Tasting Room Radio

Jason Parkes/Robbie Hundertmark (The Hatch). Also Ron Kubek. Lightning Rock THE SHOW Jason Parkes (Team Leader)  The Hatch  (West Kelowna) Robbie Hundertmark (Wing Man)  The Hatch      The box arrived from Jason Parkes Customs. Filled with: The Dynasty White  – Wow B Secco Hobo Series Gamay MMXXI Clarity at the Waters Edge Clash of the Tannins...

Our Guest is Kerri Wyse-McNolty  VP Burrowing Owl Vineyards and co-creator of their fine Cookbook. (with Author and Wine Writer Jennifer Schell Lirag)   THE SHOW   The Question they most often hear in their tasting room is …..”what should I pair with this wine?”   So Kerri Wyse and her team collaborated with award...

Full show Interview with Anthony Gismondi: Co-founder of The Nationals!   THE SHOW   The 2024 National Wine Awards of Canada wrapped up in June in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Founded by Canadian wine experts David Lawrason and Anthony Gismondi, ‘The Nationals’ are the largest and most respected Canadian wine competition. This year 22 judges tasted...

THE SHOW   Our last segments of  2024 VanWineFest with DJ Kearney  and  an Okanagan reconnect with Sandra Oldfield The Vancouver International Wine Festival (#45) has come and gone but the interviews live on….for at least this week. I’m joined by my fourth & final co-host, the one and only DJ Kearney.  Educator, mentor, leader,...

    Featuring guest hosts and wine specialists  Kelcie Jones and Michaela Morris. The feature region of the 2024 Vancouver International Wine Festival was Italy. There were  71 wineries representing 13 different Italian regions, from Sicily in the far south to Trentino-Alto Adige in the north. There were hundreds of autochthonous grape varieties and each...

The 45th VanWineFest Part One   THE SHOW The press release says: It’s the largest combined consumer and trade wine show in North America. And one of the biggest and oldest in the World.  From Feb 24 to March 3. Eight days, 42 events, 12 countries,  149 participating wineries, 71 from feature region Italy, 1,...

THE SHOW Last week we featured The Cowichan Wineries August Festival . This week  we reconnect with the wineries of the Naramata Bench. 15  interviews with winemakers and principals. Like many others in the BC wine community, The Naramata Bench was also hit with heartbreaking losses of their prime vineyards due to another  Winter deep...

There’s a buzz going on about the Wineries of the Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island. It started when Unsworth Winery was purchased by key members of the Jackson Family (Kendall Jackson, Napa).  Then  months later it was revealed that the same family members had purchased Blue Grouse, just down the road. So… A California wine family...

Kathy Malone Hillside Winemaker – Naramata Bench and a walk around 3rd annual Langford Beer Festival.   THE SHOW   Two of BC’s wine originals. Hillside Estate Winery. The third winery built and planted on the Naramata Bench. Our guest – Kathy Malone, The Chief Winemaker since 2008. Kathy bring three outstanding wines : Chef’s...

2024 Releases – Tightrope (Naramata) and Bonterra Organic  (Mendocino)   THE SHOW   Lyndsay O’Rourke – Winemaker at Tightrope Winery (Naramata Bench) (Lyndsay and Graeme O’Rourke)   Tightrope Winery is a small, family-run, sustainable winery on the Naramata Bench. A true Labour of love for owners Graham (viticulturist) and Lyndsay O’Rourke (winemaker). Their vineyards on...