Week four of our holiday wine guide looks at the ever popular varietal wine categories. Perhaps classic may be too strong a word, but before the introduction of blends, aromatics and off-the-beaten-track bottles, buying wine by grape variety was marketed
Most of you will attend at least one, if not several, holiday parties this month and to make sure you do not arrive empty-handed, we have come up with a number of gift ideas for the host. Hostess gifts are hardly obligatory, but during the holidays,
In today's ultra-competitive wine market getting a foot on the international wine stage is sometimes tougher than making top-flight wine. Fortunately, for British Columbia's wine producers the key to the stage door has arrived and it's called icewine. The
Week 2 of our holiday wine- buying guide takes us into the red section, providing the perfect complement to last week's aromatic picks. Regular readers will know the days of cabernet and merlot as the only go-to reds in the market are over.
91 Mission Hill Oculus 2006 Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada BC $70.00 winery direct, AB $70.00 private wine stores, ON $70.00 Vintages, consignment mark Anthony Oculus continues down the softer rounder richer path but slowly. Very peppery,
The recession may be fading at some level in British Columbia but for many in the wine business, the abrupt change in consumer buying habits has triggered a debate about just how much a person will spend on wine in the future. I feel sensible
1 Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Reserve 2005 95 $27 2 Numanthia-Termes Toro Termes 2005 96 $27 3 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 2007 95 $70 4 Kosta Browne Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
Vintage port has always been a long-lived wine in the bottle and in exceptional years, when the weather is perfect and the yields are low, it can live for many, many decades, indeed the best bottles, from the very best vintages will keep comfortably into
WHITES 89 Paul Mas Viognier 2008 L'Hérault, Vin de Pays d'Oc, Languedoc, South of France, France BC $14.00 specialty listing Jean Claude Mas blends viognier fruit from cool and warm sites using young and old vines and relatively low yields
A few thoughts this week, beginning with the very positive update on the Cellared in Canada (CiC) issue. As we reported Friday, the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch (BCLDB) has completed its investigation into the murky labelling issue and, after
Mainz, November 5th, 2009 - After a year of nearly perfect weather, wine-growers in all 13 German wine-growing regions are extremely pleased with the quality of the 2009 crop. "This year will go down in history as a truly great vintage," predicted Norbert
Calgary, AB - Wine Access magazine is thrilled to announce their 2009 Canadian Wine Awards Winery of the Year is British Columbia's Sandhill Winery. Each year, the expert judging panels at the Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards work their way
The current October-November issue of Wine Access magazine is on newsstands across the country, touting some of the best value wines in the country -- at least the ones that retail for less than $25. This year more than 1,000 wines were reviewed at the
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