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Wine-Reviews

Maple Leaf Spirits Peach Liqueur

Maple Leaf Peach Liqueur

Wine: Peach Liqueur

Winery: Maple Leaf Spirits, Penticton

Why drink it? Winner of a gold medal at the 2020 Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition, this spirit from the Naramata Bench will take you back to the height of fruit harvest when you’re huddled inside on a cool day. It sells out quickly, so don’t delay getting your hands on a bottle. A lovely golden sunset colour, pour into a small cordial glass (your grandma probably has a set looking for a new home), and enjoy the scent of fresh picked peaches and touches of vanilla and honey. A straight sip tastes just like peaches, with nice body and weight on the tongue. Not excessively sweet, keep in mind this is a ripe and round fruit liqueur

Pair with: Perfectly lovely to sip on its own with anything peachy – tarts, pies, pastries, cheesecake – it can be used in a variety of cocktails that call for fruit. A delightful addition to a good hot chocolate topped with fresh whipped cream and toasted slivered almonds, or in your favourite vinaigrette.

Price: $33

Music pairing: Easy as Pie, Peaches & Herb

 



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About the Author

As a kid, Shelley Boettcher often found herself in the back seat of a pick-up, exploring the back roads of the Okanagan Valley with her parents. They’d occasionally leave her and her brother in the car while they stopped at mysterious addresses to buy wine. They would emerge, clearly happy, as they stuck a box or a few bottles in the vehicle. Then they would continue on their journey.

But it wasn’t until a trip to Spain in 2000 that Shelley herself fell in love with wine. She came home from the holiday and promptly told her editor she wanted to become a wine writer.

And she did. 

An award-winning food and wine writer and editor, Shelley holds her master’s degree in journalism and her advanced WSET certification, as well as her level 2 International Sommelier Guild certification. A wine columnist for the Calgary Herald, she spent a decade as CBC Radio’s national syndicated wine columnist and she has written three books about wine, including two that were Canadian bestsellers. Her byline has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Postmedia newspapers across Canada. 

Shelley has travelled throughout many of the world’s wine regions and countries, including Niagara, Oregon, Washington, California, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Germany, Argentina and the Republic of Georgia. A few years ago, she even tracked down and visited a winery in Denmark. 

Shelley has also served as a professional wine judge regionally and internationally, including the Okanagan Wine Festivals, Vinitaly and the Chianti Classico Consortium. For more than a decade, she has been a restaurant wine list judge for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, too. She still teases her parents for sparking her love for wine, especially BC wine.

And her favourite? Whatever she's drinking at the moment.

You can follow Shelley on Instagram @shelleyboettcher or Twitter at @shelley_wine. 

If you have a BC wine you’d like to suggest, email Shelley at [email protected] with the name of the wine and a short note about why you enjoyed it. 

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