Aging a Wine for 14 Years – Garnaxa, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon, Laurel, Daphne Glorian, Clos i Terrasses, DOQ Priorat, Spain, 2012, 15% abv.

Posted on October 25, 2026 by winellama

When I received my WSET Diploma at the graduation ceremony in London, England in 2015, we took a trip following the big event to Priorat DOQ in Spain.

Take a moment to read at this link how I managed, against all odds, to end up tasting wine with Daphne Glorian, the Queen of Priorat, at her home in Gratallops.

When we were there, Daphne had autographed and given me a bottle of the Laurel 2012 (which we tasted in 2015) to bring back to Canada.  I aged it in my cellar – until last night when I pulled it out for my 60th birthday.

When I tasted it in 2015 at 3 years old with Daphne, it had been ruby coloured and intensely mineral with black fruit, soy sauce and licorice – divine and yet, approachable.

In 2026 and 14 years old, this wine is a completely different beast.  The vintage has proven to be a standout, capturing an exceptional balance between power and acessibility.  Indeed, Wine Advocate gave it a 96 point rating.

Still slightly translucent, but now garnet, the nose and palate are intense and reflect red and black plum, figgy pudding, and late August blackberries.  Deep mulberry and boysenberry with cinnamon are especially evident.  The tannins are plush.  All parts of this beautifully developed wine are seamless.

In the height of its drinking window, we were lucky to experience it with Maryse’s delicious dinner – gently spiced back ribs, and mac & cheese with roasted beans.

If you’re holding this wine, or anything from this Priorat vintage, enjoy it now.

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What does an 86 year old Port wine taste like; Barros, Colheita 1940, Douro DOC, Portugal, 20% abv., 40 euros for 15 ml

Posted on October 25, 2026 by winellama

If you’ve every travelled to Portugal, you will have left knowing every street in the country  goes up hill, both ways.

There we were – at the bottom of yet another hill, when we decided to go into Garrafeira Soares, a well known fine wine and spirits store in Porto. 

There are many ways to experience Port in Porto, and we were leaving the next day to stay in the Douro Valley for three nights specifically to experience three types of quintas up close and personal.

But I was curious to know about back vintages, and Garrafeira Soares has some serious skin in that game.

Their options go back to 1910, and there were a few bottles open for tasting in a controlled wine dispenser.  I was most curious about the 1940 Barros Colheita which was available for 40 euros a 15 ml splash.  An entire bottle (if they had any to sell) would have set me back 750 euros.

The 1940 Barros Colheita Port is a rare single harvest tawny from the Douro which saw extended oxidative aging in oak for many decades before it was bottled.

My sample was the colour of chestnuts (which we saw all over Portugal) or a deep amber, with developed aromas and flavours of mandarin oil, dried apricot, full on maple syrup, walnut (we also saw these trees everywhere), hazelnut, toffee and butterscotch.

The acidity was lip smacking which makes me think this port wine has not seen the end of its window yet.

Could it go as long as 100 years?  Yes, I’ll bet it will.  With acidity and fruit like that still evident, it is likely to do so.

This wine made my day – and gave me strength to walk to the top of the next hill.

 

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The Truth About Mocktails; My Foray into a Non-Alcoholic Summer

Posted on September 11, 2026 by winellama

Last month, I decided to go alcohol free for 5 weeks. 

What? Why!? You are not the only one to have expressed surprise.  

Drinking good quality wine and other alcoholic beverages has been a personal goal for a while and I’d never been interested in learning more about mocktails or non-alcoholic options, save for enjoying the occasional pop or cold water.  

So, when I decided to undertake this personal experiment (mostly for weight loss, but also for other hoped benefits including improved sleep and perkier mornings), my loved ones were surprised, but very supportive.

We made trying to find non-alcoholic options a goal at a concert, a ball game and numerous restaurants.  Surprisingly, for all the talk these days about options and Gen Z being non-alky, it was challenging to find interesting and tasty alternatives.  And, they were all over-priced as far as I was concerned.  

