St. Emilion, Bordeaux. Remarkable, incroyable, fantastique and amazing are only a few of the positive descriptors I heard the normally ultra conservative Bordelais winegrowers utter last week to describe the quality of the 2009 harvest in the St. Emilion/Pomerol/Fronsac
Calgary, AB - The coveted Winery of the Year Award at the Wine Access 2009 Canadian Wine Awards was a hotly contested prize. Wine Access magazine will reveal the winning winery on November 2nd, but in the meantime, we want to share the top 10 names vying
When you meet Antonio Bravo it is not hard to understand why his wine has that special something you can't put your finger on. The 39-year old winemaker began his working life as an agricultural engineer but it wasn't long before he turned his attention
Attending a tasting featuring 30 Sonoma County producers reminded me of how much I enjoy the style and poise of northern California wines. Sonoma owes most of its quality and refinement to its geographical position alongside California's cool Pacific
Last week's stories on "Cellared in Canada" have touched a raw nerve with wine drinkers and have been the topic of conversation just about everywhere I've been this week. While many people think the labelling issue should be cleaned up, just as many people
It has been a tough summer for Canada's wine image, under attack from the likes of respected English wine writer Jancis Robinson, the esteemed newsweekly the Economist, the world's largest-selling wine magazine the Wine Spectator and several unhappy Canadian
Hands up if you purchased a ticket to a winemaker dinner only to discover upon arrival that no winemaker was in attendance. While I'm often disappointed at this scenario, too, I've also attended enough winemaker's dinners to know that public speaking
There is often no way to describe Canadian liquor laws to foreigners other than to turn to Oliver Twist and the logic of Mr. Bumble. When faced with a charge of stealing jewelry, he outed his wife, claiming she was the guilty one: "It was all Mrs. Bumble."
Earlier this summer we mentioned feeling -- or should I say tasting -- a surge from the B.C. wine industry led by some individual producers with lofty personal goals and even higher aspirations. The push to raise the quality bar appears to be back on,
Bits and pieces waiting for columns that never materialized are the story this week, beginning with a thought that B.C. wines are much improved this year. There's a lot of hometown hype in this market, but that aside, I see some positive developments
When a single grape makes you think of a specific country or region, people in the wine business refer to it as a signature variety. Some well-known pairings include sauvignon blanc and New Zealand, pinotage and South Africa and cabernet sauvignon and
Our current Top Ten tasted plus ties...ag 91 CedarCreek Cabernet Sauvignon Platinum Reserve 2006 Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada BC $45.00 winery direct, VQA and private wine shops This has about as elegant styling as you will find
I have been spending some time up the coast with friends, not doing much of anything other than enjoying the weather and relaxing. I love these few days of the year when I actually drink wine as opposed to just tasting it. Not only that, for some strange
The following is our A-Z guide of the Best B.C Wines we have tasted in the past six months. The wines are organised by winery and within each set the reviews are sorted by grape variety. Please note - the minimum score required to make our list is 87
Where there's smoke there's fire, but is there smoke damage? It is a sensible enough question given the coverage of the wildfires in West Kelowna, but really, everyone should take a step back, take a deep breath of slightly smoky air and relax. The
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