Burgundian Amaury Devillard made a quick stop in Vancouver recently to unveil several new wines sold under his family's highly regarded negociant label Antonin Rodet. He poured several wines for the wine trade at an early afternoon tasting before he spoke
Today, a look at two very different but well-established California wineries that have made the transition from fierce competitors to friendly rivals. Although dramatically different in style, Callaway Winery and Clos du Bois are owned by the same company,
One thing I've learned over the years is to avoid writing about wines consumers can't easily access. While that's a good rule for rare labels and minute quantities of imported wine, it can mean some of the best local products fail to get their due. Vancouver
"If pinot noir is the bitch of all grape varieties to grow and vinify, than shiraz is surely a product of mother earth herself," or so says Bob McLean, managing director of St. Hallett's Winery of Australia's Barossa Valley. McLean's Old Block Shiraz,
The serene courtyard of the Villa Delia, a cooking school and a hotel on an estate named after Umberto's mother, opened in 1993 after an expenditure of $7 - million for improvements and renovations. Mention Umberto Menghi's name at a gathering of Vancouver
Late-bottled vintage (or LBV) port is the no-fuss, no-mess, ready-to-pour drink from Portugal. As the name implies, an LBV is a single-vintage wine that is bottled later than most other port types. It begins life in a wooden barrel and, until the two-year
Austrian wines disappeared from B.C. liquor stores more than a decade ago. They enjoyed limited success here in the late 1970s and early '80s, and most of that was for fairly sweet, late-harvest wines. In 1985, a very public scandal in which some
Sangiovese was most likely used in winemaking during the height of the Roman Empire although it wasn't until a thousand years later that it was officially recognized. According to Darrell Corti of Corti Brothers Wine Merchants in Sacramento, a 16th-Century
If you imagine the wine production of the Rhone Valley as a pyramid, then Cotes du Rhone red and white would be the base. The French appellation's 110,000 acres of vineyard are responsible for almost 90 per cent of the total production of Rhone wines.
Robert Skalli is at it again. A decade after he launched his visionary Mediterranean varietals under the name of Fortant de France, capturing 30 per cent of the French varietal market and establishing Fortant as an international force, word comes that
At long last it would appear that your chances of finding a decent bottle of British Columbia wine will exceed the odds of sighting the legendary Ogopogo. In an announcement made, late last month, the provincial Cabinet has approved the framework for
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