In Victoria, one restaurant mocktail was billed as a take on a Negroni, but it tasted simply like iced tea.  And another restaurant told us they wouldn’t even give a second diet pop as a refill – customers had to pay for a second drink instead at C$4 each.  In many instances, I simply ordered water as a C$10 or more alternative seemed ridiculous.

Then half way through the month, we went to a store in Toronto, a pop up called Sobr on Yonge where they are “…making sure everyone enjoys fancy drinks”.  Now that’s what I was talking about!  There are Sobr stores located in four different provinces. 

We bought a selection of drinks, all priced in the C$7-8 range –

Phony White Negroni – from Brooklyn, NY, it’s a ready-to-drink mocktail with great marketing (the tiny bottle is adorable) and clocks in at 44 calories.  It’s made with quinine and citrus to taste adjacent to a white negroni.  The bitterness of the quinine tricks your palate into imagining Campari.  While it’s not terrible, drinking tonic and ice water with lime would accomplish the same and cost a lot less.  It was more akin to a gin and tonic as opposed to any sort of Negroni.

Ghia Mocktails (Lime) – from LA, another ready-to-drink mocktail.  To give the bitter vibe, theyve used rosemary, lime peel and ginger extracts, with acacia and vegetable juices.  So, at 50 calories, it actually seems to be healthy for you (and you can pronounce all the ingredients), but ultimately I found this tasted like beet juice.  I could get that at the juice bar for less and fresher, so… I didn’t even drink the second one.

Nova Non-Alcoholic wine-based sparkling drink – from Benjamin Bridge Winery, Nova Scotia with 0.5% abv with 70 calories.  This is the only one of the four drinks I actually enjoyed and it was probably because it tasted like a wine spritzer, the bubble lasted, and it had an aroma of wine from the 0.5%.  It wasn’t too sweet and had a cute shade of pink.  I could feel part of the party with this in my hand.  

Ultimately, the search continues.  The one drink I have had on repeat during this experiment is the Olé mocktails.  Thankfully Costco sells them – as does every other bar and grocery store.  I can pour one into a glass and pretend it’s something fizzy and fun.  The yellow can with mango flavour is my favourite.  And they’re so much better than the other widely found alternative by Sparkmouth.  

Save yourself the trouble and expense - this Corona Cero sucks.Since Dry Summer has drifted into Dry Fall, please share any feedback you may have.  I will start looking into non-alcoholic beers in the meantime.  Finally, if you have tried a Corona Cero (left picture), you’ll know never to do so again; they are horrible.

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Some Top BC Wineries to Visit: Tasting in the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys

Posted on July 30, 2026 by winellama


We have some lovely friends who have moved recently to the West Coast.  They’re trying to get to know British Columbia – so we decided to take them to some of the best spots.

That’s how we spent a week on the road together and a day wine tasting at wineries in the Similkameen Valley and on Skaha Lake near Okanagan Falls (OK Falls).

Our day started at Orofino Winery where Allison was our guide.  Orofino is an old favourite of mine, but I hadn’t been here for 13 years (2013).

It was time to catch up on what they’ve been doing.  We fell in love with the tetris pack Pinot Gris – perfect for hikes and picnics, and the Rousanne, 2024 made with Washington fruit because of that year’s BC deep freeze.

When Allison realized I’d done a review of the 2011 Riesling, she brought out a 2014 and we reveled in its development – petrol fumes, minerality and acidity, guava, pomelo and yellow grapefuit.

The Gamay, 2025 had been wild fermented and aged 2 years in old French oak.  Unfiltered and unfined it was a hazy ruby with cranberry and white pepper, while the Semi-Carbo Marechal Foch, 2025 was their first foray into that grape.  Highly crushable and with low tannins, this is a fabulous wine to drink with all sorts of things from pizza to burgers to ribs.

At this point, we had to get to our next tasting.  So we jumped into the car and raced down the road three minutes to Clos du Soleil – another of the original Similkameen wineries that I’ve stopped into many times.

They’ve really expanded since my last visit 13 years ago and we enjoyed a fabulous hands-on tasting with Amanda at the back of the winery, looking out at the mountain and vineyard. I highly recommend this experience if you have the time; book it in advance.

