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Vancouver Visit 3: Pacific Culinary Institute and Cassini Cellars, Pinot Noir

Posted on January 8, 2015 by waywardwine

Out of desperation, we reserved lunch for Half Off Wine Wednesday. Online research found, finally, that wines equaled BC winery prices (albeit still twice US retail). More importantly, the Pacific Culinary Institute sourced food locally. The food should meld well … Continue reading →

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Vancouver Visit 2: Blackwater

Posted on January 6, 2015 by waywardwine

Waywardwine continues to explore drinks in Vancouver BC with Blackwater, which is exactly as it sounds: water that is black. Well, if we’re honest, Blackwater looks brown, akin to Guinness. But I imagine Brownwater didn’t fly with marketing at Innovations Corp. … Continue reading →

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Vancouver Visit: Mt. Boucherie, Family Estate Winery, Ehrenfelser, Okanagan Valley BC VQA 2012 17.99 ca

Posted on January 5, 2015 by waywardwine

Wayward Wine is presently on location in Vancouver, BC in Canada exploring its wines (EU Austerity Drinking Tour posts will resume shortly). The challenge was adjusting to BC sticker shock. The province tightly controls pricing and taxes alcohol to the … Continue reading →

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Hunting for Mozart in Salzburg and Zweigelt Red Wine from Nittnaus, Burgenland, Austria

Posted on December 29, 2014 by waywardwine

Our second day out in Salzburg includes a visit to Mozart’s Wohnhause, where he grew up.

But entry costs a fortune. Instead, we end up spending over an hour in the house’s research library enjoying a Mozart primer narrated by Kenneth Branagh for free.

Swimming in Classical music and Mozart’s love-hate (really hate) relationship with Salzburg, we pop over to his birthplace: Continue reading →

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Salzburg 2: Weingut Türk, Grüner Veltliner, Kremser Weinberge, Kremstal, Austria 2010

Posted on December 26, 2014 by waywardwine

Snow flops on Salzburg rooftops, but we stay cosy inside our hostel and watch Julie Andrews declare these hills be alive. So while in Salzburg (see last post), we must try Austria’s native white grape: Grüner Veltliner. A bit too … Continue reading →