Down Under wines will be the fare of the day Jan. 22 at the Australia Day Wine Fair at the Westin Bayshore. The public event runs from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and will include Australian wine, food, music and people. Interestingly, this year's focus will be on
It's no coincidence we begin the New Year with a look at one of the leading inexpensive wine brands in the world today -- Casillero del Diablo by Chilean wine giant Concha y Toro. With vineyards overflowing world wide you can expect to see a lot more
The last time I checked, Canadians were drinking French champagne at the rate of about three million bottles annually or roughly one bottle a year between 10 of us. It's a pathetic number when you consider the 59.1 million citizens of the United Kingdom
Here's the best advice anyone can give you about which wines to serve for Christmas dinner: get out and purchase them this weekend before the pressure of Christmas Eve arrives and stocks are depleted and the store clerks are frazzled. Today's picks will
There are many Port wine styles to choose from but the champion no-fuss, no-muss styles, in essence designed for holiday entertaining, are vintage character and late-bottled vintage (LBV). The thought behind vintage character Port is to try and offer
Today we continue our search for good-quality, inexpensive wine for home entertaining over the holidays. Readers I hear from are generally split on what an inexpensive wine is. For some it has to be under $10, others will spend up to $12 and, in some
Today we begin a month-long look at wines for the holiday season. It seems everyone I meet wants to know what to buy and serve at this time of the year and, for the most part, they would prefer to spend as little money as possible. Spending less shouldn't
Today we link the pristine vineyards and green philosophy of New Zealand's wine industry with the move to sustainable, organic viticulture in California's vineyards. Our tasting features six wines; three labels hail from Brancott Vineyards, perhaps better
Fire and ice are two words you could use to describe the year Okanagan Valley wine producers have experienced, although most would prefer to use the more important descriptor -- quality. Despite the smoke and life-threatening fires, the 2003 harvest
The decision to postpone the dismantling of the B.C. government liquor monopoly left a bitter taste in many mouths last month, not the least of them being the wine drinking community. After nearly three years of uncertainty, downsizing and zero retail
Today we turn our attention Down Under and to a pair of well established Australian producers: Wirra Wirra and Peter Lehmann. Both fall into what I would describe as an emerging level of mature New World wineries entering the British Columbia market. Despite
If you were given the task to design a grape that would produce some of the world's most long-lived and powerful wines, it seems unlikely that you would think about crossing a white grape with a red grape to accomplish your goals. Yet that's exactly
A rather remarkable Spaniard, César Saldaña, will be in Vancouver next week to lead a tasting of Spanish sherry. Saldaña is considered Spain's pre-eminent authority on the subject and is in Vancouver to present the story of sherry and no doubt
Snobbery, poor marketing stunts Argentine growth After 25 years spent tasting wine and nearly two decades writing about the subject, I don't expend a great deal of effort looking for inexpensive wine that tastes great. If it comes my way it is always
British Columbia wineries once again distinguished themselves on a national stage last week when the results of Wine Access magazine's 2003 Canadian Wine Awards were released. In fact, for the second year in a row, British Columbia vintners ran away
There was a time when exploring Sonoma County wine country was an afterthought -- as in a morning or an afternoon outing tacked on to a primary itinerary that featured Napa Valley. Now, with almost 50,000 acres of vineyards and more than 150 wineries,
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