The Fumé Blanc made with Sauvignon Blanc was a big hit – and would be easy to pair with people and porches.  Also, a shout out to the Rosé, 2024 made saignée style with Sangiovese Yakima Valley AVA grapes on account of the killer frost.  What a seriously lovely wine – no hard corners on it, but instead a great mouth feel with nectarine and cranberry aromas and flavours.

We enjoyed everything but the most impressive red was the Winemaker Series Béton, 2o22.  Béton is French for concrete which is what the wine fermented and aged in before being bottled.  It’s a Cabernet Sauvignon-Cabernet Franc blend that has a beautiful blue and purple fruit palate underscored with lots of mountain minerality, black pepper and violets.

We dropped around briefly at Little Farm so I could buy some Chardonnay (3 different bottles), before heading over to Lake Skaha and Okanagan Falls for a rendezvous with Kelsey, the winemaker and one of the family owners at Echo Bay Winery.

Echo Bay is new to me, but it is a family owned property since the 1960s on which Kelsey, her family and her parents live.  Aunts and uncles also live nearby – and several friends work onsite as well.

It’s a beautiful property at which Kelsey began making the wine in 2017 after they built the barn and she returned from post grad wine studies at Lincoln University in New Zealand.  What a stellar set she has produced.

We enjoyed a tasting with her upstairs in the barn with the Else Pinot Noir, 2025 that spent two weeks on the skins and was wild fermented.  Translucent ruby, it smelled and tasted of red roses, strawberry, plums and star of anise.  The name “Else” refers to ‘something else’ as these grapes are ‘scavenged’ from a friend’s vineyard in nearby Oliver.

But Kelsey’s flagship red is the Synoptic – named for synoptic weather charts which represent the state of and changes in the weather which affect the grapes and consequently the wine produced each year. You can also see them on the walkway in the picture above.

I had used this wine for a special tasting and it was the one I was keen to learn more about.  A classic meritage Bordeaux-style blend, it is wild fermented, unfined, unfiltered and made with minimal intervention.  The result is a wine with fabulous structure, plenty of black and boysenberry, raspberry, fig, pepper and ginger spice.

We headed back to Osoyoos for a quick dip in the lake and some Mexican food at La Marquesa which has outstanding service and food.

Are you planning a trip to any of these wineries? Drop me a line and let me know if you’d like recommendations or more details.

Enjoy BC wine!

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Bratislava’s National Wine Salon Experience

Posted on July 29, 2026 by winellama

In April 2026, we visited Bratislava, Slovakia – smack dab in the centre of Europe, a brief riverboat trip down the Danube from Vienna, and located directly on what used to be a heavily militarized segment of the Iron Curtain between the Communist Eastern Bloc and neutral Austria.

Wine has been made in this region for over 2,000 years, but since the creation of 24 indigenous grape crossings in the 1950s, the industry has undergone a true renaissance.

Part of this re-engineering has been the poetic naming of the varietals – the whites are Devin castle, after which an aromatic white grape is named.named after castles and towns, and the reds after rivers.  For example, Devin Castle (left) is the name of an aromatic white.

Slovakians are proud of their wines (80% are white), and have created the National Wine Salon which is in the cellars of the Apponyi Palace where the Museum of Viticulture is.  Located in the heart of Bratislava’s Old Town, we escaped a rainy and cold day to take in a tasting with Šimon, one of the Sommeliers working there.

This is a living, breathing set of the top 100 Slovakian wines; every October there is a blind tasting competition to pick these top wines from the 400 Slovakian wineries in 6 wine regions.

I tried three whites and three reds, but decided upon a bottle of Devin, Cintavý & Pisarčik, Viničné, Slovakia, 2024, 14.5% abv. Fully dry but with a nose of lychee, green melon and white flowers, and a palate of white peach, this wine was a harbinger of Spring.  This petite winery produces only about 12,000 bottles each year at its vineyards located just outside Bratislava.

