Sustainability has been a hot-button issue for consumers in the food and wine business for more than a decade now, and as we prepare to welcome the wine world to the upcoming Vancouver International Wine Festival in late February it seems appropriate
A month out from the Vancouver International Wine Festival, we begin our preview of some of the themes and questions likely to present themselves when the giant grape fest kicks off on Monday, Feb . 25. We begin with California, the theme region
Bits and pieces to start 2013 beginning with that age-old question, where have all the years gone? To be more precise, what happened to all the vintages at www.bcldb.com? Whose idea was it to stop publishing the year or vintage date for most
Whenever I'm lucky enough to be in Italy, I take my watch off. It's not so much that time stands still but rather that it moves at its own pace and that rarely includes 60 beats per minute. Italians can be gregarious talkers and use a whirlwind of gestures
If the number 2013 looks a bit weird to you this week, give it some time. But don't give it forever, in this frenetic Internet world. It's not 1970, when cheques trumped credit cards and banks gave you a month's leeway if you inadvertently penned the
As another year slips into the history books or some databank deep beneath the earth, all that's left is to usher in the new one. How you choose to welcome the New Year is up to you, but should you decide to have a drink or two, we suggest you can't go
The best advice anyone can give you about which wines to serve for Christmas dinner is to get out and purchase them this weekend, before the pressure of Christmas Eve arrives and stocks are depleted and the store clerks are frazzled. This week we
It's a funny thing about sparkling wine; it never gets the respect accorded Champagne although most consumers would have a great deal of trouble distinguishing between the two in a blind tasting. It is hardly a knock on Champagne but rather a nod to the
Today's the day you promised to start your holiday shopping, so we are going to make things easy for you if you have any wine drinkers on your gift list. Since simplicity equals elegance, let's look at some useful, perhaps conservative, gift ideas for
With a little over three weeks to go to Christmas, it is time to get serious about laying some wines in for the holidays. It is already taking far too long to get across the city and the chaotic holiday traffic is only going to get worse. So, if you are
The holidays are just around the corner and for many, that means shopping lists long on names and short on gift ideas. Wine will not solve all your problems, but in a city full of wine and food aficionados, we can safely say the fermented beverage is
The final results from the 2012 Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards were released in Ottawa last week and the news for B.C. wineries was very upbeat. The national wine magazine ranks the country's top wineries each year based on their performance at the
Late last month, Italian wine legend Angelo Gaja was in the city to showcase some of his wines and to help raise money for the BC Ride to Conquer Cancer. Thankfully, Gaja's generosity escaped the attention of British Columbia liquor licensing inspectors
Believe it or not, it's been 46 years since Robert Mondavi began popularizing the notion of drinking varietal wine, in essence striking a blow for simplicity in wine consumption. Mondavi and a handful of New World contemporaries focused on a series of
Last week I spent an illuminating afternoon in the Garnet Valley, a small Western side valley that T-bones the northern edge of Summerland, very near where Okanagan Lake makes its big turn north to Kelowna. My guides were Chilean Pedro Parra, renowned
quicksearch
Newer Posts