The 2018 Wine Align National Wine Awards are complete. The results of Canada’s largest competition for 100 percent Canadian grown wines are being published this week and next. This year's competition attracted over 1850 wines from
It’s all Canada this week at the 2018 Wine Align National Wine Awards, Canada’s largest competition for 100 percent Canadian grown wines. We have just completed the first round of The Nationals and tasting 1867 wines, now to be followed
We took to the opportunity to catch up with a diverse selection of wine folks at the recent annual Lifford Grand Tasting at the beautifully renovated Stanley Park Pavilion near the park’s famed Rose Garden. In all we selected 18 wines, one from
Malbec returns to our Top Ten list, and given that more than 75 percent of the world’s plantings are in Argentina, our focus this week is on Argie. The rush for malbec has flooded the marketplace with a lot of labels, some excellent, some commercial.
You still have a few days to pick up tickets and join us for dinner with Winemaker Mark Beringer, the great, great grandson of Jacob Beringer, at Glowbal Telus Gardens. Tickets are $150 per person, taxes, fees and gratuities included. It should be a great
BC Liquor Stores will celebrate California wines this weekend with a major release of some of the best reds made in the sunshine state. This Saturday at 9:30 a.m., BC Liquor Stores will release a wide selection of wines from the 2014 vintage, thought
It goes without saying that any winery that controls its fruit sources is a winery with all the tools required to make serious wine. Today Okanagan Crush Pad Winery owners Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie moved to secure their fruit sources by adding
The British Columbia wine industry just hit a major home run on the international wine stage and it has nothing to do with gold medals. It’s much bigger than that. Phantom Creek Estates, yet to release a single bottle of wine, has signed a long-term
It takes a village to raise a wine and it would appear the good burghers of Naramata have finally agreed to lay down some boundaries around their village. Let's hope it gets done soon because there is so much more to do. Here is the official release. For
Taylor, Fonseca and Croft declared a 2016 Vintage Port today in what was probably the worse kept secret in the business. Following months of speculation, and following a long tradition, the declaration was made on St Georges Day, the 23rd April, 2018. Taylor's
Okanagan-based Poplar Grove Winery has named Ingo Grady as Estate Director. A 30-year industry veteran, Grady previously held senior executive roles at Grady Wine Marketing, Mission Hill Family Estate, and Phantom Creek Estates. As Estate Director, he
This week the GOW Top Ten returns to the Next World pinot noir category in search of silky, round, inviting pinot to get you through the spring. The list of high potential pinot noir provenance continues to expand in our view including Central Otago,
Treve is in London tasting at the International Wine Challenge while I hold down the office amid ever-changing cool, wet, sunny, warm, spring weather in Vancouver. If you are ready to slowly move off those rich winter reds to something just a little lighter
The death of Cellared in Canada or (CiC) wines was a long time coming. After grabbing hundreds of millions of dollars in income for producers while causing even more damage to the image of Canadian wine, the wine that never had anything to do with authentic
We visited six different producers from around the wine world during the 2018 Vancouver International Wine Festival. Listen in and watch as we uncover tidbits of valuable information about their wines and wineries. Kendall Jackson - Winemaker Randy Ullom
It is said, for better or worse, that cabernet sauvignon makes some of the biggest wines on the planet. The physical nature of cabernet tends to be robust, angular and tannic in youth, and while it mellows with age, even the finest cabernet sauvignon
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