There's only a few days left to check out the current New Releases program in B.C. Liquor Stores before the next round begins. Normally we get to these earlier in the cycle, but this is the first chance we've had to slide them into the column. As I have
I enjoyed the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards this week. Although like The Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, I'm adding the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel to my list of local establishments that employ very poor wine glasses. You know
A few weeks ago an item on this page pointed out that Wine & Spirits magazine's 18th Annual Restaurant Wine Poll reported cabernet sauvignon as the most popular varietal wine poured in America's top restaurants. The hefty red accounts for 17.5 per cent
It's over, but the 2007 Playhouse International Wine Festival will not be so easy to forget. The Australians did a fabulous job in their theme country role, effortlessly pulling the Oz category in single, well-defined direction, something Canadian and
Will they or won't they? It seems the Italians have yet to decide whether, or not, they would like to headline the 30th Playhouse festival in 2008. I'm not surprised. I can't recall who described Italy as a country of 58 million people each pulling in
A year away from its 30th birthday, the week-long annual grape bash has never been more popular or better accepted by the public. Canada's premier wine show, and believe me no one is close to topping this event, is all but sold out as the international
Much has been said about Australia, the upcoming theme of the 29th Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, but when the tasting doors open at the end of the month the underlying theme for the week, the riesling grape, could steal the show. In
It's wine festival month, and while normally we would be writing about which event you might want to attend it seems you already want to go to everything -- and you have been busy buying tickets in record numbers. It would also appear Australia is as
If you are one of those people with too much money on your hands and you are currently mulling over the prospect of opening a B.C. winery, you may want to heed the blueprint of one of the Okanagan's biggest success stories, Sandhill. It's not often that
Women were front and centre this week in Vancouver from Finance Minister Carole Taylor whose budget gave us a back a tiny fraction of the exorbitant taxes applied to wine in B.C., to an impressive group of globetrotting wine woman here to sell their product. I
It's a rare week that includes even one visiting French vintner in Vancouver. So you have to ask, how is that nearly 40 vignerons, from all parts of France, including several bio-dynamic producers, found there way to Colombie-Britannique this week and
There's something about Spanish wine that seems right for our current palate. Not that it's causing a head-long rush in wine shops, like Australia, but it's a steady movement. Maybe it's the small producers, the non-conformity, the plethora of grapes,
It's time to get serious about the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival if you are planning on attending any of this year's events. The 29th edition celebrates Australia as its theme and it will also focus on the riesling grape, both inside
It was 1998 when Florence-based Piero Antinori made the decision to invest in the southern Italian region of Puglia. Now, after almost a decade of hard work, the results of the Tormaresca initiative are beginning to arrive in Canada. Viticulture is nothing
The Canadian wine industry was toasted then roasted last week by one of the most influential wine writers in the business. Jancis Robinson, surely England's brightest wine scribe, was in Ontario, at the behest of Toronto-based sommeliers Zoltan and John
The combination of storms and the first cold weather of the year, here in the Lower Mainland, had me thinking about port this week. Inspired, I re-tasted some old favourites, and few new labels, and as it happens, the results fall into two neat categories
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