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Top Drop Vancouver 2022 was on May 10 and 11. Part of the event was a large tasting room, with 40 wineries presenting a selection of their wines. There was also to my great happiness, cider as well, which I will get to later in this article. Top Drop Canada puts on this event yearly (except during the COVID shutdown),…
Did you know that there are distillers in Canada producing single malt whisky? One, the Glenora Distillery, in Nova Scotia has produced a special 10-year-old Single Malt Whisky to commemorate our Royal Canadian Artillery, plus a portion of each sale will be donated to the Association. Read on and order if you are a whisky lover. The press release. ~~~…
Are you a beer drinker? And a whisky drinker? Did you know that whisky starts off by fermenting grains (just like beer) to release sugars that yeasts will eventually convert into alcohol? The Nova Scotian Alexander Keith’s brewery is best known for their India Pale Ale, but their beer is now known for making whisky! The press release from the…
The Canada Day long weekend celebration is this weekend. Picnics and bbq and generally getting together with friends and family will happen. Enjoying this scene with Canadian wine would make it even better in my opinion. Below is a list of Canadian wines I tasted over the past year that I think would be fun to have this long weekend. …
Most of the excitement about the Vancouver International Wine Festival is with the theme country or region; California for this year. But, we should not shy from visiting the rest of the Tasting Room and try wines from other parts of the world, as well as Canada. Below are a dozen wines that I enjoyed and recommend for you to…
The Vancouver International Wine Festival 2019 starts February 23. A big part of the festival is attending the International Festival Tasting Room that has 160 wineries attending, pouring a total of 1450 wines. How do you know which wineries you want to make sure you try? California is the theme region, so there will be more wineries from there, compared…
Have You Heard of Whispering Horse Winery? One of our newest wineries to BC, Whispering Horse Winery is located a little southwest of Chilliwack on Vedder Mountain Rd. Cultus Lake is around the corner from the winery as well. The story behind the name of the winery is, of course, related to horses. In the words of the winery, “Our…
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 free flow of our wine between our borders. Sometimes it is easier to get wines from other parts of the…
At the i4C+ Celebration on July 21-23, 2017 there will be 59 cool climate chardonnay producers; 25 wineries from Ontario and 34 from around the world. There will be 2 wineries from BC too. And as I mentioned in my previous article on the i4C+ Celebration, while the focus is Chardonnay there will also be Pinot Noir, Gamay, Cab Franc,…
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…
