Last December we tasted close to 300 Argentine wines during a one week stay in Mendoza. Our visits included morning tastings in the hotel followed by lunch, after noon and dinner meetings and tastings each day. The short story for Stuart
There is a great deal of optimism that Bill C-311, a private member's bill pro-posed by Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Dan Albas, will eventually pass through Parliament and quash a 1920s ban on the inter-provincial movement of liquor. But will the provincial
If you live on the edge of wine chances are you have already been discussing the concept of natural wines. If not, get ready, because "natural" is fast becoming a buzzword even in the sleepy, let's-not-change-a-thing varietal wine world. What
I enjoyed reading the olive oil stories that appeared in The Sun earlier this week and the push we were given to become savvier oil buyers. (If you missed it, you can still access the story online: vancouversun. com/life.) I'm a big fan of olive oil,
'Meet your Match" is the signature, hard-core wine tasting at the upcoming Vancouver Inter-national Playhouse Wine Festival but it is nothing like your normal festival tasting event. Meet Your Match is fashioned after the speed dating format, except instead
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is fast approaching. The annual wine show that normally occurs during late March-early April begins a full month early in 2012. Tickets to the Feb. 27 to March 4 events are already on sale (www.playhousewinefest.
Of all the trends in wine over the last few years my least favourite is the creeping level of sweetness in dry table wines. Wine drinkers have always talked dry and sipped sweet but, with viticulture so technically advanced and grapes picked riper and
If you're celebrating the new year tonight there is still time to reach for the ultimate celebration wine: champagne. The king of bubbles begins its life like most other wine. The grapes are pressed and fermented in large stainless steel vats, occasionally
If you've been reading along all year you likely have all your Christmas dinner wines purchased and comfortably resting at home awaiting tomorrow's dinner hour. If you've been otherwise occupied and waited until the last minute, time is running out. Most
Taylor Fladgate Port is one of wine's mystical names. It began in the 17th century when certain privileges were given to British merchants to establish trade between England and Portugal. In the case of Taylor it began in 1692 in the upper reaches of
Wine writers love to use the terms "best buy" and "best value" to make sure you pay attention to their review, 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
If you are in search of useful wine gifts, you are in luck. Today, we look at some of the basic requirements for any aspiring wine drinker and we pair them with appropriately tasty wine. It's one, or two-stop shopping, for wine lovers and these gifts
Real fall weather arrived this week in British Columbia. Although with so much snow in the forecast it seems as if winter isn't far behind. With much cooler temperatures, it's the perfect time to pull out the winter coat, or in this case Côte, as in
Early-bird tickets to the 2012 Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival go on sale at the end of the month, so it may be instructive to think about some of the better tweets coming out of Asia this week from WineFuture Hong Kong 2011. Spaniard
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