A riesling top ten is long overdue and no matter how underrepresented it is as a varietal wine on restaurant wine lists, this week we encourage you to bag, bottle and drag a bottle of riesling to your favourite Thai, Chinese, Indian or Pan Asian restaurant
When it comes to starting a wine cellar it’s the “How-to-do-it question?” that we get a lot. To be brutally honest it takes a lot of perseverance and plenty of self-restraint not to mention some hard-earned cash, but it’s doable,
This week the GOW Top Ten takes a look at New World pinot noir, or should we say Next World pinot noir. First time pinot noir drinkers usually succumb to its silky, juicy fruit while veteran swillers simply admire the concentration and depth of flavour
We have logged a lot of miles and a lot of wines as we close in on 2000 reviews for 2016. It’s actually just a fraction of the wines we’ve tasted when you consider the bottles presented in tastings, restaurants, vineyards and just about anywhere
Style is one of those words you are not supposed use when you write about wine because it means different things to different people. But like it or not, champagne has style and if you taste enough, or simply pay attention to what comes your way over
Selecting Christmas dinner wines can strike fear into the heart of any seasoned wine buyer, let alone the casual tippler. This is especially true if you failed to sign up for that food and wine pairing class you said you would attend after last year’s
It's a funny thing about fizz. Unless it says "Champagne" on the label, it never gets the respect afforded the famous French region, even if most of us wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two in a blind tasting. This is partly because people reserve
Colourful, gnarly gourds are on the grocery shelves, we’ve had the first grilled acorn squash of the season, Okanagan pears and apples fill our fruit baskets and sweaters are making an appearance again. Harvest is in full swing across BC and the