October 28, 2005 (Calgary, AB) - Canada's most authoritative wine magazine, Wine Access, revealed the winners of its 2005 Annual Canadian Wine Awards today, naming CedarCreek Estate Winery of Kelowna as Canada's Winery of the Year for the second time
The world may have gone mad for red wine but do you really think cabernet sauvignon with mussels is the way to go? Merlot with a Cobb salad does not do it for me, nor does halibut with shiraz, yet everywhere I look consumers are drinking red wine with
Nothing but new releases this week and, conveniently, they fall under the October New Introduction Program in participating government liquor stores, which should make finding them a breeze. New wines are the lifeblood of any wine shop, although I am
Anticipation of a quality vintage is building as the grape harvest in BC's wine regions comes in. Some very early varietals were picked as early as late August, but the majority of grapes were picked in the last two weeks, and although most feel this
The following is our A-Z guide of the Best B.C Wines we have tasted in the past six months. The wines are organised by winery and within each set the reviews are sorted by grape variety. The minimum score required to make the list is 87/100. 87 Arrowleaf
The 25th Okanagan Wine Festival concludes this weekend with a flurry of events including two evenings of consumer tastings in Penticton and, the official results of the 2005 Okanagan Wine Festival Competition. This year's judges included Brent
The biggest story in Canadian wine is set to play out in the days and weeks to come as Canada's largest wine company, Vincor International Inc., a company that has dined on a number of its competitors over the years, is about to become someone else's
Australian Wine Experience returns to Vancouver's historic Gastown neighbourhood Oct. 4 with some 250 wines to sample. The stand-up, walk-about tasting that takes place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Storyeum, 151 Cordova in Gastown, has become an important
The Associated Press is reporting that Constellation Brands Inc. has launched a hostile bid late Tuesday to acquire Canadian wine producer Vincor International Inc. for C$1.4 billion ($1.2 billion). Reuters is reporting Vincor rejected the
By the time you read this, fall will have officially arrived and my desk should be cleared off. But for now I am desperately trying to remove months of press releases and other assorted notes to meet a self-imposed deadline to find my desktop (the physical
WHITES 88 Trio Sauvignon Blanc 2004 Valle de Casablanca, Region de Aconcagua, ChileBC $14.95 Special Order - Select Wine MerchantsRipe passion fruit, gooseberry, butter, kiwi aromas with a slightly smoky, grassy edge. Round, soft, elegant and clean with
91 Burrowing Owl Syrah 2003 Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaBC $29.95 WineryVery dark cherry colour. Big smoky, dried lychee, sausage meat aromas with peppery, licorice root, blackberry jam notes. Rich, round, fat and ripe with blackberry
I've come to the conclusions that the two largest impediments to enjoying wine as it affects most consumers is the quality of the corkscrew they own and the shape of the glass they are using when they drink wine. I say this now after travelling all summer,
Free trade has never been a phrase used to describe the convoluted business of selling liquor in Canada and as a result the provincial liquor monopolies, with the exception of Alberta's open market, rule the roost. Two weeks of traveling across southern
Local wine distributors were anticipating the colour of chic to be pink this summer. Unfortunately, the Vancouver port shutdown trapped much of that enthusiasm inside containers instead of where it looks best ― on city patios. Interest in rosé
Sideways, the movie, has come and gone from the big screen but not without having a significant impact on North American pinot noir sales. Almost overnight, the grape that was barely known outside the inner circle of wine-dom, has arrived in the glare
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