Salt Spring Island's Garry Oaks Winery avoided using Meritage when it released its first Bordeaux blend last year under the name, Fetish. Elaine Kozak and Marcel Mercier, the two-year-old winery's owners, think Meritage is a "stuffy" word lacking resonance
The Nederburg Auction on April 9 reached the second highest total in its 31-year history, with sales reaching R7,49-million for 4,955 cases. The highly successful day culminated in prices for rare and special South African wines increasing by a whopping
VQA producers and B.C. liquor stores worked together last November to release a number of top-rated, hard-to-find, local wines in what turned out to be a wildly successful retail promotion. The process repeats April 16 in select government stores, albeit
The following is an 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 ― that means the chardonnay will appear before the pinot noir
Few people have salvaged opportunity from adversity like Leo and Andy Gebert, the brothers who (with their wives) run St. Hubertus Estate Winery at Kelowna. In the summer of 2003, the huge forest fire that consumed hundreds of homes in East Kelowna also
It's easy to get carried away when you are tasting the "home town" wines if only because you want them to show well, but that's why we go to great lengths to taste most B.C. wines alongside similar wines from the rest of the world. At gismondionwine.com
Yahoo Finance confirmed this morning that Pernod Ricard is moving toward a takeover of drinks giant Allied Domecq. LONDON (AFP) - British drinks giant Allied Domecq (LSE: ALLD.L - news - msgs) faced a potential takeover by smaller French rival
There is something about wine that brings out the worst in cliches. As I was pondering today's picks, I was somewhat reticent to write that there's never been a better time to be a wine drinker. As dreary as the words may look on paper, there really
Montreal, Quebec, March 31, 2005 ─ The official Wines of France website www.wines-france.com introduced in 2004 by the French Wines Trade Council (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins or "ONIVINS") has just launched four new languages
Coming off a remarkable sales performance spearheaded by huge interest in South Africa, the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival has announced that next year's festival, scheduled for Feb. 27 to March 5, will feature the theme regions of France. The
Beginning April 1, the provincial government will embark on two new initiatives to support B.C.'s wine and hospitality industries -- although they may turn out to be anything but supportive. In a statement released by the Solicitor General's office "wineries
The 27th Playhouse International Wine Festival was essentially sold out before it started this week -- capping perhaps its most successful year since its inception back in 1979. No hockey, a ravenous demand by a sizeable expatriate South African population
French extremists who sympathize with local wine producers have taken to marketing their wine in an explosive new way. Both Just Drinks and Decanter are reporting a bomb blast at La Baume winery in the Languedoc region of the south of France
An alliance of twelve winemakers who share a concern about current trends in the world wine business will be launched in Auckland today. It's called "The Family of 12" - a name which reflects their largely family based businesses and 12 is a traditional
Thanks to Alexander Payne's wine-stained, Oscar-nominated movie Sideways, organizers of next week's Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival should probably prepare for a run on pinot noir. Even though South Africa is the theme region and sauvignon
The international wine world pours into Vancouver this weekend in advance of the city's annual week-long convention of the grape. And as they have for well over two decades, the visitors will uncork, or twist the top off, the latest in wine from most
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