These were served at a 40th wedding anniversary party last night at a pub/steak house in Langley, B.C.:
2024 Chaberton Estate Winery Bacchus Estate Grown Fraser Valley VQA
White grapefruit, green apple, rhubarb and a little bit of mustard greens. Brisk, lively, herbal and delicious. Bacchus must be a hybrid. Anyway, it's grown just over the border from me in Canada's Fraser Valley! This wasn't sweet by any means, just fruity, but they do make a deliberately Dry version which I also would love to taste.
2022 Bodegas Escorihuela Gascón Malbec 1884 Estate Grown Mendoza
Black, tart, undistinguished. Perfect example of everything I distrust about malbec. Eh.
And a note from the Bad Wine Service Department: just when I thought those days were over, the staff at this pub obviously had no idea how to serve wine. I happened to walk past the bar just as another guest was buying another bottle of the Malbec above. I was done for the night but when he offered me a glass, I felt circumstantially obliged to accept. So the bartender whipped out a third glass and then proceeded to divide the entire bottle between the three glasses--to the brim.