The British Columbia Sparkling Wine Report is one in a series of four annual reports on key fizz categories put out by Gismondi on Wine in 2020, spearheaded by our sparkling wine specialist Treve Ring. Click here to read our thoughts on Ontario / Nova
2020 certainly hasn't been a year much worth celebrating, especially if you're a grower, vineyard worker, or producer in Champagne. There is no single category of wine that has been more dramatically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic than champagne. As
A tasty cheddar substitute, so to speak, for your Holiday entertaining is White Fox. It looks like cheddar but it comes with more gravitas. Cheese Name: White Fox Origin: Made by Belton Farms in Shropshire, UK. Milk Type: Pasteurized
This is the perfect weather for a glass of Port and a slice of Saint Agur. Cheese Name: Saint Agur Origin: Saint Agur is made by the Compagnie Fromagère de la Vallèe l’Ance in the town of Beauzac in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
As one of the largest wine producers in British Columbia, Mission Hill needs no introduction. The wines are ubiquitous on store shelves, and their iconic bell tower winery is besieged by tourists every summer. No, what Mission Hill needs is a reintroduction.
Upon surveying growers and vintners across the region the Mendocino WineGrowers (MWI) is happy to announce that the 2020 vintage is showing amazing quality with smaller berries, intense flavor and great color. MWI predicts that the 2020 vintage will
Add this washed rind mountain cheese to your regular repertoire. Cheese Name: Vacherin, by Fruitières Chabret, where the term Fruitières in the Savoie and Franche-Comtè regions designate a mountain dairy. Origin: This version
Michael Bartier is a one-of-a-kind winegrower with a deep connection to his birthplace, the Okanagan Valley. Like many locals, you have an equal chance of meeting Michael and his wife Jodi cycling up a mountain during the summer or skiing down it in winter
While the harvest in the Rhone Valley ended a few days ago, Jacques Grange, Delas Technical Director, unveiled some of the specificities of the vinatge. When we sent out our Delas vineyard ‘flowering report’ in early May we informed you of
A great match for a glass of one your favourite local pinot noirs. Cheese Name: Prima Donna Maturo Origin: Made by the Vandersterre Group in The Netherlands Milk Type: Cow’s milk Style: Prima Donna is an aged hard cheese. The idea
Last January I touched down in Queenstown, Central Otago to participate in what proved to be a week full of pinot noir revelations and insights. The Idea and Context My last visit was seven years ago, and progress was palpable. The occasion was the
The 2020 grape harvest across British Columbia is complete with only a few red fermentations yet to be pressed off. We hope you have enjoyed our forays into the vineyards on picking days and the chance to stand inside the ropes on the crush pad. We have
Terroir does not innately tell us which grapes to grow or what wines to bottle. Some varieties may be more suitable than others, but even that’s not static. With climate change, wine regions are necessarily exploring alternate grape varieties to
For those who live, breathe and taste wine daily, in our case, for some four decades, it is exciting to find wines that offer something exceptional. These are wines that tell a story about a place, producer, and time, providing transparency and authenticity,
BC's relative youth and adventuresome spirit are inspiring wineries to experiment with styles, as much as they have with grapes and more recently exploring sub-regions. Sparkling wines of all types have exploded across the province over the past few years,
There’s a lot of talk about the 2015 Brunello di Montalcino wines. Growers were no doubt thrilled to put the challenging 2014s behind them quickly. But the hype about the 2015s is mostly well deserved. Yes, it was a warm year, but it also wasn’t
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