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
We wine writers love to use the term best buy or best value to make sure you pay attention to our reviews, but what does best value really mean when you open that bottle of wine? If price is seldom a measure of quality, can it possibly be a measure of
Today marks the ninth annual Best of B.C. wines release at 21 Signature B.C. Liquor Stores plus Dunbar, Caulfield, Peninsula Village (Surrey) and Brighouse (Richmond). Top B.C. wines are a rare sighting in government stores, mainly because local producers
Last week the provincial government rolled over and gave the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union everything they wanted, including a four per cent wage increase and a promise to kill plans to privatize the Liquor Distribution Branch. According
Look outside your window. Is that more sunshine than you have a right to expect? The longer this weather lingers, the happier winegrowers are all across British Columbia. As we head toward the end of the 2012 growing season and the birth of another harvest,
Spending a week with 640 of your closest readers can be a terrifying experience for any writer, but with the voyage complete -- including five on-board tastings and five hosted dinners -- I'm delighted to report I met the vast majority of Sun readers
Change is the only certainty in our lives, and it is no different in the wine business. So beginning next week, you can expect some minor modifications to this column and some of the wine content that appears in the Saturday Sun. Don't worry you will
A few days in Sonoma County confirms the California wine industry is finally getting back on track after a prolonged recession that has cut the legs out from under the fine wine business. It's been a struggle for California's premium producers who have
It's not too late to check out the wines featured in the Wines of South Africa (WOSA) display spread across some 75 BC Liquor Stores since early August. Many will still be in store displays this weekend or back in their original position in the South
I've been on the road for the last two months with just a few days at home sprinkled in between wine adventures and as a result, my office looks as if it could star on TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive. Despite the paper-less/Internet world we live in, wine
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