It's easy to get carried away when you are tasting the "home town" wines if only because you want them to show well, but that's why we go to great lengths to taste most B.C. wines alongside similar wines from the rest of the world. At gismondionwine.com
87 Black Hills Nota Bene 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot - Cabernet FrancOkanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaBC $31.95 Winery OnlyThe latest Nota Bene a 46/34/20/ cabernet sauvignon / merlot / cabernet franc is much cleaner than past versions on
They say that when it comes to identifying grapes, gewurztraminer and perhaps sauvignon blanc are the easiest for a newcomer to recognize. Clearly the aromatics grab your attention and in the case of one of today's featured grapes -- gewurztraminer --
The B.C. Wine Authority is looking of a few good people but you best be up for a challenge. Despite a positive public image the highly fractionalised industry has been infighting for decades and there is no reason to assume things will change anytime
WHITES 87 Cuvée du Haut-Censy Muscadet Sèvre et Main Sur Lie 2003 Muscadet, Pays Nantais, Loire, FranceBC $14.85 SpecialtyBig honey, clover, citrus, watermelon, lime aromas. Dry, round, elegant, crisp palate with mineral, light lees, lime rind, green
The announcement that the French national appellation authority (INAO) will permit winemakers in all 50 Grand Cru terroirs of the region not to indicate the names of varieties on wine labels has stunned many Alsace producers and wine drinkers from around
Spain is the current darling of the international food and wine stage and as the anti-globalization forces gather strength, the country with culinary diversity to spare could be in for a long run as a preferred producer of both food and wine. I've always
Wednesday the New Zealand Consul General and a group of New Zealand winegrowers will hold the largest ever tasting of screw cap finished wines in Vancouver. Although it's fun to mention, be assured no one is pitching the screw cap closures to attract
Victoria Estate, a winery with a brief and frankly poor wine history, is changing its name and focus and has signed a big time winemaker with the credentials to actually make majority owner Kim Pullen's dreams come true. Sources tell me Californian winemaker
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that American consumers may purchase wine direct from out-of-state wineries, striking down laws banning the practice. The five to four decision strikes down laws in the lucrative New York and Michigan markets that
The June Issue of Wine Access is out and the dual cover, one for the east and one for the west, previews our guide to Canadian wine country. Look for it on newsstands near you. COVER FEATUREOur Great Canadian Wine Issue: Following British Columbia
If there is a single, noble, grape variety that spells Spain most would agree it's tempranillo even if most Spaniards can not agree on a single name to refer to the country's most famous red grape. Unlike most classic grapes, think riesling,
88 Black Hills Nota Bene 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot - Cabernet FrancOkanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaBC $31.95 Winery OnlyYear four of Nota Bene is the best yet from the tiny South Okanagan winery but it remains a work in progress. The nose
With the help of some major winemakers the Vancouver chapter of the Australian Wine Appreciation Society selected six top Australian shiraz to be tasted against six shiraz/syrah wines chosen from the rest of the world. The wines were tasted blind, and
If there is one country that's been spinning its wine wheels in Canada for most of the last decade, it has to be Chile. A decade of promise has come and gone for the long, thin country that looked so ready to jump to a new level in the 1990s. Today,
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