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VANCOUVER, BC (November 13, 2024) — Advance tickets are now on sale for the Vancouver International Wine Festival. Buy early and save up to $30 off your tasting experience. International Festival Tasting (IFT) tickets are $10 off for a limited time. Enhance your experience in the Delta Air Lines Tasting Lounge and save $15. If you can’t decide which IFT to pick, go to all four and can save $25 on the new IFT…
2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon, beginning on February 10th, 2024 (Chinese New Year) and concluding on January 28th, 2025. “In Chinese culture, the Dragon holds a significant place as an auspicious and extraordinary creature, unparalleled in talent and excellence. It symbolizes power, nobility, honour, luck, and success. Consequently, 2024 is forecast to bring about opportunities, changes, and…
This year I had many terrific wines to taste and review. Wines that I rate as 5 star I deem as needing nothing to add or subtract. They are perfect as-is. I had one wine that reached that status this year so instead of making a separate article for that wine, I am including it in this article. My 4.5-5…
I enjoy attending the Top Drop Canada wine tasting each year. It is probably my second favourite event after the Vancouver International Wine Festival. If you have not heard of Top Drop before, the organizers describe it as “Top Drop’s focus and mandate is providing a platform for terroir-influenced, handcrafted wines, and the people behind them. We believe in the…
June 10 is National Rosé Day, but what do you know about Rosé wines? Here’s some background so you can further appreciate these wines and toast a glass or two on June 10. What are Rosé Wines? Rosé wines, often referred to as rosé, are a category of wines that bridge the gap between red and white wines. They are…
I and other Trade people were invited to “explore the Pacific Wine Route with us. In the spirit of expedition and discovery, take a page from Lewis and Clark: come taste through the green, gentle slopes of Oregon’s unique beauty, and emerge through Columbia River to find the stern, mighty desert of Washington State…One, powerfully raw. The other, raw power.” …
The Vancouver International Wine Festival 2023 is almost a month away. Media were invited to a preview of some of the wines that will be available at the Festival. Here are a few wines that I quite enjoyed and you may want to try. The Theme Region this year is South America, so you will be able to try wines…
Twenty-five wines coming from BC and around the world made it to my near-perfect – star category this year. I’ve arranged these fantastic wines into BC wines followed by wines from the rest of the world. Italian wine showed up prominently with my near-perfect wine scores. Chardonnay showed prominently as well, primarily from BC. You should still be able to…
Canadian Thanksgiving is on Monday, October 10, 2022. You may be making a list of ingredients to buy for your Thanksgiving dinner. A traditional / historical dinner with turkey or ham, brussel sprouts, yam, and mashed potatoes with gravy. Or you may go other ways with roast beef, salmon, Beyond Meat, or other meat substitutes. I like to think of…
I had an educational and fun tasting experience at the 2022 Northwest Wine Expedition Masterclass: Sustainability. We had Barbara Philip MW host the event with Alex Sokol Blosser, co-owner and winemaker, from Sokol Blosser Winery from Oregon, and Cam Matches, Sr Director of Sales, from Aquilini Beverage Group (Vancouver) from Washington to give us information about each state as it…
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