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
By the time you read this I'll be wrapping up the 12th Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards competition in Penticton. The number of entries in the 2012 competition is a record breaking 1,247 wines from across the country. Almost everyone who counts in the
It has hardly been a hot summer but the odd splash of heat should inspire you to shift your wine drinking habits, at least for the last half of the season, to fresher, if slightly off-the-beaten-track, wines. It's especially important if you want to be
There is nothing but Riesling on our radar this week. I thought it might be appropriate given how under-represented it is as a varietal wine on restaurant wine lists and well, now that you can BYOW to many restaurants, I'm encouraging you to bag, bottle
Some thoughts and questions on the latest change to our liquor laws announced last week that allows you to take your own wine into a restaurant. If you missed it: here's a recap. British Columbians, perhaps the savviest wine drinkers in the country, are
In a week when your server melts down, and I don't mean a waiter in a restaurant, you learn just how connected you are to the Internet, or should I say were. In some ways, it's liberating to see a blank computer screen before the terror sets in and the
Earlier this month the office of the Lieutenant-governor Stephen L. Point announced the list of 2012 winners of the Lieutenant-governor's Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines. This year's competition attracted nearly 350 wines from a record
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