Blue Grouse Estate Winery and Vineyard announced today that Stacy Hornemann will take over as lead winemaker, assuming all winemaking responsibilities for Blue Grouse and Quill brands at its Cowichan Valley estate. Following a facility winemaking role
We first encountered Eric Monnin during Covid in a Zoom video discussing Project' B,' Boutinot's first reach into Canada after years of selling its international portfolio of wines across the country. Monnin is the head winemaker for Boutinot International,
Allison Spurrell has been in the retail cheese industry since 1987, when she and her mother, Alice Spurrell, founded the award-winning Vancouver cheese shop Les Amis du Fromage. Allison shares her formidable cheese knowledge with our avid newsletter followers
Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes many opportunities to be out of doors. Sign up for our monthly newsletter before you escape to the cabin, lake, or ocean. We have one of the highest open rates of any newsletter on wine.
Terralux Estate Winery is still under construction, and it hopes to add to British Columbia’s growing number of impressive winery facilities by the fall of 2024. The winery and its estate vineyard sit in the northern shadows of Mt Boucherie and
We spoke with Master of Wine Gillian Ballance at the Vancouver International Wine Festival about Castello di Gabbiano, Chianti Classico, and the success of the Gran Selezione designation. Further viewing: Our visit to Castello di Gabbiano featuring
BC wine has never been so well covered globally since people started using the word “catastrophic” to refer to a recent January deep freeze that hit the Okanagan Valley. We've posted two BC Food & Wine Radio interviews asking for a more
The Vancouver International Wine Festival turns 45 next week. If you traditionally define generations as the time between the birth of parents and their offspring, the annual festival of the grape is moving into its third generation. You could tag it
The Vancouver International Wine Festival is only a few days away, as are 71 Italian wineries, one of the largest single-country contingents in the history of the 45-year-old event. Many Italian wines today can trace a part of their lineage back to Roman
Italy is this year's featured country at the 45th Vancouver International Wine Festival, from Piedmont to Puglia and the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic Sea. It is time to get excited about the theme country before you arrive at the festival or even afterwards
Welcome to all the Italian producers and other wineries who have made the long trek to British Columbia to attend the 45th Vancouver International Wine Festival. We have several articles that will help you navigate the International Tasting Room with
The Vancouver International Wine Festival is returning February 24th with Italy as its focus. We find out what to expect and what is so exciting about Italian wines today from the festival's keynote speaker, writer and educator, Filippo Bartolotta, joining
Happy New Year, all. As we enter 2024, we embrace new beginnings with hope, dreams, and ambition for you and the much-beleaguered wine industry. We are not going anywhere but back to work because any sector that is 8000 years old isn’t going anywhere
The Penfolds Collection in 2023 was already destined for greatness, given its base is the widely admired 2021 vintage, and now that it is in bottle, it surely is the best set of wines we have seen from Penfolds ever. I love it when the weather conspires
When Mike and Nicole Dowell finally decided to become farmers, orchards were the plan until they tasted the chardonnay from a vineyard perched between rocky slopes and the Similkameen River. The site was a section of the Mariposa Farm, British Columbia's
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