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Wines To Warm From the Inside Out!

It seems every year about this time,we have a cold snap, and we are rendered immobile for a week or two at a time, usually between the dates of December 26-to around mid-February. We got lucky this year and enjoyed … Continue reading

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Tales from the Canadian Okanagan: Quinta Ferreira Estate Winery

First, of all, this winery was not even on my radar, and second of all, what is a Portugese winery doing in British Columbia?!?  Actually, the owners like to call it a “Canadian Winery with a Portugese twist”.   After … Continue reading

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Tales from the Canadian Okanagan – Black Hills Winery

After starting at a very well-known Canadian winery, and then moving onto a very busy second winery, I had convinced myself that at that point, I was going small.  These were commercial, impersonal, with too many people and not enough … Continue reading

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Queen Chardonnay

I’ve been into Chardonnays lately…and as any wine geek can relate, that is something we likely all go through.  Next month, it might be a different varietal, or even a blend, but for now, the Chardonnay is the Queen.  I … Continue reading

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