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An old-vine Pinot Blanc crafted from grapes grown on vines 25 years plus.  Alsatian in style, the Pinot Blanc has gorgeous aromas of apple, mandarin, and some citrus notes.  Good acidity with apricot, some tropical fruits and a slight minerality.  Very good with some fresh spot prawns!  Another bottle please.  

Saturna Island Family Estate Winery’s Winemaker, Homan Haftbaradaran, has made some welcome changes at Saturna Island winery; one being sourcing some of the grapes off-island to develop varieties not grown on the Saturna. Haftbaradaran sourced some of the grapes for the 2011 Riesling wines from Okanagan Falls and from the Similkameen’s Cawston from sunrise vineyards owned by [...]

A zippy little Sauv Blanc with 88% Sauv Blanc and 12% Semillon in the bottle.  Straw colour with tropical fruit and grassy aromas and flavours.  Some minerality.  Fairly short length but a nice sipper with some seafood dishes, and a great one with fresh oysters.

Grapes from Spierhead’s Gentleman Farmer Vineyard are used in the production of this clean, crisp wine. Aromas of peach, citrus, lime peel, honey and some floral notes jump from the glass. On the palate there are flavours of green apple, citrus notes, peach and some nice minerality. This will be a good wine for the [...]

From 100 per cent Marlborough Fruit this pale yellow wine has aromas of grass, gooseberries, citrus and tropical fruit.  On the palate the wine has concentrated tropical notes, citrus, minerality and noticeable but balanced acidity.  It’s a richer style of Sauv Blanc produced with lees stiring.  I love pairing with oysters, grilled scallops and ceviche, or sipping [...]

I love a good Riesling whether it by bone dry or on the sweeter side as long as the wine has a balanced acidity.  This number is what’s considered off-dry, or spatlese in Germany, containing 19 grams of residual sugar.  The wine is impressive; the vines used have an average age of 31 year, and [...]

This family run winery based in Paarl, South Africa has over 200 hectares under vine. This red is a combination of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Shiraz and Malbec.  The wine isn’ made every year, only in those that produce the best fruit.  On the nose there’s lots of ripe red berry, cassis, plum, and [...]

The Wines of Argentina came to town and while I would have liked to have a bit (actually a lot) more time in the tasting room, I did, however, manage to source out a few favourites that would be welcome additions to your fall tasting line up.           2010 mapema Sauvignon [...]