Cost: $26.00
Grape Variety: Marechal Foch
Category: Red Wine
Location Sperling Vineyard Winery
Country: Canada
Region: Okanagan Valley
Format: 750 mL
Producer: Sperling Vineyard Winery
Alcohol: 14.5% Alcohol/Vol.
Description: Medium+ ruby to garnet in colour with a medium to medium+ intense nose.

In comparing this to their reserve Foch, this one is lighter in taste but higher in alcohol. If you had to choose, I would go with the reserve for the extra money.

Positive Notes: A flavorful wine featuring prunes, brambleberry fruit, figs and pastrami. Medium+ body with medium to Medium+ tannins, good acidity & a long length.

Negatives: A touch hot on the taste

Drink now on its own or over the next 3 years and pair it with venison.

Tasted: 13 June 13

Score: 8.5+/10, Value: 8.5+/10 Total: 17.5/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 3.5+

Cost: $32.00
Grape Variety: Marachel Foch
Category: Red Wine
Location Bought: Sperling Vineyard Winery
Country: Canada
Region: Okanagan Valley
Format: 750 mL
Producer: Sperling Vineyard Winery
Alcohol: 14.2% Alcohol/Vol.
Description: Medium+ ruby to garner in colour with a medium+ intense nose.

Unusual try a Fosch from BC rather than Ontario.

Positive Notes: Intense flavours of plums, dark cherry, mulberry, raspberry, pastrami, fennel & pomegranate. Medium+ body with good acidity & length.

Negatives: None

Drink now on its own or over the next 3 years and pair it with venison.

Tasted: 13 June 13

Score: 9/10, Value: 8.5/10 Total: 17.5/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 3.5+

Cost: $30.00
Grape Variety: Merlot
Category: Red Wine
Location Bought: Burrowing Owl Vineyard Winery
Country: Canada
Region: Okanagan Valley
Format: 750 mL
Producer: Burrowing Vineyard Winery
Alcohol: 14% Alcohol/Vol.
Description: Medium+ ruby in colour with a medium to medium+ intense nose.

Positive Notes: This merlot has nice juicy flavor featuring raspberry, plums, dark chocolate, thyme, sweet basil and vanilla. Full body with medium to Medium+ tannins, good acidity & a long length.

Negatives: A touch hot on the taste

Drink now on its own or over the next 5 years and pair it with beef Bourguignon.

Tasted: 13 June 13

Score: 9/10, Value: 8.5/10 Total: 7.5/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 3.5+

Cost: $21.99
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Category: Red Wine
Location Bought: Therapy Vineyard Winery
Country: Canada
Region: Okanagan Valley
Format: 750 mL
Producer: Therapy Vineyard Winery
Alcohol: 11.7% Alcohol/Vol.
Description: Medium ruby in colour with a medium+ intense nose.

This doesn’t taste like a Pinot Noir, more like a cheap California wine that you can buy for $5. I believe Therapy needs therapy on this one!

Notes: Strawberry jam, cherry pie and milk chocolate. Medium body with average acidity & length.

Negatives: Too many to name.

Drink now on its own or pair it with BBQ pork ribs.

Tasted: 13 June 13

Score: 8/10, Value: 6/10 Total: 14/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 3

Cost: $24.95
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Category: Red Wine
Location Bought: Winery
Country: Canada
Region: Niagara Peninsula
Format: 750 mL
Producer: Jackson-Triggs
Alcohol: 13% Alcohol/Vol.
Description: Medium minus ruby in colour with a medium+ intense nose.

Once upon a time Jackson-Triggs produced a lot of low quality wines. Oh how times have changed, and for the better.

Positives: An aromatic Pinot made in the Burgundian style featuring cedar pine mix, champagne mushrooms, plums, smoked Montreal meat & Allspice. Medium minus body with light tannins, good acidity and a really long length.

Drink now on or over the next 3 years its own or pair it with grilled duck.

Tasted: 17 May 13

Score: 8.5+/10, Value: 9/10 Total: 18/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 3.5+

Thanks Carol Ann, from WineAlign, for the opportunity to taste this.