It's prime time to think pink and drink pink season. Just as pink is the halfway hue between white and red on the colour spectrum, drinking pink offers up the best of both in the wine world. You get the freshness and acidity of white wines, plus the structure,
After posting 20 consecutive years of growth, the sparkling wine category took a step back in 2023 and 2024 in the US and Canada. However, at least north of the border, it can hardly be considered bad news, given that sales were up more than 25 per cent
It's almost British Columbia Day, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about some of our favourite local cheeses and cheese makers. Our cheese industry isn't as old as in some other areas of Canada, but there are still some terrific cheesemakers
Few categories at the National Wine Awards are as diverse as white blends. We see everything from the proverbial kitchen sink blend, when the list of grape varieties reads like a short novel, to faithful renditions of classic blends that have stood the
Pinot noir is notorious for being a finicky, demanding grape – thin-skinned, sensitive to climate and diseases, and easily thrown off by the slightest misstep in the vineyard or winery. Yet when handled with care, it becomes quietly stunning. Delicate
For the company that helped fuel the stunning rise in popularity of Prosecco worldwide with its iconic, unmistakable and openly opulent bright gold bottle, the entrance to Bottega S.p.A Distillery and Winery is surprisingly restrained. Our driver, who
This year, the National Wine Awards of Canada celebrates a quarter-century of our once-a-year snapshot of Canadian wines. As the co-founder, along with Toronto wine critic David Lawrason, we have been privileged to have shone a light on the developing
As you can imagine, it is somewhat of an occupational hazard for me to visit cheese stores or order cheese plates when I'm travelling. If I am somewhere that makes a lot of cheese, I will always try to visit a cheese maker. That's not for work; that's
I went to Piemonte to better understand its iconic red wines, but left even more intrigued by its whites. I wanted to get a firmer grasp of the crus of Barolo and Barbaresco, the zenith for Nebbiolo. We toured around both areas, hopping in and out of
A lot has changed since Top Drop’s inaugural vintage, back in fall 2014, but the mandate set forward by founders Kurtis Kolt and Jeff Curry remains the same. “Our focus is terroir-influenced, handcrafted wines, and the people behind them.
There is much concern nowadays about what sells wine, especially to young consumers. What happens if we reverse the lens and ask not what sells wine but what wine sells? What changes if our first question is not how to sell BC wine, but what does BC wine
Description: Le Maréchal was created in the 1990s by the Famille Rapin in Grange-près-Marnand in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The family had traditionally produced Le Gruyere but decided to change in 1994 and converted their dairy from
This month, the GOW tasting team offers an early look at some of the replacement, or Crafted in British Columbia wines, made in response to the 2024 deep freeze that swept through most interior wine regions. The freeze left many vineyards struggling to
The 2025 Vancouver International Wine Festival was a signal opportunity to sample a gallery of pinot noirs from the New World part of the pinot noir spectrum. A good portion of the pinot noir's flavour spectrum and its responsiveness to terroir
There are numerous shades of green in the wine world nowadays, and consumers don’t have to sacrifice quality to taste them. Green generally isn’t usually something you look for in a wine. For wine geeks, ‘green’ can note underripe
Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar is a unique cheddar made in rural Prince Edward Island. The cow’s milk gathered from Holsteins is heated but not pasteurized, allowing it to develop the most flavourful cheddar possible. Milk Type: Raw Cow’s
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