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The growing, harvesting and creating of BC Wine is very often referred to as "a community" If so, all the neighbors, in-laws and family branches gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre recently for Swirl Wine Expo 2026. Presented by the Wine Growers of BC, the event featured over 70 provincial wineries pouring their new releases for the community including: Wine Directors, sommeliers, bartende...

Swirl Around BC Wine Expo 2026 - Part One It's had various titles but the one word that's always there is SWIRL. It's presented by Wine Growers of BC to showcase their various winemakers, wineries, regions, GI's, sub-GIs, and varietals. Those invited are wine store staff, restaurant staff including sommeliers,  wine directors, front-of-house, wait staff and wine media. It's a serious gathering. Th...

Township 7 winemaker Mary McDermott returns to Tasting Room Radio.   When we started this food and wine adventure,  it was from a studio in a barn on the Naramata Bench. The closest vineyard out the windows was Township 7.   I was determined to ask questions & learn from those around me. The people actually doing the planting, pruning, growing, harvesting and blending.   That’s...

New Releases, Restaurant and Accommodation. The Dhaliwal Sisters lead the way. Kismet Estate Winery is entering the heart of Harvest with growing national and international recognition under Head Winemaker Manpreet Dhaliwal, Canada’s first and only South Asian female head winemaker. Since becoming Head Winemaker in 2023 at age 26, Manpreet has earned 26 national and international wine awards, incl...

A Directors Cut,  in the film/TV world,  is the version of a film or series that is the Director's version of what she/he dreamed of making. Not the one the studio made. The Director's Cut allows creative freedom, which is priceless A Winemaker's Cut is the wine the winemaker intended to make before ownership stepped. Thus, Michal Mosny's Winemakers Cut wines are exactly what he intended to make,...

Originally aired May 16, 2026. Naramata Bench Pours Spring Wines in Vancouver. (Part One)   For almost 20 years the wineries of the Naramata Bench above Penticton have showcased their Spring releases for the food and wine trade and general public in Vancouver. The 2026 gathering was May 7 at the Vancouver Community College near Gastown.   16 Naramata Bench Wineries came to pour – they we...

Our Guest for the entire Tasting Room Radio is Senior Winemaker Jeff Del Nin at Quails Gate and the Plume Collection! Jeff has studied chemistry for a great deal of his life. It's prepared him to use that knowledge to craft wines. Jeff Del Nin From the choosing, planting, growing and crafting of wines. Through Bourassa Valley, Burrowing Owl, Church and State and Road 13. All successful wineries se...

Wonderful response to last week’s Naramata pour in Vancouver Part One. If the feedback is any indication, they are going to have a banner year. Now comes Part Two Our last two guests from the Naramata Bench Vancouver Spring Wines pour are Matt Mikulic –   President and Winemaker – Three Sisters Winery Matthew and his wife Rebecca both have three sisters…thus the name of the winery and...

Sunday Sept 13 Naramata Bench welcomes back one of their most popular gatherings The Tailgate Party.      Meanwhile… Across Okanagan Lake,  Summerland, Peachland and Bottleneck Drive are open for business. Some wineries  are rebuilding lost structures or planning replants of vines BUT they are open and you are welcomed. The Summerland region battled a terrible summer fire and most of the win...

Hello all:   Nothing fancy here, my friends. No wine reviews. No food pairings. No tasting notes. This particular Tasting Room Radio episode is all about the recent wildfires in and around Summerland, Peachland and parts of  West Kelowna. Over 62,000 acres of fire damage. 150 structures damaged or destroyed. Livestock released and saved. Some lost. 1000’s of residents evacuated. Pentict...