A couple weeks back, The Atlantic pulled away from the noise of the Olympics to shine a little light on BC’s wine industry.
Read the whole thing here…

The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games has brought a lot of worldwide media attention to Vancouver, and via my job running Salt Tasting Room, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have been involved with some fantastic press opportunities over the last few days, from the Sunday New York Times, to Condé Nast Traveler, the Sydney Morning Herald [...]

Jason Priestley, who is no doubt eying a glass of Blackhills Nota Bene.
A short Globe and Mail article from this past Sunday discusses the political motivation behind some of the wines you’ll be served at Olympic functions. No offense Wayne, but I tried your Chardonnay last night, and that shouldn’t be served to anyone. May [...]

The Province’s Wine Guy, our good pal, bestselling author and future Salt Tasting Room cameo server, James Nevison, does all of us a favour by putting an awesome Manzanilla Sherry up on a deserved pedestal in today’s newspaper…
This, coupled with the BCLDB’s recent releasing of the floodgates, making way more Lustau Sherries readily available in [...]

A few completely unrelated paragraphs…

One great thing that happened yesterday was the reopening of San Francisco’s natural wine shop and bar, Terroir. What relief! Here’s a little glimpse at last night’s gorgeous by-the-glass offerings. The 06 Puffeney Trousseau was every bit as heavenly as last time I tasted it and the Guy Breton Vieille Vignes [...]

We’re featured on The Gastown Blog today with a little post featuring our favourite Similkameen Valley producer, Orofino. Check it out right here.

You should be apart of the Wine Century Club. It’s more challenging than I first assumed it would be, but I think if I racked my brain, I would be close. If you haven’t, maybe you should add that to your 2010 wine resolutions; It’s totally worth the free certificate. Application here. Maybe there needs [...]

I had posted the news last week of Crushpad’s recent adoption of the French-made, vial-shaped, taster bottles which they’ve branded as “TinyBottles.” This week, another California company called TastingRoom, has launched their take on the 50ml sample sized vessels, which look more like shrunken wine bottles. They’ve developed new bottling equipment for this application which [...]

Cibo/Uva (EnRoute’s Best New Restaurant ‘09) Sommelier and General Manager, Sebastien Le Goff visits Virgin Radio for 10 minutes this morning to offer a few wine selections for the holidays. The intensity of the hosts reminds me why I don’t typically listen to morning radio shows, but Sebastien does an awesome job. Future in radio [...]

(From this article in Wines & Vines)
San Francisco’s custom consumer blending house Crushpad (a real alternative to wine kits?), has begun using TinyBottles as a way to offer samples from boutique producers in an attractive package. These are small format bottlings in 50 or 100ml sizes offered at about 10% the cost of a full [...]