I received the following six wines from Tinhorn Creek:
Tinhorn Creek Pinot Gris 2022 (Golden Mile, Okanagan Valley)
Straw colour; lightly toasty, spicy, peach pit nose; medium-bodied, peachy-lemony flavour rounded with oak. A well-balanced wine. Drink now or through 2024. (90) Continue reading
Peter Dim rolling out the barrel
Friday, November 3rd: Dropped into a new wine bar/wine store in Port Dalhousie on Lock Street. Robbie, the young owner – he also has a location in St. Catharines at 39 James Street – was awaiting the arrival of two empty barrels from Peter Dim. Peter farms 22-acres of vines just outside of the village of Jordan. He produces Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet. A couple, already seated, offered me a glass of his Dim Wine Co. West Bank Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. And very good was it too.
Other wines tasted: Continue reading
Front row (l to r): Cathy Martin, Deborah Aspler, Helen Hatzis (President), Steven Campbell; back row (l to r): Bernard Stramwasser, Garrett Herman, Tony Aspler. Not present: Liz Gallery, Geddy Lee, Hans Gerhardt, Doris Miculan Bradley.
Thursday, October 26th: A fund-raiser for Access Education Guatemala (which Grapes for Humanity Canada had helped to fund for 13 years). Deborah and I were being honoured and our hosts Adrienne Rosen and Myra White (the founders of Access Education) sent a limo to take us to Lula Lounge in Toronto – complete with a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Champagne on ice! At the fundraiser, there was a two-way link with one of the schools GFH helped build and a video. Deborah and I were presented with a plaque to mark the occasion. At the dinner we drank Pierres Blanches Chardonnay (from the Pays d’Oc) and Bodegas Bilbainas Viña Pomal Crianza 2019 from Rioja. We were not successful with our bids in the silent auction, unfortunately, but it was a memorable evening. Continue reading
Tuesday, October 17th: Deborah and I drove to Buffalo Airport to take a JetBlue flight to JFK New York. The purpose of the two-day trip is to have dinner with our cousin Paul and to attend the 20th anniversary dinner of Grapes for Humanity Global to be held at a private apartment on East 57th Street. Continue reading
What’s going on? Couldn’t whip up much enthusiasm this week as am heart-sick over what is happening to Israel (on top of what is happening in the Ukraine).
But I am off to New York City tomorrow for a Grapes for Humanity fund-raising event, so I hope to be distracted from the news.
Wines tasted with dinner this week:
 | Bernie McCarthy on The World’s Top Winemakers of… |
 | JACQUELINE C DAVIES on A Wine Lover’s Diary, part 911… |
| A Wine Lover’s Diary… on A Wine Lover’s Diary, part 878… | |
 | michaelnachuk on A Wine Lover’s Diary, part 894… |
 | Arthur on A Wine Lover’s Diary, part 895… |
