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 [...]

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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 [...]

(Link to CBC news clip here)
A group of researchers from the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research is urging the provincial government to raise the price on alcoholic beverages and make them less available. New research show per capita alcohol consumption in BC rising at nearly double the speed of the rest of Canada [...]

Did I miss something? Malbec is the “hottest red wine on the planet” again? And its cool to drink Grüner Veltliner again? Because New York sommeliers are saying otherwise, remember?
Then THIS article came out today stating that organic wines are becoming popular because:
“Wine critic Robert Parker, who used to snub organic wines, graded the Ardales [...]

(image sourced from PackagingNews.co.uk)
Tim Atkins, wine writer for the Observer, recently started a boycott - calling out producers who use unnecessarily heavy bottles to make their wine seem more prestigious in the article “Seeing the Light”. Common in Chile, Argentina, and Spain, but also found in nearly every wine producing region in the world, [...]