I chose a red named for the Danube – the Dunaj, Rudava and Cabernet Sauvignon blend, Pinta, Velkeer Winery, Nitra Region, Slovakia, 2022, 14.5% abv.

Aged in Slovakian oak for two years, it shines with sour cherries, red currant, blueberry and green fern.  Lively and crunchy, fresh and vibrant – it comes from a small family owned winery located between Bratislava and Budapest.

Perhaps most refreshingly of all, there was a robust and interesting tasting for non-drinkers available.  Brian thoroughly enjoyed trying four different grape juices, all made with Slovakian varietals.  We left with a couple of bottles of the non-alcoholic white grape juice by Matyšák Winery. 

If you are looking for an interesting activity in Bratislava’s Old Town, this is highly recommended. 

 

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Top Wine Picks: Notes from Recent Tastings

Posted on July 27, 2026 by winellama

What a terrible problem to have – too many wines, shrinking drinking windows, and not enough time made to write about them or catalogue the tasting notes clogging up my phone.  

Here is a synopsis of some of the better drinking I’ve done lately. 

Pinot Noir, The Eyrie Vineyards, South Block Original Vines, McMinnville AVA, Willamette Valley, Oregon, 12.5% abv., 2014, US$200
We visited Eyrie Vineyards in 2019 when we retired and before the US went crazy and elected… well, you know what happened. 

Anyhoo… the tasting was epic and long, and I decided (without asking about cost) to buy this wine.  I was a little gobsmacked when I went to pay for it but was too deep in at that point to stop.  So, I saved it for a rainy day, so to speak.  

When I finally located it at the back of the wine cave, I worried I’d missed the window and didn’t know if decanting would hurt or help it at that point.  Luckily, it wasn’t too late.  In fact, it was very good timing; this wine is from such a strong vintage, and of such high quality, it had several years of good life in it yet.

On the eyes it was a dusty garnet, but the nose and palate were still relatively youthful with plenty of bright Byng and sour cherry, pomegranate, green swordfern, forest floor and cedar frond. The tannins were plush and soft.

Absolutely lovely, completely west coast – I paired it with salmon and brown rice with roasted peppers.  This wine was made in 2014, but was opened in March, 2026 at 12 years old.

We also took a trip this spring to Central Europe, with a stop in Hungary.  While there, I tried so many wines I’d studied, but hadn’t had the opportunity to taste. 

When we went to the central market in Budapest, I bought a 6 Puttonyos Tokaji from a lovely young person named Yvette (at the stall shown below).  

Furmint, Tokaji Aszù, Toth Zoltan, 6 Puttonyos, Hungary, 12% abv., US$57
This beautiful wine is viscous with deep legs and an even deeper hue of gold.  The aromas and flavours show orange blossom, marmalade, ripe apricot, lemon curd and jasmine tea.  While not in cloying in the least, it is fully off dry with high acidity and a long, developed finish. 

Tokaji is one of the most amazing drinks made by humankind (it has been around since the 1600s) and this one was no exception.  I enjoyed it before the opera (as one does), and then over the next several days.  

Also in March, we had some friends over for dinner – we started with a bubble and finished with some Burgundy.  

Chardonnay, Barrat et Masson, Fleur de Craie, Extra Brut, Champagne DoC, France, Disgorged 2017, 12.5% abv., US$50

This was a very delicate champagne with a long lasting, fine mousse.  On the eyes, it was medium gold with a nose and palate of yeasty French bread, yellow apple, dry grass, yellow plum, and apricots.  Stunning.

We continued with Pinot Noir, Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugner, Château de Chambolle-Musigny Nuits Saint Georges AC, Premier Cru, Clos de la Marechale, Burgundy, France, 13% abv., 2011

Translucent garnet and opened at 15 years old, this wine had a nose and palate of fresh cherries plus green licorice fern, red twizzlers, dusty rose petal, umami with finely grained tannins.  It was a perfect pair to chicken with shallots and tomatoes in white wine, tarragon and Dijon mustard.  


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Why Tracking Your Wine Journey Matters – Viura, Viña Gravonia, White Crianza, López de Heredia, Rioja DOC, Spain, 2004, 12.5% abv.

