Some 30 years down the wine path I’m still baffled by the North American resistance to open, share, and drink sparkling wine on a regular basis. Oh sure, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, weddings — almost any life changing moment —
You need only meet Nicolás and Elena Catena once to sense they are as genuine as the towering Andes Mountains that frame their Mendoza vineyards. Speaking to a sold out crowd at the 2014 Wine Summit Lake Louise at the Post Hotel &
The summer solstice arrives today and while technically the days will begin to grow shorter, most of us will celebrate the arrival of warmer, drier weather for the next three months. Vancouver will experience an amazing 16 hours, 15 minutes and one second
I learned long ago that colour doesn't really matter when it comes to wine, at least as a guide to quality. It is even easier to say that in 2014, because both viticulturists and winemakers have an endless bag of tricks to draw from when it comes correcting
For most wine drinkers, the holy grail of wine lies somewhere among the grand cru climates of Burgundy and the equally exalted first-growth sites of Bordeaux’s famed Haut-Médoc. Both French regions have been responsible for some amazing bottles
Since the inception of VQA in 1989, B.C. wine bottles have been marked with precious little geographic information. A group effort led by the wineries of the day and government determined five, broad designated viticultural regions that could appear on
After a week in the south of France, I confirmed there islittle doubt the rosé colour of choice is pale pink with a twist of sunsetorange. When it comes to rosé worldwide, the colour of money in2014 is pink, pale pink. True,
It may sound odd but the notion of barbecue wines didn't really exist a generation ago. We may have been grilling in the backyard but drinking wine with whatever was being cooked wasn't on. If there was any drinking at all, most of it was beer, and it
I've spent the last two weeks walking, cycling, flying and ballooning over a number of vineyards in British Columbia and California, hoping to gain more insight into the question of whether site matters. By the time you read this, I will be cutting a
With so many eminent politicians, government official sand captains of industry in the room you couldn't help but feel the presence of some unspoken code that making money from wine is all good but sharing a glass over lunch, well, that's one step
TheOkanagan Spring Wine Festival, set to run May 1-11, turns 20 this year orroughly two thirds the age of its big-brother fall event. At thisevent, 119 wineries will play host to about 70 wine and culinary events. Wecouldn't cover all the activities,
A recent quick trip into the Okanagan reminded me how much I like to be in wine country just after pruning and before the leaves have covered the vines. It's the best time of year to discover the nooks and crannies of a vineyard site and to come to understand
When someone mentions tango or gaucho, pampas or asado it's easy to think of Argentina. When wine is the subject the word that best elicits an Argentine shout-out is Malbec. On April 17, Argentina is shouting out Malbec World Day and in Year
Another grape-growing and wine-producing season is on us inBritish Columbia and there is little to suggest the vast Okanagan Valley willbe carved into a number of smaller, sensible sub-regions that relate to theorigin of where grapes and wines are produced
There's never a dull moment in thewine business and fresh off the heels of a week in the Barossa Valley in South Australia, I can report 2014 will be at least a good vintage for the regionthat lies about 60 km north and slightly east of Adelaide. Heavy
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