Unwrapped: Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020

By |2020-01-15T20:33:19-08:00January 15th, 2020|Latest Posts, Wine|

Vancouver’s food and wine year always kicks off with a bang. Make that a small salvo. First up is Dine Out Vancouver Festival, followed quickly by the lead up to Vancouver International Wine Festival (Feb. 22nd to March 1st).  Each of these events have had a profound impact on Vancouver in their different ways. Looking [...]

Casual Wine Tasting in a Toulouse Market

By |2018-01-21T15:05:13-08:00November 12th, 2014|Travel, Wine, Wine Reviews|

Casual tasting and wines by the glass at the market wine shop Travel, they say, broadens the mind. It also sharpens your perspective at home. A recent tasting in France found me thinking, once again, despite some progress, just how outdated BC’s liquor laws really still are, outdated—and ridiculous. We were in the Victor Hugo [...]

Malbec, Who’s Your Daddy? Prunelard (at l’Institut de la Vigne)

By |2020-05-17T19:45:32-07:00September 13th, 2014|Wine|

Prunelade: Papa de Malbec. Who knew? This week I got my nose into a whole bunch of new varieties. Actually, as it turned out, most of them weren’t that new—and some were pretty old. Just east of Toulouse, in Lisle Sur Tarn, is one of  seven regional offices of l’Institut Français de la Vigne [...]

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