BEST BOOTH LINEUPS AT THE FESTIVAL: Our annual best booths list is an ode to wineries that bring their top wines to the festival. Over 40 years, there has been a sea change in the global wine landscape, making it harder and harder to entice the world’s
As a perpetual student of wine, I always seek benchmark expressions that define a region’s typicity and quality – especially at walk-around tastings, where clear reference points are essential for assessing other wines. Choosing four is no
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