Tag: Zuccardi

When you attend the Vancouver International Wine Festival 2023 this month, the International Festival Tasting Room will have winery principals attending.  You have a chance to talk to them about their winery and their wines.  This is an opportunity you should not pass up.  Why did a winery make a sparkling wine or used whole-cluster fermentation for a wine, etc? …

We all can learn.  Nothing stays the same.  Things change.  This is true about ourselves, but also about wine regions.  In this case, I attended a seminar to learn about what changes have been going on the last few years in Argentinean wine making.  Barb and Ian Phillps, from Barbarian Wine Consulting, were our hosts for this seminar; both having…

This Part 2 of my review of my picks from the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival.  Part 1 covered the wines of Spain.  Part 2 is the rest of the world. Again, there are so many wines at the tasting, and so little time, I’m sure I missed many great wines.  If you tasted some that I didn’t list, please…