SPARKLING 87 Jacob's Creek Chardonnay Pinot Noir Brut Cuvee N/V Chardonnay - Pinot Noir Australia BC $14.00 specialty listing New to the market and a fun addition for those of you who want a dry but fruity sparkler without the aggressive acidity.
91 Blue Mountain Pinot Noir Reserve (Stripe Label) 2008 Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada BC $36.00 special order - Keystone Fine Wines The Striped Label Reserve is a blend of five clones and older vines - 19 to 25 years of
(Kelowna, BC) As the temperature continues to drop, harvest is winding down throughout British Columbia and, overall, vintners are extremely happy with the fruit quality from the 2011 vintage. In the Okanagan, most wineries are in the final stages
Austria's 2011 vintage finally has the cellars full again. The weather gave us healthy and ripe grapes for the most part - a reward for all the good work and for the challenges over the last few years. The warm Summer this year did present its own challenges
2011 Vintage in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, an Exceptional Year! Harvest season has always been the moment of truth for the thousands of grape producers across France. Despite rather unusual weather throughout the summer, the Languedoc-Roussillon
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," at least according to the Liza Doolittle's character in My Fair Lady. Yet as much as that sentence was crafted to help her correctly pronounce the English language, a meteorologist she ain't. Having just traversed
A Taste of Black Rock Resort has come and gone and so, too, have nearly 100 lucky Vancouver Sun subscribers who joined us in Ucluelet last weekend to taste wine, dine, hike and enjoy the fabulous West Coast lifestyle. After spending three days with so
Eduardo Chadwick grew up in the shadows of the 6,959 metre high Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Southern Hemisphere. Some 50 years later, his winery - Viña Errazuriz - has taken up the Aconcagua (pronounced ACK-Can-COW-ah) mantle placing the
Tony Bish was recently in Vancouver, but I was not, at the time. He kindly sent along some wines, and articulated some answers to our questions about Sacred Hill. How would you describe the climate in your region? We grow mainly
As the 2011 Okanagan Wine Festival winds down, most wineries will only be starting to get into the thick of the harvest. Most of the early-picked grapes harvested over the last 10 days, and even that's not so early, are deliberately picked at lower sugars
When Americans start talking about taxing the rich and removing personal tax deductions such as mortgage payments, the economy is moving into a sector few if any living experts have ever experienced. We can argue over whether we are in another downturn,
With the plethora of wines from the New World at competitive prices Bordeaux recently has been running under the radar in North America. However there is always a buzz of excitement when a new year is released commercially normally some three years
The quote of the year in the wine business, at least so far, appeared in an online Decanter magazine story earlier this week covering the 2011 harvest in Bordeaux. An unnamed Bordeaux producer of a renowned left bank château was quoted as saying, '"We
The Chenin Blanc Association of South Africa traces the history of its prized grape as far back as the ninth century to the Anjou, Loire Valley region in France. It was likely referred to as Chenere before it was renamed Chenin Blanc, after Mont Chenin
Earlier this summer, I was one of two dozen judges at the 6th Wine Access International Value Wine Awards (IVWA) competition in Calgary. The blind tasting event is run by Wine Access Magazine out of Calgary, where I have been the Vancouver-based editor-in
Roquefort is probably the best known and the possibly the most misunderstood of blue cheeses from France. We all know the name, but do we know to what precise specifications this AOC gem is made? Roquefort is made from fresh sheep's milk, taken from
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