The annual Taste of Australian Wine Fair returns to Vancouver next Tuesday evening to what organizers expect will be a sell-out crowd of 450. When it comes to imported wine, Australia rules in B.C. At the end of September, 2004 a 12-month running total
Last fall, when Burrowing Owl wound up its consulting agreement (amicably) with California winemaker Bill Dyer, Jim Wyse assured me that "we are going to keep Bill's recipes." The winery has recently released some of the wines from Dyer's last two vintages
It wasn't all that long ago that BCLDB buyers were rejecting the wines of Barefoot Cellars because its cheeky labels and marketing implied people were having way too much fun drinking Barefoot...usually barefoot. Today comes news that one of
Calona Vineyards winemaker Howard Soon received a fine accolade recently from a mechanic working on his car. The mechanic had discovered that Soon worked for Calona, although he did not know that Soon is the senior winemaker. The mechanic volunteered
Everybody wants to uncover a best buy when they go wine shopping. But what is a best buy? If, like me, you believe best buys are about value, that means the moniker could include wines of all prices. That's a far cry from the inexpensive, under-$10 wines
Temperatures plunged across the province this week, jump-starting the 2004 Okanagan icewine harvest -- even if it's already 2005. According to winemaker Tilman Hainle conditions were perfect for an icewine harvest, "it was cold enough that we had plenty
Westbank, British Columbia: It was quite a homecoming for Mission Hill Family Estate winemaker John Simes. Just off the plane from a family vacation in Maui, he returned to the winery to oversee this year's Icewine harvest with vineyard operations manager
The 2004 wine year has come and gone but not without some big stories. Although drinking wine has been a part of the West Coast lifestyle for nearly three decades, it would appear the rest of North America is beginning to pay more and more attention to
The 2004 vintage for BC wines will appear on store shelves in February 2005, and last summer's hot weather should mean an excellent vintage. Cool late-summer weather added to its complexity, says a senior winemaker Bruce Nicholson at Jackson Triggs in
Welcome to our Top 100 wines and ties for the year 2004. What follows are the 100 best wines we tasted and rated out of 100 points in 2004. Those wines bearing identical scores are listed in alphabetical order. 96 Fonseca Vintage Port 2000 Touriga
Gismondi on Wine Our 2004 Top 100by Anthony Gismondi and Stuart Tobe We taste thousands of wines a year including a large number of wines that are no longer available through traditional retail channels. This list is our top 100 picks that for
Champagne and cheese may seem like an unlikely pairing but according to local cheese mavens, Alice and Alison Spurrell, owners of the popular Kitsilano cheese shop Les Amis du Fromage, there's nothing quite like it. Given champagne's lean, acid makeup
I spend most of my life trying to avoid "turkey" wines but, come December, turkey has a whole new meaning and the question everyone wants answered is, "Which wine should I serve with Christmas dinner?" If you haven't already torn out this page and are
Last week's gift suggestions garnered mixed reactions from some readers who clearly prefer to serve well-chosen, inexpensive wine rather than buying pricey presents for their loved ones. You can't please everyone. Today we look at two of the founding
The long awaited birth of the B.C. Wine Authority was announced on December 7 by John van Dongen, Minister of Agriculture Food and Fisheries or was it. In a "meatless" release that managed to thank the premier and sport quotes from Okanagan Westside MLA
Two wine makers employed by KWV were dismissed after it was established that they were guilty of manipulating two lots of the company's 2004 Sauvignon Blanc wines. This follows a comprehensive investigation by the Wine and Spirits Board (WSB) about
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