Do you know how many wines will be presented at the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2017 Tasting Room? Around 800. Picking wines you really would like to try in your 3 hours of wine tasting would be like finding a needle…
In the wine world, cool climate areas are making exciting wines. Canada is viewed as cool climate, and I was wondering where we fall in the extreme north or south latitudes compared to other cool climate regions. Here is what…
O Canada! Our 150th birthday is next year, 2017, and we need to celebrate. The Vancouver International Wine Festival felt the spirit and chose Canada as the theme country for the Festival in 2017. It is not just wineries from…
Winemakers, just like butchers, bakers, and astrophysicists, have to go to school, in order to learn how things work, why they work that way, and best practices. In Canada there are colleges that offer wine making training; one such place…
Easter is a big holiday for many of us, where we get together with family and enjoy a big dinner. Easter is also leading us into Spring. Flowers are already blooming here in Vancouver, and I’m sure it will come…
As you may recall, earlier this year I set up a poll for Canadians asking some questions about the types of wines they like, how much they pay for wine, etc. Although I did not get as large a sample…
Last September I was first introduced to the wines of Flat Roof Manor, a winery located in the Stellenbosch region of South Africa. At that time I wrote about their Flat Roof Manor Malbec. Their wines are priced very aggressively and…
People are more concerned about where their food is coming from than ever before. The big push in the past was to get food trucked or flown in from around the world at the lowest price, but now people are…
Walking down the hallway, of The Shore Club in Toronto, with plush carpeting underfoot, past the wall of wines behind glass case I knew this was going to be an exceptional experience. The interior of the restaurant in dark colours,…