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
Conditions Weather conditions in winter and early spring 2012 were mild across southern Ontario and the wine growing regions. It was particularly warm in March and the vines started the growth cycle early. After a few frost concerns in April, the rest
It's Grey Cup week in Vancouver and with only one day to go before the big game, the question is, what will you be serving tomorrow? Beer has been the traditional go-to drink for football watchers, but there is plenty of evidence that that relationship
This is sort of a funny cheese for me to write about. I don't usually advertise it, but goat cheese is not my favourite. It's a very sad situation for a cheese lady to be in. I want to love them, and I try them often, but some goat cheeses really don't
Another Early Start for the BC Icewine Harvest (Kelowna, BC) Mere days after completion of the BC grape harvest, the 2011 Icewine harvest began. Once again, this marks one of the earliest starts to the Icewine harvest in BC, with the first grapes
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
Salve, As winter starts to close in on the valley, we finally have had a chance to sit back and reflect on the 2011 harvest. As spring turned to summer this year, the rains continued un-abated and there was general panic throughout the Okanagan
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
THE GIFT OF 2011 . . . One might think that if you were to design the perfect growing season for producing Pinot noir, you'd choose normal bud break in early April; sunny days for timely bloom and a modest fruit set; a warm, relatively dry summer,
The Best of BC Release is underway at 21 Signature and select BC Liquor Stores. The selection, as compiled by British Columbia portfolio manager Stephen Schiedel, offers you a glimpse at some of the best wines made in the province. As is the
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
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