So, I’m going to MC the Undercover event for The Shooting Stars Foundation on October 29th!
A liitle background:
The Foundation:
The Shooting Stars Foundation produces unique special events with passion, integrity and innovation to raise money for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Their grants support community based organizations providing supplemental health care, food and shelter to persons living with [...]

Tomorrow, October 2nd at the Sutton Place Hotel, check out the Wines Of Argentina tasting from 7:00-9:30!  For industry folk, there’s also a trade version from 2:30-5:00.
Argentina is the 5th largest wine producing country in the world, renowned for brambly Malbecs and juicy Torrontés.  Here’s a good refresher on the country’s wines.  I’m focused on looking [...]

Coming soon, September 24th in fact, is the Sonoma In The City event which will have the full range of styles from Dry Creek to Russian River.  The event is mainly at the brand spankin’ new (and incredible) Vancouver Convention Centre West, and promises to be pretty damn delicious.
There’s a Media & Trade Seminar, a Trade [...]

  
At Salt, we’ve been pouring (and loving) Michael Bartier’s phenomenal (44-Year) Old Vines Chenin Blanc and it’s become the hit of our summer!  Zippy and fresh with lime zest and a bit of a sparkle, it’s lovely on its own or as a great match for an array of cheeses and charcuterie.
We are about to [...]

Well, The Sherry Council of America has commissioned Seattle’s Creature Agency to develop a marketing campaign to draw the young ‘uns (”Generation Y“, “Millennials“, “The Obama Generation“, etc.) into the wonderful world of Sherry. 
It’s generally cringe-inducing when those of a previous generation try to speak to the next (”Let’s call it Olorizzle, Finizzle and Manzanizzle [...]

VinoCamp is on the way!  I’ve just agreed to do a Sherry & Artisan Cheese talk, so come enjoy a sunny day out at UBC and let me shower you with Fino!
From the VinoCamp site…
This is definitely not the wine festival. In a more unstructured form than a standard conference, VinoCamp Vancouver, and introducing the [...]

This is my good friend Rhys Pender. 
He’s an Australian of Canberran descent who has been living in BC for the better part of two decades.  We became tight in the mid-nineties when we were both pretty much just kids entering the local wine world.  We also both went through similar Hell in the mid-nineties, as [...]

After Sideways, and that infamous scene outside the restaurant, Merlot (particularly California Merlot) took a multi-million dollar hit.
The folks behind Merlove aim to change all that, plus give the elite side of wine a good slap in the face as well…

The first varietal themed wine party in an apparent series, “Show Me Your Pinot,” went off with out a hitch this past weekend. I joined a group of friends where everyone’s mission was to bring a brown-bagged bottle of Pinot Noir, no stipulations other than that. We tasted through them all completely blind, took a [...]

This Thursday June 18th at Everything Wine, there’s a very special (free!) ’sipping & signing’ event with the Barossa’s own John Glaetzer.  Drop by for a spash of wine and have the guy sign your bottle of his Gipsie Jack or John’s Blend (or both!).  It runs from 4:00 - 7:00, I’d get there early.
Don’t [...]

One of the bigger local tastings of the year occured a couple months back, in conjunction with the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival when a host of wine-types gathered at The Vancouver Club for a grand tasting of a 10 year vertical (’97-’07) of Mission Hill’s Bordeaux-inspired Oculus.
From BC’s grandest, flagship winery - the Oculus [...]