New Year's Eve is a great excuse to drink champagne or some other delightful sparkling wine. I don't think you really need an excuse but in case you do, this is the night for you. New Year's Eve evening is a great time for lingering over snacks with friends,
If you're celebrating the new year tonight there is still time to reach for the ultimate celebration wine: champagne. The king of bubbles begins its life like most other wine. The grapes are pressed and fermented in large stainless steel vats, occasionally
Register now to secure your workshop seats - once they're gone, they're gone! The day-by-day activities scheduled for the 8th ICCS are given below. Available speaker abstracts are indicated by underlined text. These can be viewed by clicking
If you've been reading along all year you likely have all your Christmas dinner wines purchased and comfortably resting at home awaiting tomorrow's dinner hour. If you've been otherwise occupied and waited until the last minute, time is running out. Most
Taylor Fladgate Port is one of wine's mystical names. It began in the 17th century when certain privileges were given to British merchants to establish trade between England and Portugal. In the case of Taylor it began in 1692 in the upper reaches of
Wine writers love to use the terms "best buy" and "best value" to make sure you pay attention to their review, but what does best value really mean when you open that bottle of wine? If price is seldom a measure of quality, can it possibly be a measure
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
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