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I have been drinking a lot more Rosé lately, including the 2019 CedarCreek Estate Pinot Noir Rosé with its notes of cranberry and rhubarb. All this Rosé has me craving rhubarb, so I made Melissa Clark’s Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake, which was featured in the New York Times. I followed the recipe exactly, except that I…
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Have you been cooking or baking more while in social isolation? If so, what have you been making? This weekend we made our own pasta, meatballs and marinara sauce and paired it with the 2016 Upper Bench Estate Grown Pinot Noir ($41.40). Upper Bench Winery & Creamery in Naramata is offering free shipping on all…
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How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? In my household, we use Valentine’s Day as a good excuse to make a nice meal at home and open an extra special bottle of wine, like the 2016 Terroir Series Pinot Noir from Alexana Winery. At the end of last summer, I had the opportunity to sit down…
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One of the things that I love about Whispering Horse Winery is that they are not trying to be the Okanagan or the Napa Valley. Whispering Horse is located in Yarrow, BC and they are focussed on showcasing the uniqueness of Fraser Valley terroir using 100% estate grown grapes. The proprietors of Whispering Horse Winery…
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In 1858, during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, the Hudson’s Bay Company made plans to build a post across the Fraser River from the town of Lillooet, British Columbia. This post would act as a supply outlet for the influx of people who were flocking to the area, and the post was to be called…
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I rolled into Venturi Schulze Vineyards just after 10:00 on a Friday morning – what a wonderful way to start the day! Venturi Schulze is located in Cobble Hill, about a fifty-minute drive outside of Victoria on Vancouver Island. If you miss the turn off from the highway at Vineyard Road, as I did, just…