The Okanagan, North to South
It’s a mere 150 kilometre stretch of land, but British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley has a breadth that covers many micro-climates along with an assortment of topographical features that has become...
Sparkling a Wine, Traditionally
So, for sparkling wine, do they just carbonate regular wine? Yeah, actually, on many occasions winemakers do actually inject carbon dioxide into a still wine to make a lighter, fizzy...
Canadian Whites, Aged
The vast majority of all wine, over 95% according to most guesswork, was created to be drunk within months of the bottle leaving the winery. With a little age in...
Laughing Past the 10-year Mark
You can expect that there’s a little extra spring in the respective steps of Cynthia and David Enns this summer. The owners of British Columbia’s Laughing Stock Vineyards, where Cynthia...
Hot Hot Heat: BC Wine Country is on Fire
This summer is a scorcher for the Okanagan, British Columbia’s largest grape growing region. A week of unrelenting heat and no rain have turned the valley into a tinderbox, and...
The Friday Files: Key Canadian Wine News Highlights by Kurtis Kolt
In The Vancouver Sun, Anthony Gismondi shares his take on the Okanagan Valley’s “coming-of-age moment.” Better than nothing, riiight? Looks like Ontario grape growers are getting a two per cent...
The Boldness of Moon Curser
All you need to do is hold a bottle of Moon Curser wine to notice that these guys do things a little differently. The branding elicits scenes from a film...
A Virtual Visit to the Vineyard
Many of us Canadians enjoy our close proximity to wine country. In the same way that we’re growing ever more conscious of where our food comes from, it’s always nice...