Spotlight on Bella’s Bubbles
The story behind British Columbia’s Bella Wines starts out innocently enough. Jay Drysdale was working in restaurant kitchens, and in hopes of further understanding the complex relationship between food and...
Wine 101: Wine Myths Debunked!
I’ve been around British Columbia wine country over the last couple of days, and I’ve found myself taking note of the many myths about wine that one overhears around tasting...
The Friday Files: Major Canadian Wine Events & Articles – Kurtis Kolt
The Niagara Wine Festival, the longest-running event of its type in Canada, starts this weekend! In The Vancouver Sun, Anthony Gismondi pays homage to BC Pinot Noir. Destination BC, who...
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...