Posted on July 9, 2026 by winellama

This is EXACTLY why I keep track of the wines I enjoy.

I opened a bottle of this wine 11 years ago in 2015 – and then again in February 2026.  Now I can compare the two – and congratulate myself for my great memory, which at this point in my life is no small thing. 

This is my favourite kind of wine.  I love these classics – few wines are made in this traditional fashion. Why?  They’re challenging, different, unique, unusual.  I’ve opened up a 2000 version of this in the past, and now two of them from the 2004 crush and bottling.

The first bottle was opened at 11 years old in 2015.  As a white Rioja, it’s made of Viura grapes, but in this classic style, it’s extremely Chenin-like.  A deep shade of lemon, it has intense aromas of beeswax, lanolin, Meyer lemon and loads of sherry-like flor.  gravonia 2004

Dry on the palate, it shows refreshing acidity, medium body and flavours of sherry, lanolin and wet wool, bruised apple, almond and yellow plum.

While the nose is intense, the palate is somewhat muted, but the elegance and complexity make up for any perceived imbalance.

The second bottle was opened more recently in February 2026 – at a full 22 years of age.  Truthfully, I worried I’d missed the drinking window – after all, these are long-lived wines, but that may have been pushing it.

Thankfully not.  The extra 11 years of ageing had turned the colour of the wine from deep lemon to deep onion skin.  The nose was even more pronounced with significant Amontillado Sherry, composted yellow apple, salted brine and butterscotch pudding.

The palate opened up over two hours to offer coconut and marzipan with dried orange peel and apricots.  I drank this ever so slowly, savouring every last drop.

It’s always a treat to open a López de Heredia.  Thanks for following my blog.

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Pinot Noir, Clone Collection Dijon 777, CODE Wines, Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley VQA, British Columbia, Canada, 13% abv., 2022

Posted on July 2, 2026 by winellama

I had wanted to visit CODE Wines for some time. They’re relatively new to the Okanagan, BC wine scene, but they landed in it with accolades and awards, and I’d heard nothing but wonderful reports of them and the quality of their wines.

We had planned a trip through wine country to introduce our replanted (from Toronto) friends to BC wines, so I was in charge of selecting some premium properties. CODE was at the very top of that list.

Shay grew up on a Saskatchewan farm, so the prospect of turning into a viticulturalist was not, perhaps, as daunting to him as it would be to others (although they may argue this now that they’re in the thick of it). He and Harlee made this switch in 2016 and then moved full time to the vineyard in 2021. Harlee has kept her day job, but Shay is immersed in the grapes in all ways imaginable.

In a short period of time, they’ve established themselves as premier viticulturalists and vignerons of primarily Burgundy and Rhône varietals. We joined them for a tasting on our day in Oliver and OK Falls.

If you’re into micro-petit wineries that are hands on and full steam on every task with only a couple (or even one) employees, CODE Wines is for you. Shay does everything – from viticulture and vineyard management, to harvest (with some close friends, neighbours and family members), to all the winemaking and bottling tasks. They produce about 1,000 cases a year – let that sink in.

To make this experience even better, CODE is their surname. Seriously. They’re marketing geniuses. They concentrate on producing different clones of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir – the genetic codes of the vines being of utmost importance. Get it?

Our tasting consisted of four wines, the first being their 2025 Estate Single Clone Chardonnay at 12.9% abv., and only 130 cases made. Malo was blocked half way through and it was lightly fined and filtered. This is a beautiful, clean Chardonnay with abundant acidity, fresh Granny Smith apple, lemon zest, apple pie, white flowers and summer meadow aromas and flavours. Yes, of course I bought some.

Second up was the 2024 Pinot Noir Cuvée, Grower Series made from a blend of Dijon 113, 115, 777 and UC Davis clone 13. These grapes came from just south of the border in Chelan, Washington, as this was the winter of the terrible vine freeze. Translucent ruby turning garnet, this has a nose of Byng cherry and red twizzlers with flavours of pronounced cherry with mushroom. There’s a beautiful basket of support for this delicate and elegant 13% abv wine.

