Calona Vineyards Celebrates 75 Years!
 

Last week Calona Vineyards celebrated 75 years!
From prohibition then sacramental wines for the Catholic Church to fruit wines, past the pull up of Labrusca vines and the re-planting of vitus vinifera vines to British Columbia's modern day, world class wines...

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 Calona Artist Series Sovereign Opal, Okanagan BC, 2006
 

Calona would probably create riots among Sovereign Opal fans if they ever stopped making it!
Truly aromatic with super-ripe aromas of honey and stone fruit with a fragrant daub of white flowers.
Smooth, rounded and slightly oily on the palate with earthy- honeyed nuances, grapefruit and warm spiced flavours.

$12.49

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 The Bounty of British Columbia
 touring Naramata wine country...

...this vintage is more "Okanagan meets the South of France" in style with strawberries, sour cherry, tobacco, sweet spices and herbs.
On the palate it's fresh and clean with more warm cherry/berry flavours, pomelo citrus and leather with a spiced finish.
Ahhh... its going to be another great rose summer!

$18.90 private wine stores

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 Keep rating those wines!
 

I love seeing those pink stars appearing on the wines I have reviewed.
Since you (the readers) are the ones tasting the wines, you should have your input too.


The average score will always appear and as soon as you score the wine the results are tallied!

See the latest reviews and start rating wines... 

 Noshing around the Okanagan
 some of Wine Diva's favourite edible experiences...

• Theo's
• Hooded Merganser
• Bonfire at the Cove
• Red Rooster
• Salty's Beach House
• fruit galettes at the Penticton farmers market

Read more... 

 CityFood
 Spring 2007

Hot off the press...
Pick up your copy now.

• Eating Trends for 2007
• 55 new places to dine
• 17 Wine Diva reviews
• and my "wine season recap"

 

 A Wine Diva Feature - Shelf Talkers
 Perfect for Agents and Retailers

Shelf Talkers are perfect for agents who need them quickly and don't have in house printing. Or for all you Retailers-private beer and wine stores in and outside of Vancouver who read Wine Diva religiously, carry the products I review and want to have your own "Pink & Cheeky" Wine Diva talkers.
You can print them in black and white or in colour. (Just remember to set you advanced printer settings and check off "colour").
There are four per page-all different-and they print out exactly as you see them on the page.
You can see all the available shelf talkers by clicking on the Shelf Talkers menu item on the left side of the site. If a wine review has a shelf talker, it a link will appear in the review. If you want to know how to get a shelf talker made for your wine contact me at daenna@winediva.ca

See all Wine Diva reviews that have Shelf Talkers.... 

 More from Naramata
 

• Hillside
• La Frenz
• Poplar Grove
• Red Rooster
• Township 7
• Kettle Valley
• Lake Breeze
• Laughing Stock
• Therapy
• Van Westen

Read reviews from all these wineries... 

 EAT! Vancouver
 The Everything Food+Cooking Festival

This annual event returns to BC Place Stadium on May 25, 26, 27
Anna Olson and Chef Rob Feenie will be on the Food Network Celebrity Stage and there will be loads of food to taste, hundreds of exhibitors and international flavours to discover.

But don't forget to visit the Grapes & Hops Stage hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen (aka Wine Diva) sip wine, sake or beer and participate and learn during the ongoing seminars by local libation educators and writers like; John Schreiner, Colin Jack and Paul Watkin...

Read details on the Grapes & Hops Stage... 

 Upcoming
 A look into what's coming onWine Diva

• More new BC releases
• Touring the Okanagan part 2
• A rose by any other name