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Do you have a favourite winery? Recently someone asked me this very question and I found it challenging to answer. For me there is not just one, singular winery that is my favourite, I have many favourites, and each for different reasons. When I start thinking about my favourites though, one that quickly comes to…
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Ancestral method sparkling wine is produced by halting a wine’s fermentation and allowing it to finish fermenting in the bottle. While the yeast feast on the remaining sugar in the fermenting wine, they produce carbon dioxide, which creates bubbles in the finished wine. In the fall, Whispering Horse Winery released three ancestral method sparkling wines.…
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Over the weekend we put up our Christmas decorations. Whilst we decorated, we enjoyed our very last bottle of wine from Whispering Horse. Whispering Horse is currently sold out, but luckily they are set to release FOUR new, ancestral method sparkling wines. The release will include L’Acadie (dry, crisp and white); Pinot Gris (dry, earthy…
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Ever since Laurent Fadanni and Melissa Giesbrecht released their first vintage of wine from Whispering Horse in 2017, they have attracted quite a devoted fan base, often selling out of their small lot wines very quickly. This Saturday, June 26th, Whispering Horse will be releasing two new wines, their first vintage of La Crescent WILD…
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On Saturday, November 28th Whispering Horse Winery is hosting a festive and COVID-safe wine release. They will be releasing their 2016 Sparkling Seyval Blanc (32 cases produced) along with two wines from their new ‘WILD’ line – the 2020 L’Acadie Pet-Nat (9 cases produced) and the 2019 L’Acadie Wild (11 cases produced). To ensure everyone’s safety,…
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I have mentioned before that one of the things I love most about Whispering Horse Winery is that they are not trying to be the Okanagan or 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. Proprietors Melissa…
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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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