We also tasted the 2024 Syrah made with grapes also from Rattlesnake AVA in Chelan, Washington. What a lovely, sumptuous wine – all deep ruby with a nose and palate of deep boysenberry and crunchy raspberry. Delicious.

The pièce de résistance though was the 2022 bottle of Dijon 777 Pinot Noir. A gorgeous and layered example of their Pinot program, this wine is garnet with lightly developed sour and Byng cherry peppered with mushroom and cedar. Clean and delicious.

I’m sorry to say that was the last bottle available. Shay was very generous and we got very lucky! But I will advise you to run (don’t walk) to your closest private liquor store and buy whatever you can find of these wines. Or better yet, become one of their wine club members; they ship to most places in Canada. I did.

CODE wines are the real deal – and the Codes are lovely humans to boot. Finally, their dog Poppy is probably the sweetest winery dog I’ve met yet. We almost left with her that day.

Happy drinking.

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Chenin Blanc, Le Haut-Lieu, Demi-Sec, Domaine Huet, Vouvray, Loire Valley, France, 2015, 13% abv, US$50

Posted on July 2, 2026 by winellama

When we visited the Loire, and went to Vouvray and Domaine Huet in June 2014, I fell in love quite seriously with these wines.

Then, when I did my Court of Master Sommelier, level one exam in August 2014, I nailed a blind tasting verbal note of a dry Domaine Huet Chenin Blanc – its unmistakable lamb’s wool, honeycomb, green grass and mineral profile screamed out to me.

Also, I am always in awe of any property that commits to and maintains their Demeter certification; it’s so much work and an extraordinary commitment.

As a result of this, the largest portion of my sleeping bottles are from Huet. My collection of Le Mont and Le Haut-Lieu is incomplete, but extends back to a few bottles from 2002, with most falling in the 20-teens.

This bottle was opened recently when one of my daughters was home. Such a special visit deserved an equally outstanding wine moment.

Deep, translucent gold with aromas and a demi-sec off dry palate of mandarin orange, lemon souffle, ripe apricot, quince and dry straw this wine is beautifully developed with a viscous sweet and sour electricity.

What a happy drinking moment, smack dab in the middle of its perfect drinking window at 11 years old.

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A Toast to Memories – Pinot Blanc (Weisser Burgunder), “Kalkgestein”, Weingut Friedrich Becker, Deutscher Qualitatswein trocken, Pfalz, Germany, 13% abv., 2023 and Merlot, Château Fombrauge, Bernard Magrez, Saint Emilion AC, Bordeaux, Grand Cru, France, 15% abv., 2009, C$55

Posted on June 1, 2026 by winellama

My mom would have turned 84 this May, so to remember her, we joined with one of my sisters, her husband and a niece to enjoy dinner at one of Mom’s favourite restaurants, toast her and laugh over some great memories.

The first wine we opened was brought to me recently by an old friend whom I’d met while backpacking in Indonesia back in 1990. This German Pinot Blanc is masterful – the colour of straw with glints of green – it has gorgeous fresh aromas and flavours of white flowers and early summer honeysuckle, white grapefruit, apricot, lemon and lime. Its acidity is mouth watering, its minerality uplifting and its freshness and fruit superb.

Our second bottle in mom’s honour was a super stunning mostly Merlot (80) with Cabernet Franc (12) and Cabernet Sauvignon (8) from Bordeaux’s Right Bank. An absolute powerhouse of a wine, this is the epitome of what is meant when Merlot-based wines are said to offer gorgeous, plush mouthfeel and sultry tannins.

This deep garnet wine is outstanding in terms of its flavours and aromas which show delicious intensity at every turn; iris and violet, blue and black berries, the deepest purple plum, and cinnamon, clove and nutmeg riding on a soft leather saddle. The velvety tannins melt in your mouth, and the finish is long and developed. I bought this wine in 2009, so was thrilled to open it after 17 years of careful storage.

Eighty-four years of age, a 36 year old friendship, a 17 year old wine and innumerable memories – all in honour of one mom.

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