Watch for a new name that's part of the Australian wine juggernaut that continues to roll through B.C. liquor stores: Peter Lehmann. Why it took so long for his wines to appear in B.C. is anybody's guess, but they're now arriving, and they bring another
Memphis Blues Barbeque House 1465 West Broadway, Vancouver 604/738-6806 Get your butt here early. Memphis Blues has been an instant success since restaurateur George Sui and wine nut Park Heffelfinger opened their authentic Southern baah-be-cue in
Last month I reviewed a number of wines that were part of a pilot project developed to introduce exciting new products to government liquor store shelves. Since that column appeared, I've had a chance to take a deeper look at the program and I really
Chile's Colchagua Valley (pronounced cole-CHOW-wha) has been producing wine for more than 400 years - an admirable record, but as with most New World wine producers, be they young or old, it's what they've made in the last two decades that really counts. Colchagua
Argentina's current economic woes aside, a decade of serious winemaking there has reasserted the right of South America's largest producer to prominence on the international wine map. The formula to convert rustic, meaty dry reds and thin, acidic, fruitless
Matching food and wine is big business at California's Fetzer Vineyards, and the company has puts its money where its mouth is by developing one of the most impressive working gardens and culinary centres in the business. I recently spent a day at
It's taken 80-plus years, but it looks as if the Okanagan Valley has at last recognized one of its most important assets: the wine industry. By that I mean that grape growers, winery owners, barrel and tank manufacturers, label designers and other
B.C. offers only one road to riches for any aspiring wine distributor or producer, and that's through government liquor stores. Getting your foot in the door at the monopoly means getting a listing - whether it's the Holy Grail of all, the "general
Over the last decade, Earls restaurants have enjoyed great success by focusing on high-quality, fresh-only, seasonal ingredients. Now, after years of research, travel and testing to learn as much as possible about food, the savvy, upscale chain has turned
No one should underestimate the capacity of British Columbians to work a tasting room, least of all the people who work in this market, yet successive sold-out, public tastings in January and February featuring the popular wines of Australia and Napa
If you're looking for something sweet for Valentines Day, B.C. icewine producers could use a boost after completing what can only be described as the icewine harvest from hell. Certainly no one will soon forget the harvest of 2001 because those who
When the doors open to the Victoria Festival of Wine, Music and Food on March 7 organisers are betting on a new formula which combats local wines against those of a prominent foreign country to spice up the proceedings. Already over 50 B.C. wineries
Today's destination is Chile, for a look at the ever-evolving wines of Caliterra. B.C. sippers with long memories may recall the birth of Caliterra back in 1989, when it was solely owned by the Eduardo Chadwick family, which also has Viña Errazuriz. There
The allure of wine festivals isn't quite what it used to be, mostly because there seems to be one every other week and many of those have become perfunctory, commercial fundraisers often run by people that have little passion for the subject. That
In 2001, British Columbians drank their way through a record 350,000 cases of Australian wine and spent $50 million in the process. Those numbers represent eight per cent of the volume (and nearly 11 per cent of the value) of all wines purchased in
In a wine world where a little glitz and a lot of chutzpah can propel a mediocre winery to the front page of almost any wine magazine it's reassuring to know that there is still room for a nose-to-the-grind-stone, hardworking, winery whose only calling
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