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As the New Year’s approaches we are going to slow down just a bit. We will continue to post as many wine reviews as we can but everyone needs to recharge and hopefully spend some time with family so check back when you can. Our major features
For all who have asked, here is a quick list of holiday picks in one space. Top 10: Holiday Party Wines - For anyone planning a large party this holiday season, especially if you are hoping to save a few bucks on the wine and not give in on quality. Top
Garnet Valley is 320-acres of magic uncovered by the Okanagan Crush Pad team, who have been chasing the dream of making wine that shouts the Okanagan for years. Ten minutes north of Summerland, British Columbia, off a non-descript dirt road, on a hillside
The run to the holidays continues at GOW. We are publishing a wide array of new tasting notes and two major features on global sparkling wine, just released, and our annual Champagne guide coming up December 11. You will also find several Top
Breaking News: Naramata-based Laughing Stock Vineyards cashes out at the top of the market selling to Arterra Wines Canada. It’s the fourth winery sold to an Ontario company this year and joins a large group of wineries and wine enterprises owned
Hillside made a brilliant tactical decision to focus on Naramata fruit about seven or eight years ago, long before anyone in the Okanagan was seriously talking about sub-regions. Winemaker Kathy Malone proposed the idea after experiencing the commonality
We are back for a few days and working hard on a big December lineup. I have one last trip to France in December but in the meantime we will be publishing a wide array of new tasting notes, two features on global sparkling wines, (December 4) and Champagne
Doug and Dawn Reimer turned their love of wine and food into a reality that many dream of, but seldom ever attain. After patiently tending their cool-climate vineyard in East Kelowna and watching the grapes they sold win praise at home and abroad (formerly
More big news out the Okanagan Valley with word that Phantom Creek has acquired 63-acres (25.49 hectares) of vineyard on the Golden Mile Bench in British Columbia’s south Okanagan Valley. The vineyard, established in 2004 by Chris and Betty Jentsch,
The 20 kilometer-long Naramata Bench begins at Penticton, British Columbia, and runs north along the east side bluffs above Okanagan Lake. The narrow strip of precious vineland sits in the center of B.C.'s largest wine region, the Okanagan Valley. The
Anthony is in Barcelona and the Duoro Valley this week and Treve is in Chablis, after a week in Lisbon. We'll still be posting new tasting notes and stories while we're away. If you haven't visited us in a while, please have a look at our latest videos
Italian Wine Scholar Unit 1, Northern Italy at Victoria and Vancouver, Two Cities, Same Dates. The most advanced and comprehensive program specializing in Italy, the #1 wine exporting and producing country in the world. As with French Wine Scholar,
The recent wildfires in California and the staggering damage inflicted on life and property, which happened with such speed, gave many of us in British Columbia pause even after experiencing our own record season of flames that burned 900,000 hectares
There’s little doubt winemaker Jason Parkes marches to the beat of his own drum but then so does the off-beat, tattooed, back-of-the-house Hatch team who don’t look anything like your typical assistant winemakers. From the day it opened, the
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