Woodinville Wine Update » Canada

Canadian Ice Wine: Quail’s Gate

Shona Milne — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:12:00 +0000

I just saw a story on King 5 Evening Magazine about Canadian Ice Wine. I just love ice wine and late harvest wines and I don’t really like sweet wines. I would rather pass on dessert after dinner for a glass of ice wine. I like to think of it as dessert in a glass. Quails Gate in the Okanagan is the featured winery. I’ll be looking for this on my next trip north.

Tweet This Post

2010 Olympics: Canadian Wines

Shona Milne — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:24:15 +0000

I was incredibly lucky to head up to Vancouver for a couple of days for the 2010 Winter Olympics. I did manage to attend the Men’s Sweden vs. Finland (3-0) and a Women’s USA vs. Sweden (9-1) hockey games. In between Olympic events I managed to drink some good Canadian wines. When in Canada, drink Canadian wines!

One of my usual Canadian wines is Jackson-Triggs Vintners. Their Cabernet Sauvignon Proprietors Reserve is great to drink by itself or with food. I always know I can find easily find this wine while visiting Canada. I was happy to see on the bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon that I was drinking that they are the Official Wine Supplier of the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics Winter Games.

While out walking all over the town between games I ended up at The Keg in Yaletown. Needing a glass of something to sustain myself I asked about what Canadian wines they had by the glass. I ended up with a glass of Blasted Church 2007 Syrah from the Okanagan Falls, BC. It has nice peppery and red fruit flavors with a long finish. It’s a great sipper while watching an Olympic hockey game.

Go Team USA! Go Team Canada!

Tweet This Post

Canadian Tax: Hinder Border States Wine Sales

Shona Milne — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:05:29 +0000

From a story on Wines & Vines, Senator Charles Schumer(D) of New York is proposing to fight Canada’s border tax policies on wine. Currently, Canadian citizens must be out of the county for 48 hours before they can bring back a maximum of two bottles of wine duty free. A $20 bottle of wine can have $16-20 of duty on it. This would be a great thing for Washington wine tourism.

Tweet This Post

Hong Kong Wines: Washington Connection

Shona Milne — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:07:11 +0000

From CNN news this morning is a story about an unconventional winery business model. They choose grapes from all over the world, including Washington, and have the grapes flash frozen before shipping to Hong Kong. Their 2007 vintage was made with Washington grapes. 8th Estate Winery is the first winery in Hong Kong.

Tweet This Post

Okanagan Winemakers: Re-Using Bottles

Shona Milne — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:07:31 +0000

A green idea for the wine industry has been proposed in Canada. The Penticton Western News has an article about South Okanagan wineries that may start a program where they sterilize and re-use wine bottles as a cost saving measure and to decrease bottles in landfill.

Tweet This Post