SPARKLING 86 Road 13 Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2006 Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaBC $0.00 winery onlyLight biscuit, toasty, green apple skin, mineral aromas. Crisp, fresh, dry, tart palate with light but fine mousse. More green apple
W.C. Fields is said to have boasted that "He always cooked with wine and sometimes he even put some in the food." Humour aside, cooking with wine makes a lot of sense to me given the natural affinity wines have with food. Today we twist the theme of cooking
Back in April I wrote that while we had a few weeks to go, it was fair to say that as a winemaking team, we're very happy with the quality of the 2009 vintage. Looking back, we started crushing on 30 January and this eclipsed the previous earliest start
Earlier this year I spent a number of days travelling about the Cape of Good Hope exploring the latest in South African wine. Based on my tastings, it is clear Cape producers could carve out a reasonable piece of market share in this country if they were
Just how long should one lay down or cellar wine, and to what purpose? Better yet, how will you ever know when they are ready to drink? Proper wine cellars are not common, but makeshift rooms in the basement appear with frequency, and many apartments
It's not all that difficult to understand why Oliver refers to itself as the wine capital of Canada. The Okanagan town that lies some 40 kilometres south of Penticton and a mere 20 kilometres from Osoyoos and the American border is surrounded by wineries
Some would say the Bordeaux wine market came to its senses this week when Hubert de Boüard, owner of Château Angélus, a grand cru of Saint-Emilion, set the price for his 2008 harvest at 50 euros per bottle, one-half the 100 euros it sold for the year
Stunning is the word used by winemakers, wineries and growers alike to describe the 2009 grape harvest that is drawing to a close this week. There have been similar growing degree days to 2007 but with the significant difference being less rainfall
87 Barcello Canyon Pinot Diablo 2006 Similkameen Valley, British Columbia, Canada BC $18.00 VQA wine stores Minty, stewed cherry, riparian, tobacco, leather, pruny, spicy nose. Round, lightly sweet palate with peppery, pruny, rancio, tobacco leaf,
Alberta wine buyers, often portrayed as the luckiest in the country thanks to their tiny, flat wine tax, were hit with a substantial increase this week as the provincial government, reeling from falling oil revenues, decided to up the ante on a more reliable
BUBBLE 85 Voga Pinot Grigio Vino Spumante Extra Dry N/V Veneto, ItalyBC $15.00 specialty listing, AB $17.00 private wine stores, MB $15.00, NS $16.00, ON $14.00, QC $16.00I often wonder why we are so lucky here in Canada to experience every commercial
The Juno Awards may have scooped most of the media last weekend but it didn't hurt the crowds at the Playhouse wine bash. All three evening public tasting sessions were sold out as usual. It had to be a thrilling, if in some cases daunting week, for
The 31st Playhouse International Wine Festival wraps up this weekend with a number of sold-out events still to be consummated. If there is a story this week, it might be the search for high-quality wines selling at affordable prices. When I say affordable,
The wine world is in Vancouver this coming week for the 31st Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival and there will be plenty of discussion about the economy. With almost every wine producing country in the midst of its worst economic downturn
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