Yesterday, Eric Asimov published a high profile and fairly entertaining article on Gary Vaynerchuk in the New York Times and also followed it up with a post on his blog The Pour. This morning Steve Heimoff also did a little Vaynerchuk writeup on his website as well.
Writers tend to include the phrase “you either love [...]

Friday, Wine Spectator posted an article about rising protest over “Cellared in Canada” in Ontario. My favourite part is the last paragraph where Dwight Duncan (Minister of Finance and responsible for the LBCO) says “We believe that the industry itself is best positioned to develop a long-term strategy that will address the current challenges.” Dwight, [...]

John Clerides, owner of Vancouver’s very popular Marquis Wine Cellars writes a manifesto of sorts on the tangle he (and all of us, really) is caught up in when it comes to dealing with our government-run BCLDB booze monopoly.  Click here to read what led him to say:
There is no doubt in my mind that [...]

(Image borrowed from www.jancisrobinson.com)
Jancis Robinson continues to provide priceless media attention to the number one topic plaguing Canada’s wine industry: the embarrassing “Cellared in Canada” scandal. In her visit to BC last month she witnessed first-hand how wine made from imported grapes is prominently displayed on the BCLDB shelves in the “British Columbia” section married [...]

I recently tried the much hyped “ultra-premium” BC Pinot Noir that is Foxtrot for the first time. This is a miniature production winery of just 500 cases of Pinot Noir (they just released a $50 Chardonnay as well) from grapes farmed off their 1.4 ha (3.5 ac) on the Naramata Bench.
I’ve been looking forward to [...]

As Jake got into in an earlier post, this whole “Cellared In Canada” thing is completely ridiculous.
To recap:
…the “Cellared in Canada” business, where Canadian wineries import grapes or juice from other countries and make the wine in BC (or Ontario). They don’t make a clear enough distinction for the average consumer except the fact [...]

The one, the only, Jancis Robinson has uploaded a slew of new videos to her YouTube Channel from her very popular Wine Course DVDs!
This is a great thing, and I look forward to soaking them all up - I’ve only seen bits and pieces in the past.  Hopefully this is a sign of an increased [...]

Selbach-Oster’s ‘07 Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett - a wine I would not describe as slutty.
Are wine descriptors getting out of control? We associate nuances in wine with aromas we’ve collected from our past olfactory experiences so that we can process and catalogue them. “This wine smells like plums” or “this wine smells like my grandmother’s [...]

Robert Camuto lays the smack down, clearing the air and letting you know that you’re probably just drinking bad wine…

The very successful Freakonomics has been a whirlwind bestseller over the last few years, where economic theory is applied to a wide range of subjects and events that one wouldn’t think would be relevant to economics.  Good parenting versus a decent education, socioeconomic patterns of naming children, what the KKK and real estate agents have in [...]

I’ve never been a fan of South African reds.  Too often, I find they have that burnt rubber thing on the nose and a green stemmy thing going on on the palate.  Every time a wine rep comes by with one for us to taste, I expect these characteristics, hope to be proven wrong, and [...]