Sparkling Wines 87 Mas fi Cava Brut N/V Macabeo - Parellada - Xarello Penedès, Catalunya, Spain BC $15.00 speculative listing - Seacove Group Medium fine mousse with light floral, citrus, biscuit, green apple, quince and pear skin aromas.
88 8th Generation Vineyard Riesling Selection 2011 British Columbia, Canada BC $28.50 winery direct or private wine stores Love the effort here and the super fresh, zesty style, full of citrus and red apple fruit. There is more intensity here than
The international wine and spirits community were in Germany this week attending ProWein, one of the biggest trade shows on the planet. More than 40,000 visitors passed through the doors, and on the eve of the big show the German Wine Institute (DWI)
The sound of a cork being pulled from a wine bottle is often described as the most romantic moment in wine. I would maintain the sound of clinking bottles being stored or pulled from a wine cellar, of any size or description, is far more romantic and
How important is back label information to you when you purchase a bottle of wine? Quite a lot, according to professors at California Polytechnic State University. The researchers also looked at the kind of information consumers want on the back
Our Top 10 Wine Plus Ties Summerhill Pyramid Winery Cipes Ariel Premier Cuvée Pinot Noir - Chardonnay - Pinot Meunier 1998, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada Price $85.00 UPC Score 92/100 Remarks Summerhill has
It's over. You can hear the sighs of relief across the city. It's not that we don't like the Vancouver International Wine Festival, it's just that it takes up a lot of time and energy and when it's done, well, there is a sense of relief among distributors,
By the time you read this, Vancouver International Wine Festival organizers will have announced France, or to be more precise, its many wine regions to be the theme of the 2014 festival. Talk about a difference in wine philosophy. Local wine
The 35th Vancouver International Wine Festival (née Playhouse) is fast approaching and it suddenly occurred to me that a good portion of those attending may not have been born when the first Playhouse Festival took place back in 1979. Famed
Should British Columbia have a signature wine varietal? Of course not, but some 350 attendees were not going to let a poorly chosen phrase or two get in the way of a lively debate that took place last Friday night in the bowels of the Vancouver Public
I'm very disappointed to hear that Wine Access magazine (RedPoint) will cease publication with the March Issue and walk away from CWA, IVWA and The Canadian Wine Annual. As many of you know I made a decision to leave the magazine in
Sustainability has been a hot-button issue for consumers in the food and wine business for more than a decade now, and as we prepare to welcome the wine world to the upcoming Vancouver International Wine Festival in late February it seems appropriate
A month out from the Vancouver International Wine Festival, we begin our preview of some of the themes and questions likely to present themselves when the giant grape fest kicks off on Monday, Feb . 25. We begin with California, the theme region
Bits and pieces to start 2013 beginning with that age-old question, where have all the years gone? To be more precise, what happened to all the vintages at www.bcldb.com? Whose idea was it to stop publishing the year or vintage date for most
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