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
Gordon Fitzpatrick, President of CedarCreek Estate Winery, announces that it has entered into an agency agreement with Free House Wine + Spirits Ltd. to sell its wine in Western Canada effective March 19, 2009. Free House specializes in representing
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is still a couple of weeks out but sold out signs are beginning to appear all over the playhousewinefest.com site reminding us that in a matter of days there will be few if any tickets left for procrastinators. Year
By Mark Hicken, Special to the Sun In less than a year, British Columbians will welcome visitors from all over the world to the Winter Olympics. No doubt, our guests will be impressed by our hospitality, our stunning scenery and
Just as Eva Peron, the First lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952 catapulted herself from rags to riches, so too have the wines of South America's second largest country. Argentine wine sales are up nearly 40 per cent in North American markets and they
Six out of ten Americans are wine buyers according to a new interactive survey of wine drinkers from The Harris Poll. Not bad for a country that seemed stuck in wine drinking neutral most of the 1970s, 80s and early 90s. It seems wine is finally
During a recent trip to the Cape Lands of South Africa I was pleasantly surprised to discover a major shift in attitude and quality from SA producers. It's been a long road for some producers who felt that just showing up after the sanctions were finally
It's Valentine's Day and if you don't already have a reservation for dinner, traditionally one of the busiest nights of the year in restaurants, chances are you won't get one before 10 p.m. There's no need to panic there is still time to implement plan
Much has been written already about the 2008 vintage, for different reasons including the lower yields (15 to 25% less), oïdium pressure in Spring, ...It is true that weather conditions in France were not classical, but we must bear in mind that France
SPARKLING 86 Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut Cava Selección N/V Macabeo - Xarello - Parellada Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Penedès, Catalunya, Spain BC $15.00 general listing, AB $15.00, BC $29.00 (1500 ml) specialty listing, MB $14.00, NB $15.00,
At last some good news for the world's wine producers and from the most unlikely of places, Canada. Research released by the French behemoth wine fair VinExpo, and its U.K. research partner the IWSR, indicates the Canadian wine market is growing three
Quick report from Selbach-Oster: 2008 young wines and 2007 flashback It is early February 2009 and the juice from the last 2008 grapes picked, on 30th December, is bubbling away on its way to Eiswein. Here, as with the remainder of our 2008 harvest,
In one of those surreal moments in life I watched the American presidential inauguration from Cape Town, South Africa along with the rest of the Africa. In a troubled continent it seemed at least for a few moments that all of Africa shared the hope that
Viognier sales continue to struggle in this market with total varietal listings in government stores counting 23 labels or fewer than were available three years ago. Many point to its unpronounceable name but viognier, the experts say (vee-OWN-yay), should
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