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Week in Review
Tuesday, February 24 2026
02 · 24Looking Forward
The 47th Vancouver International Wine Festival is returning to Vancouver to celebrate the end of the long winter months. The festival consistently revitalizes the local wine scene, which has been steadily cultivating a wine culture in B.C. since the late 1970s. This year, France is the theme, and the reliability of French wine offers comfort to attendees at a time when wine has temporarily lost some of its shine in the marketplace. There is no reason to panic, far from it. Instead, we should maintain our faith and keep doing what we do every day—seeking that special wine made by that special person who lives on the land, farms the land, and creates wines that enrich our lives and inspire us to find more memorable moments.
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Inside the 47th Vancouver International Festival Tasting RoomThe French are in the spotlight at the 47th Vancouver International Wine Festival, taking place from March 7-14 at Canada Place. Despite...
Gérard BertrandIf a trip to the south of France is in your future, we think you will be interested in our on-site video interview with famed French...
When Only B.C. Bubbles Will DoIn a world where Champagne has long dominated the sparkling wine pyramid, the tide is turning as more and more producers around the...
BC Food and Wine RadioBC Food and Wine Radio launched on September 6, 1997, as The Best of Food and Wine with Tony and Kasey Wilson in the CFUN studios on West...
Mission Hill 2025 National Wine Awards of Canada Winery of the YearThe Okanagan hilltop winery with the stunning vistas has returned to the top of the heap once again at the 2025 WineAlign National...
2025 WineAlign National Wine AwardsAfter posting 20 consecutive years of growth, the sparkling wine category took a step back in 2023 and 2024 in the US and Canada. However,...
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From the TreveHouseby: Treve Ring
Rioja - Rediscovering Terroir, Celebrating Tradition
The most classic and historic of Spanish wine regions, the appellation of Rioja celebrated their centenary anniversary in 2025. It was back in 1925 when Rioja was the first region in Spain to receive Denomination of Origin (DO) status, and it was the first to become a Qualified Denomination of Origin (DOCa) in 1991. Of course winemaking roots reach back far further than that, with the Phoenicians introducing winemaking knowledge back in the 11th century BCE, and Romans planting vineyards and making wine on those lands in the 2nd century BCE...Read More ...
by: Brent Gushowaty
Refracting the ABCs of the Modern Chardonnay Prism
The chardonnay grape is extremely versatile, and its wines range widely in flavour from the lean, unoaked, flinty, steely, high-note versions of French Chablis and Champagne to the broad, buttery, heavily oaked versions of many California versions. Like a prism, one element (wine/light) goes into the prism/winery, and a great range of results can come out the other side. It is why ABC wine drinkers (Anything But Chardonnay), traumatized many years ago by a kind of zombie march of mediocre, creamy, oak-bomb chardonnays in the North American market, would do well to look at how wide the chardonnay wingspan really is...Read More ...
by: Geoffrey Moss MW
B.C. Buyer's Guide: Vintage 2025
It's difficult to talk about the 2025 vintage without the context of the years before it. The extreme cold events of December 2022 and January 2024 decimated yields across the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys, resulting in a reported 97% crop loss. The so called replacement wines, branded under the Crafted in BC label, were a necessary short-term solution to bridge the deficit. The good news was that the worst-case scenario was avoided...Read More ...
