time to experience their wines while dining at their renowned restaurant. During our previous visit, we were mistaken for… [Read more]

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  • Tasting Clos du Soleil Latest Releases: Do They Really Make Some of the Best Wines in all of Canada?

    Welcome to the fascinating world of Clos du Soleil Winery, nestled in the charming town of Keremeos, Similkameen Valley. Right at the entrance, you’ll find Clifton Fadiman’s quote, “If Food is the body of good living, Wine is its soul.” As you read that quote you can’t help but wonder: Can the wine tasting provide… [Read more]

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  • 3 Amazing Provence rosé Wines for the best “Rosé-all-Day” Summer

    Experiencing Provence rosé wine is essential to truly understanding and appreciating the concept of rosé wine in general. To help you get started on your discovery journey, we picked four wines that exemplify the essence of Provence rosés. This selection will appeal to both discerning wine connoisseurs and those seeking a delightful companion for leisurely… [Read more]

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  • Best CheckMate Winery wines review: This is what their 100 point Chardonnay and other 90+ point wines taste like. Is it worth your money?

    If you’ve been following our wine tales, you’ll know we’re quite obsessed with oaked Chardonnays from Côte de Beaune and California. We once opined that a short growing cycle in Canada made it impossible to produce anything even remotely close to these styles. But hold your wine glasses because times have changed, my friends! Canada… [Read more]

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  • From Plonk To Premium: South America’s Great Red Wines

    A stereotype of South America as a wine producer of cheap, chuggable wines that lack personality, a polite way to describe plonk, is unyielding. To make the point, think of the answer to this question – how many fine wine lists have you seen that prominently feature South American wines? The four red wines discussed… [Read more]

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  • Six South American White wines to surprise and amaze you.

    Whenever we think of South American wines, we fall back into stereotypes. The first stereotype dictates that Argentina only produces red wines and mainly Malbecs. The second stereotype casts South America as a wine producer of cheap, chuggable wines that lack personality, a polite way to describe plonk. The six wines discussed in this post… [Read more]

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  • Tasting Blandy’s 3 years old Full Sweet Madeira wine: “Duke of Clarence”

    We have opined in the past that all 3 years old blended fortified wines produced on the island of Madeira are basically indistinguishable. So, if you are one of these winemakers vying for the attention of the outside world, how do you differentiate your product? By getting creative with naming your wines, of course! Blandy’s… [Read more]

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