If there's one wine-producing country that ought to be selling a lot more in this market, it's New Zealand. More than a decade after their arrival on the world wine stage, Kiwi producers have a meagre 57 listings in B.C. liquor stores, and it's doubtful
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - If wines were judged according to the natural beauty of their originating vineyards, there's little doubt in my mind that South Africa's would rank among the best in the world. Fortunately for the producers of the Western
The Perrin families have lived in harmony with their native Provence for six generations, thanks to employing a simple winemaking philosophy. Jean-Pierre Perrin says: "We try to place the vine in its universe, that is to say we relate it to the earth,
Today's column offers a change from the usual format. Instead of my opinion and perhaps those of a colleague or three, you get the collective verdict, category by category, on B.C. varietals, from a blind tasting by 21 Okanagan winemakers. It's not
Switching back to whites in the middle of a red wine frenzy may seem a little offbeat, but one thing British Columbians seem to do better than most other North Americans is to live at the edge of fashion. The past two decades of food-and-wine tasting
Thousands of consumers got a jump on summer last week at the Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival. The spirit-raising effect of some stellar spring weather had them reaching for the lightest and freshest wines inside the huge tasting room at Canada Place. German
There's only one big wine story this week, and the 24th Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival is it. The week-long celebration of the grape (and the crowd it attracts) provides a great opportunity to nab well-known international producers to taste with, and
When the doors to the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival tasting room open next week, Viña Errazuriz, a leading advocate of premium Chilean wine, will be pouring some of its best efforts from several appellations. The Chadwick family,
Portuguese port is one of the world's greatest fortified wines, and one look at the steeply terraced vineyards of the upper Douro Valley would convince most observers that the ever-changing topography where the grapes are grown is the key to this wine's
Next week the global wine community returns to B.C. for the 24th Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. Over two dozen years, a special relationship has emerged that has not only seen the knowledge of consumers grow in concert with that of exhibitors,
I don't know about you, but when I see names like "Mystic Cliffs," "Sawmill Creek" or "Crimson Bay" on a wine label, I immediately picture golf course developments or subdivisions of retirement homes. Maybe that's what the producer had in mind, although
Watch for a new name that's part of the Australian wine juggernaut that continues to roll through B.C. liquor stores: Peter Lehmann. Why it took so long for his wines to appear in B.C. is anybody's guess, but they're now arriving, and they bring another
Memphis Blues Barbeque House 1465 West Broadway, Vancouver 604/738-6806 Get your butt here early. Memphis Blues has been an instant success since restaurateur George Sui and wine nut Park Heffelfinger opened their authentic Southern baah-be-cue in
Last month I reviewed a number of wines that were part of a pilot project developed to introduce exciting new products to government liquor store shelves. Since that column appeared, I've had a chance to take a deeper look at the program and I really
Chile's Colchagua Valley (pronounced cole-CHOW-wha) has been producing wine for more than 400 years - an admirable record, but as with most New World wine producers, be they young or old, it's what they've made in the last two decades that really counts. Colchagua
Argentina's current economic woes aside, a decade of serious winemaking there has reasserted the right of South America's largest producer to prominence on the international wine map. The formula to convert rustic, meaty dry reds and thin, acidic, fruitless
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