I'm in California wine country this week attending a weeklong summit on California wine. The Golden State is back in the driver's seat in Canada, where sales of California wine are on fire. I'm delighted to report that there have been no
The most important wine competition in Canada is held once a year somewhere in Canadian wine country and it takes a full week of work to find out who is making the best wine. The newly minted WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada, a.k.a.
What is an Okanagan Crush Pad and why should I visit the place? It's a question I get a lot from curious wine travellers who can't quite seem to wrap their heads around the Summerland-based winery, or is that a consulting winery business? Okanagan
This week, as a result of the 2013 WineAlign NationalWine Awards in Toronto, Mission Hill Family Estate Winery was named theCanadian Winery of the Year. The National Wine Awards of Canada is the new nameof the 12-year old Canadian Wine Awards run by Wine
Summer unofficially comes to a screeching halt this weekend, not because the calendar says so but because for most of us, our work calendars and our back-to-school calendars, say so. Labour Day tends to focus our personal time clocks too as we begin
I've been on the road for two weeks working and vacationing and I have been tasting a fair bit of Riesling. It's an easy choice given the warm weather, Riesling's lower alcohol content, its fresh, fruity, flavour profile and its ability to work so
It's been more than a year since Washington closed its state liquor stores. In a recent Seattle Times editorial the paper suggested liquor privatization in Washington "is working as advertised and the social disaster predicted by supporters of state
This week's column is courtesy of a reader flummoxed by an Australian wine label. He writes. "On Saturday, Aug. 3, I purchased a 2-litre carton of Stanley Wines of Australia blend, Chenin, Semillon, Chardonnay. When I was putting the carton in the
It would be extremely naive to assume that every wine placed on a wine list is there because it deserves to be there. Quality and value are noble words but they often have precious little to do with a wine's position on any wine list. In a recent study
I never thought I would be writing a wine column that would place in close juxtaposition Hollywood royals Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with British Columbian wine-growers Ezra and Gabriel Cipes of Summerhill Pyramid Winery. But just as politics
Not every bit of news about wine is column-worthy. So this week on the cusp of a massive office cleanup, and a move to new laptop, I'm sharing wine tidbits that are just never going to make it into a full-length column by the end of summer. Let's
It's been more than a decade since twist or screw cap closures were first mentioned in this column. There was widespread opposition from producers in Europe, North and South America (and more than few skeptical consumers) at the time but
Thanks to Susy Atkins at TheTelegraph in London for reminding us that if we are going to be moving offthose massive rich red wines for summer we can't haul then out as soon as wefire up the backyard barbecue. Just because you like to char your
This first week of summer I found myself in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont ., in the thick of the WineAlign 2013 National Wine Awards of Canada. With the demise of Wine Access Magazine, WineAlign, a Toronto-based online wine site, launched The Nationals
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