Spending a week with 640 of your closest readers can be a terrifying experience for any writer, but with the voyage complete -- including five on-board tastings and five hosted dinners -- I'm delighted to report I met the vast majority of Sun readers
Anthony Gismondi's On the Road video series tours 26 wineries in the Okanagan, Similkameen and Lillooet regions. These videos include insights from vineyard owners and winemakers and a glimpse of the beautiful scenery of each area. Click to see the
Change is the only certainty in our lives, and it is no different in the wine business. So beginning next week, you can expect some minor modifications to this column and some of the wine content that appears in the Saturday Sun. Don't worry you will
A few days in Sonoma County confirms the California wine industry is finally getting back on track after a prolonged recession that has cut the legs out from under the fine wine business. It's been a struggle for California's premium producers who have
THE CLIMATE OF THE VINTAGE It is the change in the climate, characterized by long-lasting summer heat and lack of rainfall, which has caused the significant drop in the production of grapes in Italy's 2012 vintage; for the same reason, 2007,
Vignobles Dourthe Harvest 2012: Almost perfect summer conditions follow an unsettled spring "Yet another year where Mother Nature kept us on our toes. With changeable, fresh and humid conditions from April to mid-July creating challenging conditions
It's not too late to check out the wines featured in the Wines of South Africa (WOSA) display spread across some 75 BC Liquor Stores since early August. Many will still be in store displays this weekend or back in their original position in the South
We have been immersed in the 2012 harvest for 3 weeks now and like all harvests, this one too has special characters that make it unique. This year will be remembered for its absolute absence of rain; apart from an abundant snowfall at beginning
I've been on the road for the last two months with just a few days at home sprinkled in between wine adventures and as a result, my office looks as if it could star on TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive. Despite the paper-less/Internet world we live in, wine
By the time you read this I'll be wrapping up the 12th Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards competition in Penticton. The number of entries in the 2012 competition is a record breaking 1,247 wines from across the country. Almost everyone who counts in the
It has hardly been a hot summer but the odd splash of heat should inspire you to shift your wine drinking habits, at least for the last half of the season, to fresher, if slightly off-the-beaten-track, wines. It's especially important if you want to be
There is nothing but Riesling on our radar this week. I thought it might be appropriate given how under-represented it is as a varietal wine on restaurant wine lists and well, now that you can BYOW to many restaurants, I'm encouraging you to bag, bottle
Some thoughts and questions on the latest change to our liquor laws announced last week that allows you to take your own wine into a restaurant. If you missed it: here's a recap. British Columbians, perhaps the savviest wine drinkers in the country, are
In a week when your server melts down, and I don't mean a waiter in a restaurant, you learn just how connected you are to the Internet, or should I say were. In some ways, it's liberating to see a blank computer screen before the terror sets in and the
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