Hey all, I’m back with another post. I keep saying I will release a couple a month, and I still haven’t gotten into that rhythm yet. Oh well, I’ll get it right one day.

I will touch upon something I discovered during my vacation to Penticton at the end of August. For the longest time, I’ve never been able to get into any kind of alcohol, nor have I understood the fascination that so many have with it. Sure, I get that people like the tastes or the effects that it has on them, but nearly every time I’ve sipped anything, whether it be over-the-counter beer or the finest champagne in Alberta, I’ve just never been able to drink it without feeling at least a little bit disgusting afterward. The same goes for red wine, which I’ve had a few times. I’ve had it at family functions, weddings, and fancy restaurants, and I still think it tastes terrible. Why did I have it all those times even though I don’t like it, you ask? I think it was because everyone else was trying it, and also because I was a little curious. If I hadn’t been so eager to fit in, I probably would’ve stuck with my usual order of ice water or Sprite.

I had never been to either the Okanagan or Penticton before my trip, and out of all the things I will remember from going down there, the wines I discovered are definitely up there. Admittedly, I was initially hesitant to try any of them due to my past experiences. I eventually relented when I saw they were all specialized fruit-flavored wines. These flavors ranged from peach to pear and all the way to haskap. If you don’t know what a haskap is, it’s a very sour and tasty blue-colored berry you can find at various farms and shrubs across Alberta and British Columbia. My dad tried the haskap wine and thought it tasted like gasoline due to the sourness, but I ended up liking it. Unfortunately, we didn’t buy any bottles of that. However, we did buy several bottles of cherry, strawberry, plum, and so on. Many of them ended up going to our various relatives across central Alberta and Edmonton. We ended up keeping a lot of them for ourselves, because my house does like a good drink once in a while. We also bought a myriad of jams and syrups, all of them being fruit-flavored as well.

It’s been quite fun trying a lot of these flavors, and I’ve now really grown a taste for cherry wines and pear rosé. We’re definitely going to try and order some more bottles of pear rosé for the winter; it should definitely go well with our traditional turkey dinner.

That’s about all I have for now. It’s a short post, I know, but I still haven’t gotten around to polishing up and publishing the other posts I’ve had on the burner for a while. I’m definitely going to try and change that for October because I have a lot of things I’d like to talk about that are coming up.

Until then, God bless and I’ll see you later.