Thanks to a reader for this week's topic about storing wine. It's not like I don't think about it constantly. Case in point, every time I walk into a restaurant and see bottles sitting at (very warm) room temperature for weeks and months
It's Thanksgiving weekend and like many British Columbians you will be you will soon be in a wine store looking for something to serve or take to a Thanksgiving celebration with family and/or friends. For those of you roasting the 'traditional'
I'm in California wine country this week attending a weeklong summit on California wine. The Golden State is back in the driver's seat in Canada, where sales of California wine are on fire. I'm delighted to report that there have been no
The most important wine competition in Canada is held once a year somewhere in Canadian wine country and it takes a full week of work to find out who is making the best wine. The newly minted WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada, a.k.a.
There is something about the B.C. government's liquor policy review that strikes me as odd. It begins with an official website, asking for public input on all matters liquor. It's not that the public should have their say but don't we elect governments
What is an Okanagan Crush Pad and why should I visit the place? It's a question I get a lot from curious wine travellers who can't quite seem to wrap their heads around the Summerland-based winery, or is that a consulting winery business? Okanagan
This week, as a result of the 2013 WineAlign NationalWine Awards in Toronto, Mission Hill Family Estate Winery was named theCanadian Winery of the Year. The National Wine Awards of Canada is the new nameof the 12-year old Canadian Wine Awards run by Wine
Hugh Johnson's The World Atlas of Wine was first published in 1971. About 4.5 million copies later, The World Atlas of Wine 7th edition now produced by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson is out in 16 languages. Johnson and Robinson have co-written the last
Summer unofficially comes to a screeching halt this weekend, not because the calendar says so but because for most of us, our work calendars and our back-to-school calendars, say so. Labour Day tends to focus our personal time clocks too as we begin
I've been on the road for two weeks working and vacationing and I have been tasting a fair bit of Riesling. It's an easy choice given the warm weather, Riesling's lower alcohol content, its fresh, fruity, flavour profile and its ability to work so
It's been more than a year since Washington closed its state liquor stores. In a recent Seattle Times editorial the paper suggested liquor privatization in Washington "is working as advertised and the social disaster predicted by supporters of state
This week's column is courtesy of a reader flummoxed by an Australian wine label. He writes. "On Saturday, Aug. 3, I purchased a 2-litre carton of Stanley Wines of Australia blend, Chenin, Semillon, Chardonnay. When I was putting the carton in the
It would be extremely naive to assume that every wine placed on a wine list is there because it deserves to be there. Quality and value are noble words but they often have precious little to do with a wine's position on any wine list. In a recent study
I never thought I would be writing a wine column that would place in close juxtaposition Hollywood royals Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with British Columbian wine-growers Ezra and Gabriel Cipes of Summerhill Pyramid Winery. But just as politics
Not every bit of news about wine is column-worthy. So this week on the cusp of a massive office cleanup, and a move to new laptop, I'm sharing wine tidbits that are just never going to make it into a full-length column by the end of summer. Let's
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