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
Hello Fall. The third in our latest series of fall videos is out this week featuring the quirky team at the Hatch. The West Kelowna winery joins Phantom Creek and Similkameen-based Clos du Soleil while we work on our next video featuring Naramata’s
The Penticton Lakeside Resort is our preferred hotel when staying in the central Okanagan. It's located at the southern tip of Okanagan Lake within walking distance to Penticton city restaurants and the formidable Saturday morning Penticton Farmer's Market.
I enjoyed Vancouver lawyer, Al Hudec's Facebook post (pasted below) on the recent sale of Tinhorn Creek, Black Hills and Gray Monk three well known, and for many consumers, beloved BC wineries. Here are some of my thoughts. First, if your exit strategy
There’s a three-pronged fork in the road just past the town of Hope, about an hour and half east of Vancouver, where knowing wine lovers lean right to travel the historic Crowsnest Highway. As the road winds its way upward, and farther east, toward
Labour Day marks the start of the real New Year for most of us with back to school top of mind. We will be shifting our mindset over the next few weeks upping our red wine coverage but look for an in-depth feature on Trocken and Kabinett labeled German
The final days of summer are upon us, so we're ordering a pizza and getting outside to soak up as much sun as possible. Which is why we're releasing our Top Ten Pizza Picks this week. Whether you're outside like us or getting ready to get back
Take a first look at a new winery literally emerging from the historic Black Sage Bench in the South Okanagan. The team at Phantom Creek Estates has set the bar high for themselves and their wines but they seem willing to put in the time and hard work
We continue to fine tune the GOW site and this week we are especially proud to share several search changes. Most importantly, we are way faster. And, when you find the wine you are looking for, chances are we will have tasted other vintages of the same
This week our cheese maven Alison Spurrell lists her favourite Canadian cheeses to help celebrate Canada 150. It’s a terrific shopping list that will take you coast to coast in search of the country’s best fromage. Our friends at Wine Align
As we settle into our 150th year as a nation many of us are contemplating the past and the future. We don’t have it all right yet but we remain an outward, forward-thinking society who continue to make our way in a complicated world. Canadian wine
The folks at New District asked us to put together a quarterly wine pack to offer to their customers. Our second selection, now on offer, is a choice of six wines made under the direction of Italian winemaker/consultant Alberto Antonini. Alberto's work
At the end of a week in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, at the seventeenth Wine Align National Wine Awards, 24 judges have managed to whittle down 1700 entries to about 350 heading for the final rounds. Full competition results will be announced sometime in mid-July
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