Wine-ing?

Are you a Wine-o?  No, I definitely am not referring to whiners.  (Not this time anyway.)  I mean wine.  I enjoy wine.  Mostly red - but every time I partake in the BC Wine Fest with a group of friends, I usually bring back more white than red - because BC's white wine is fantastic!

So the other day, my friend *Chuck and I were discussing some wine we'd brought home from our last Wine Fest weekend with the girls... she mentioned that one of the bottles of the case she bought at Therapy Vineyards was bad - as in corked - vinegar - and not at all suitable for the pallet - no matter how drunk you may already be.  I've never experienced this before.  Not corked wine - but corked wine that I bought directly from the vineyard (or even the store), kept stored in the recommended place, way etc.  So I've never really known what exactly you would do about it.

I would be ticked off if it happened to me.. so being that I like to get answers or at least figure out what could be done, I popped into my local liquor store and asked.  The girl there said that no liquor store would normally take a bad bottle back, and suggested that we should call the vineyard and see if there was something they would do for us.  So I came home and looked up Therapy's info on their website and sent it off to Chuck.  Knowing Chuck as I do, I will gladly let you know how that turned out.

In the meantime, here are a few of the wineries we love to visit when we go on our Wine Fest weekends:

Therapy Vineyards
Dirty Laundry Vineyard
Nk'mip Cellars
Black Hills
Desert Hills
Gehringer Brothers Estate Winery
Gray Monk Estate Winery
Inniskillin Okanagan
Mission Hill Winery
Quails' Gate Estate Winery
Sumac Ridge Estate Winery

Our last trip was in the spring of '10 - for KM's 40th birthday... we stayed at a very lovely place.. and for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.. so I'll have to get back to you with it.. but that's definitely a great place to go if you need to stay up there. (*sending a message to LL right now to ask!*)

okay .. well that's my input for the moment.  I have a bunch of other links I found today that I shared on facebook that i found interesting and will post later.

somehow I think dinner needs to be started before i go nuts :)