Canada should be proud of its recent wine history. We started getting serious about vitis vinifera in the 1970s. BC and Ontario started growing wine grapes and producing wines. Nova Scotia and Quebec have followed, and I heard, but have not seen, that there are also wines being produced in New Brunswick. Our climate since the 1970s has warmed up so we are also able to produce good quality red grapes for wine. For Canada’s 150th birthday, the Vancouver International Wine Festival decided to pick Canada as the theme country for the Festival. Wines from BC, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, showed Vancouverites, as well as visitors from around the world that we have something special to offer with our wines. Below are articles that I wrote about my adventures in the Festival tasting room, seminars and winery dinners. Enjoy.
VanWineFest 2017 – A Culmination of Flavours Dinner
VanWineFest 2017 – Heartbreak & Backache Seminar Part 1
VanWineFest 2017 – Heartbreak & Backache Seminar Part 2
VanWineFest 2017 – Trans Canada Tasting
VanWineFest 2017 – Celebrating California Cabs
VanWineFest 2017 – My Canadian Wine Picks Eh
VanWineFest 2017 – 15 Wine Picks from Around the World
Interviewing Wine Maker Bruce Nicholson from Inniskillin at VanWineFest 2017
Interviewing Wine Maker Randy Picton from Nk’Mip at VanWineFest 2017
Interviewing Terroir Hunter Pedro Parra from Chile at VanWineFest 2017
Interviewing Winery Owner Christa-Lee McWatters-Bond from Evolve Cellars at VanWineFest 2017
VanWineFest 2017 – The 2020 Vision & Declaration for an Organic Okanagan Valley in BC
Vancouver International Wine Festival 2017 Mondo del Vino youtube Video
