This week's Playhouse Wine Festival focuses most of its attention on the international scene, but with experts from 130 producers from around the world in Vancouver, it seemed like an excellent opportunity to expose some of these global wine warriors
Late last year, New Zealand's largest wine producer, Montana Wines, swallowed its closest competitor, Corbans. The new and formidable company, which operates under the moniker Brancott Vineyards, now produces one of every two bottles made in New Zealand.
European wine labels can be both precise and vague at the same time. That's what makes them so confusing to us New World wine drinkers who seem to take more comfort in knowing which grape we are drinking rather than where it is grown. Understand that,
The 21st annual California Wine Fair Tour stops in Vancouver next Tuesday and Wednesday to pour more than 225 wines from 60 Golden State producers. The 2001 travelling road show, which is one of the largest to criss-cross Canada in years, is the most
When the 23rd Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival opens in the first the week of April, the focus will be on Spain. That means you have only a month to brush up on your Spanish language and wine skills before you wander about the massive international
Burgundian Amaury Devillard made a quick stop in Vancouver recently to unveil several new wines sold under his family's highly regarded negociant label Antonin Rodet. He poured several wines for the wine trade at an early afternoon tasting before he spoke
Today, a look at two very different but well-established California wineries that have made the transition from fierce competitors to friendly rivals. Although dramatically different in style, Callaway Winery and Clos du Bois are owned by the same company,
One thing I've learned over the years is to avoid writing about wines consumers can't easily access. While that's a good rule for rare labels and minute quantities of imported wine, it can mean some of the best local products fail to get their due. Vancouver
All producers in the wine world must have dreamed of a memorable vintage that would bear the magic 2000 number.Y2K in Alsace will be one of the best in recent years, with normal volumes with very good general levels of ripeness for all varieties. All
"If pinot noir is the bitch of all grape varieties to grow and vinify, than shiraz is surely a product of mother earth herself," or so says Bob McLean, managing director of St. Hallett's Winery of Australia's Barossa Valley. McLean's Old Block Shiraz,
The serene courtyard of the Villa Delia, a cooking school and a hotel on an estate named after Umberto's mother, opened in 1993 after an expenditure of $7 - million for improvements and renovations. Mention Umberto Menghi's name at a gathering of Vancouver
Late-bottled vintage (or LBV) port is the no-fuss, no-mess, ready-to-pour drink from Portugal. As the name implies, an LBV is a single-vintage wine that is bottled later than most other port types. It begins life in a wooden barrel and, until the two-year
Austrian wines disappeared from B.C. liquor stores more than a decade ago. They enjoyed limited success here in the late 1970s and early '80s, and most of that was for fairly sweet, late-harvest wines. In 1985, a very public scandal in which some
Sangiovese was most likely used in winemaking during the height of the Roman Empire although it wasn't until a thousand years later that it was officially recognized. According to Darrell Corti of Corti Brothers Wine Merchants in Sacramento, a 16th-Century
If you imagine the wine production of the Rhone Valley as a pyramid, then Cotes du Rhone red and white would be the base. The French appellation's 110,000 acres of vineyard are responsible for almost 90 per cent of the total production of Rhone wines.
Robert Skalli is at it again. A decade after he launched his visionary Mediterranean varietals under the name of Fortant de France, capturing 30 per cent of the French varietal market and establishing Fortant as an international force, word comes that
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