FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL WILL CONTINUE Vancouver, BC, March 9, 2012 - In light of today's news about the Playhouse Theatre Company winding down operations, the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival
There is little doubt that the Cabernet Sauvignon grape is responsible for some of the biggest (tannic) wines on the planet. Cabernet is the underlying grape theme at this year Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, and I'm betting many attendees
The Playhouse International Wine Festival begins Monday amid speculation surrounding the B.C. government's intentions to divest itself of its warehouse and distribution assets as they pertain to liquor. I stress the word distribution because, as far as
We love value at Gismondi on Wine but we also know that value comes at all price points. Because we taste some three thousand wines a year, record notes and keep track of the scores we have an impressive database from which to choose our favourite value
The BC budget was announced today and the government looks as if it will shed its liquor distribution centres and pocket the money from the sale of the property. This will change very little if anything for the consumers although many would suggest delivery
A significant portion of the international wine world is on its way to North America, and eventually, 175 winery principals will make their way to Vancouver, a week Monday, for the 34th Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. It has me thinking
Last December we tasted close to 300 Argentine wines during a one week stay in Mendoza. Our visits included morning tastings in the hotel followed by lunch, after noon and dinner meetings and tastings each day. The short story for Stuart
91 Tantalus Old Vines Riesling 2008 Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaBC $30.00 specialty listingOld Vines is the definition of iconoclastic. Freethinking and individualistic, the fruit (essentially grown organically) comes off a single block planted
There is a great deal of optimism that Bill C-311, a private member's bill pro-posed by Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Dan Albas, will eventually pass through Parliament and quash a 1920s ban on the inter-provincial movement of liquor. But will the provincial
If you live on the edge of wine chances are you have already been discussing the concept of natural wines. If not, get ready, because "natural" is fast becoming a buzzword even in the sleepy, let's-not-change-a-thing varietal wine world. What
I enjoyed reading the olive oil stories that appeared in The Sun earlier this week and the push we were given to become savvier oil buyers. (If you missed it, you can still access the story online: vancouversun. com/life.) I'm a big fan of olive oil,
'Meet your Match" is the signature, hard-core wine tasting at the upcoming Vancouver Inter-national Playhouse Wine Festival but it is nothing like your normal festival tasting event. Meet Your Match is fashioned after the speed dating format, except instead
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is fast approaching. The annual wine show that normally occurs during late March-early April begins a full month early in 2012. Tickets to the Feb. 27 to March 4 events are already on sale (www.playhousewinefest.
Of all the trends in wine over the last few years my least favourite is the creeping level of sweetness in dry table wines. Wine drinkers have always talked dry and sipped sweet but, with viticulture so technically advanced and grapes picked riper and
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