'Meet your Match" is the signature, hard-core wine tasting at the upcoming Vancouver Inter-national Playhouse Wine Festival but it is nothing like your normal festival tasting event. Meet Your Match is fashioned after the speed dating format, except instead
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is fast approaching. The annual wine show that normally occurs during late March-early April begins a full month early in 2012. Tickets to the Feb. 27 to March 4 events are already on sale (www.playhousewinefest.
Of all the trends in wine over the last few years my least favourite is the creeping level of sweetness in dry table wines. Wine drinkers have always talked dry and sipped sweet but, with viticulture so technically advanced and grapes picked riper and
New Year's Eve is a great excuse to drink champagne or some other delightful sparkling wine. I don't think you really need an excuse but in case you do, this is the night for you. New Year's Eve evening is a great time for lingering over snacks with friends,
If you're celebrating the new year tonight there is still time to reach for the ultimate celebration wine: champagne. The king of bubbles begins its life like most other wine. The grapes are pressed and fermented in large stainless steel vats, occasionally
If you've been reading along all year you likely have all your Christmas dinner wines purchased and comfortably resting at home awaiting tomorrow's dinner hour. If you've been otherwise occupied and waited until the last minute, time is running out. Most
Taylor Fladgate Port is one of wine's mystical names. It began in the 17th century when certain privileges were given to British merchants to establish trade between England and Portugal. In the case of Taylor it began in 1692 in the upper reaches of
Wine writers love to use the terms "best buy" and "best value" to make sure you pay attention to their review, but what does best value really mean when you open that bottle of wine? If price is seldom a measure of quality, can it possibly be a measure
If you are in search of useful wine gifts, you are in luck. Today, we look at some of the basic requirements for any aspiring wine drinker and we pair them with appropriately tasty wine. It's one, or two-stop shopping, for wine lovers and these gifts
It's Grey Cup week in Vancouver and with only one day to go before the big game, the question is, what will you be serving tomorrow? Beer has been the traditional go-to drink for football watchers, but there is plenty of evidence that that relationship
Real fall weather arrived this week in British Columbia. Although with so much snow in the forecast it seems as if winter isn't far behind. With much cooler temperatures, it's the perfect time to pull out the winter coat, or in this case Côte, as in
Early-bird tickets to the 2012 Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival go on sale at the end of the month, so it may be instructive to think about some of the better tweets coming out of Asia this week from WineFuture Hong Kong 2011. Spaniard
The Best of BC Release is underway at 21 Signature and select BC Liquor Stores. The selection, as compiled by British Columbia portfolio manager Stephen Schiedel, offers you a glimpse at some of the best wines made in the province. As is the
SPARKLING 87 Jacob's Creek Chardonnay Pinot Noir Brut Cuvee N/V Chardonnay - Pinot Noir Australia BC $14.00 specialty listing New to the market and a fun addition for those of you who want a dry but fruity sparkler without the aggressive acidity.
91 Blue Mountain Pinot Noir Reserve (Stripe Label) 2008 Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada BC $36.00 special order - Keystone Fine Wines The Striped Label Reserve is a blend of five clones and older vines - 19 to 25 years of
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," at least according to the Liza Doolittle's character in My Fair Lady. Yet as much as that sentence was crafted to help her correctly pronounce the English language, a meteorologist she ain't. Having just traversed
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