Wine and cheese pairings are great for holiday entertaining and when you want to enjoy by yourself. Today I have two VQA wines, one from BC, and one from Ontario, that I am pairing with a limited edition collectable box…
This is my third year interviewing winemakers in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. To get a more complete picture of the harvest I asked the following questions to three winemakers in three different grape growing regions…
You may not realize it but winemakers tend to travel across Canada and the world to make wines. In BC we do have winemakers from here, but there are many from New Zealand and also from the Niagara region in…
This is my second year interviewing winemakers in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. To get a more complete picture of the harvest I asked the following questions to three winemakers in three different grape growing regions…
I enjoy reading books. My interests, in particular, are around health & wellness, history, and food & wine. When I can find a fictional book that covers history as a backdrop, and then add in food & wine, that makes…
For the past few years, I have been covering the BC harvest by interviewing winemakers and finding out how the weather affected this year, what they may be doing new, and other tidbits of information. But I had not interviewed…
This past year I tasted a tremendous number of wines from around the world, but some wines really resonated with me. It may have been the great balance of fruit, sugar, acidity for a white wine, or the fruit, tannins…
Does it bother you when you are visiting a winery in another province, enjoy their wines, and ask them to ship you a case back to your home, and they can’t? Provincial politics gets in the way and prevents the…
Cool climate areas are prime areas for making elegant sparkling wines. Champagne is a cool region in France, and is well-known for their sparkling wines, for example. In Canada our sparkling wine industry has been booming in my opinion. As…
Where is Prince Edward County? Is it somewhere on Prince Edward Island? No, it’s in Ontario, between Toronto and Kingston, along Lake Ontario. I would classify it as a peninsula, but it is not long and thin, rather it is…