It's think pink, drink pink season. Rosé wines reach from bone dry and savoury, to sparkling and celebratory, and through to sweet and sultry. Just as pink is the halfway hue between white and red on the colour spectrum, drinking pink offers up
We know California is full of cool kids, but it's hard to know it's full of cool wines from our seats up in BC. Cool climate wines that is. Many winemakers and winegrowers are entirely on board with the international trend towards fresher, lighter, lower-throttle
It's year 43 for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, and while the show has been pared down as the wine industry returns from the pandemic, over 100 wineries are pouring 500 wines in the room. This week's expanded Top Ten highlights wines, wineries
After a two-year interruption, the California Wine Fair returned to Vancouver on April 25th. Sustainability was front and centre, with the focus on the Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing program. 80 percent of California wine is now certified
We have been travelling BC wine routes for a month now, looking for anything that would suggest we are getting back to normal. Understaffed wineries will likely welcome a cool spring as they get just a little extra time to prepare for what we hope will
Sangiovese is a prolific Italian red grape, deriving its name from the Latin sanguis Jovis, the blood of Jupiter. Though it is the most important grape of central Italy, from Romagna through Lazio, Campania, and Sicily, it is more famous as the only component
Our Top Ten lists are not definitive, but they are timely. The wines involved have usually just been tasted, and hence, are often still available. While we love to rail on about high prices, it doesn't mean we don't love high-quality wines, and that is
GoGamayGo. This humble hashtag, coined years ago by Canada's own Dr. Janet Dorozynski, has united gamay fans globally and become a rallying collective for a misunderstood red grape. Gamay isn't geeky anymore, long-shackled to the marketing mechanics
This week we offer a tiny break from the crushing rise in wine prices in British Columbia with a list of highly vetted red wines that represent at least a modicum of value. From supply issues to punitive taxes, consumers are being hammered from all sides.
Need wine for Valentine's Day? Here is a timely list for you to woo your beloved or intended. Chocolates are cliché, and rosés win out over roses any day. What about swapping the overpriced heart-shaped box for something that will get your
I still remember my entry-level wine class all those years ago, working through basic characteristics of key grapes. I knew next to nothing, and felt overwhelmed by all the material: new terms, foreign words, spitting in public. I recall how my ears perked
There is very little good news on the price front for wine. Good wine has become prohibitively expensive, and poor wine has become prohibitively expensive. High wine prices are particularly acute in BC, where our ad valorem, markup/tax system only adds
Our latest Top Ten celebrates the art of celebrating, something we haven’t done much of this year across British Columbia, and for good reason. From Covid to heat domes to wildfires to floods to Arctic outflows, no year has been more challenging
Let's keep it short today and get shopping. Supplies are tight for many wines. If it's not sitting in the port or on the high seas in a container, it is likely awaiting a highway to reopen to complete its journey, which means there is a good chance it
The simple hashtag GoGamayGo has become a rallying digital cry for this humble, characterful and somewhat idiosyncratic grape. Its full name, gamay noir à jus blanc, refers to the eccentricities that its skin is black, its juice is white, but the