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Maybe It Was Something I Ate (Drank) #32: 2013 Pinot Blanc from Nk’mip Cellars
I don’t get too fancy with my wine. i like what I like, each palate is unique that way. When in a wine producing region, I’ll go local and the 2013 Pinot Blanc from Nk’mip Cellars is my choice for this Osoyoos visit.
CONTEST: Intimate with Errazuriz at Willow Park Wine And Spirits
Willow Park Wine and Spirits is the best place in Calgary to learn about wine. They have events at least 5 days a week covering beer, spirits, wine, and more. Here’s a chance for you to go to an intimate evening with an Errazuriz Wines Brand Ambassador.
Rémy Martin and The Heart Of Cognac Experience
Rémy Martin is visiting Calgary to offer up the Heart of Cognac Experience. It’s a VIP treatment where you learn about blending cognac, and the history of this luxury brand. Will you get notes of apricot and chocolate or maple syrup and pancakes? It all depends on your palette, but this wonderful lesson in luxurious history should be experienced.
Wine Wednesday #2: Joel Gott
2010 Joel Gott 815 Cabernet Sauvignon | < $20 [twitter]Joel Gott is one of the Three Thieves. Described as “the quintessential winery brat,” Gott is a fifth generation west coast winemaker and restaurateur. Along with...
Wine Wednesday #1: Charles & Charles
Charles & Charles | 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon / Syrah | < $20 [twitter]Charles & Charles is a wine collaboration founded in 2008 between Food & Wine Magazine 2009 Winemaker of the year, Charles Smith (K...
The 2012 Craft Beer Advent Calendar
The 2012 Craft Beer Advent Calendar was a new revelation to the world of craft beer drinkers. It was a fun surprise behind the door each day.
Wine Labels Are Bullshit
Wine packing the shelves at Petaluma Market – Buzz Bishop [twitter]If wine tasting is bullshit, then it follows the naming of wines has to be full of it too. Marketing. It’s all about marketing. I’ve…
Wine Tasting Is Bullshit
St Clement Tasting Room – by Buzz Bishop on Flickr [twitter]With apologies to Penn and Teller, it is – it really is. Just as with galleries that hang fingerpaintings from 4 year olds that have…
An Insider’s Guide To Calgary’s Wine Festivals
Here’s a guide to Calgary’s Wine Festivals: when they are, how to get tickets, and tips on how to get the best education for what most consider a drunkfest
What Are You Drinking New Year’s Eve?
[twitter]I absolutely love that video of 500 Days of Summer co-stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt singing What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? They’re not a real couple, but they should be. When it…
Bodegas Lustau Sherry Tasting with Christopher Cannan
“In North America, sherry needs an education. In the UK, sherry is a birthright,” remarked one of the attendees of a recent Bodegas Lustau tasting. Not being from the UK, I needed the education and Europvin‘s…
Gary Vaynerchuk In Seattle
[twitter]The sign outside the hall said “Please enter quietly, an author reading is in progress,” or something like that. There was no “reading”, there was no reason to be quiet. Gary Vaynerchuk was holding court…