The Depth of Flat Rock Cellars
Flat Rock Cellars is a winery well known and respected by people in Ontario. Their labels are high profile and their tasting room—a conservatory perched on stilts with a stunning...
Hey, Teach...
Pedagogy. I’ve always been curious about this word, starting with how to pronounce it. Pedago-gee (as in gee-whiz)? Pedagogy (with a hard ‘g’ as in girl)? Dictionaries define pedagogy as...
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...
Pair It Up! One-Sentence Chicken With Gamay
The Herbed Skillet Chicken recipe comes from the Good Housekeeping series Cook Without the Book: One-Sentence Recipes—dishes that are all about convenience. I cooked it three times this summer and...
The Friday Files: Weekly Canadian Wine News & Articles
It's the middle of harvest for many Canadian vintners. So how's the weather looking? In the Okanagan, Ann Sperling predicts a balanced crop. In Nova Scotia, growers expect a small...
Making Hay When the Sun Shines
With the temperature hovering in the mid 20's over the weekend and plenty of sunshine, it was the perfect opportunity to fire up the BBQ and enjoy a meal on...
Wine 101: Finding Wine Faults
We’ve all been there. Whether you’re excited to open a wine you haven’t tried before or, well, you just need it at the end of a long day, you pull...
Wine Tunes Round Up
Thankfully, our recent Wine Tunes have eased us gently into September. Here's a quick round up of the songs we featured on our Facebook page over the past few weeks....