Canadian Restaurant And Hospitality Charities To Support This Year
This year has shaken many industries to their core. Some have managed to pivot while few have seen gains (I’m looking at you, Zoom and plexiglass manufacturers). Unfortunately, the restaurant and hospitality industries have seen some of the largest losses.…
The Best Ways To Chill Wine Quickly
We’ve all found ourselves in a pinch, needing a chilled bottle of wine for an impromptu gathering or after forgetting to put a bottle in the fridge to have with dinner. Thankfully, there are a lot of hacks on the…
Things You Need To Know About The Pinotage Grape
I’ve been posting wine tips, tasting tricks and flagship varieties to my Instagram feed recently and not too long ago I posted about Pinotage. The post resulted in a few direct messages because as it turns out, people don’t know…
How To Become A Certified Wine Lover
Being a certified wine lover sounds like one of those dream jobs. Like being professional movie watcher or donut recipe tester! Can you imagine? Even if those jobs do exist, I’m sure they’re taken. Fortunately, the wine industry has a…
Grenache vs Garnacha: Two Country’s Perspective of the Same Grape
I was watching a video the other day of a wine shop worker describing a lineup on Spanish wines. She reached for one of the reds and described the dominant grape variety as Grenache. I’m sorry, hold my glass of…
Reasons Why ‘Clean Wine’ Isn’t An Ethical Wine Term
Fads, trends or bandwagons. We jump on them, relish in their popularity and post pictures on Instagram to prove that we’re cutting edge. Trends happen in the wine industry all the time. Remember blue wine? Or canned wine? (I think…
Styles Of Sherry And How Each One Is Made
As you may know, I embarked on my Spanish Wine Scholar accreditation earlier this Spring through the Wine Scholar Guild (you might remember I tackled Albariño in an article not too long ago). SWS students get an entire year to…
How To Determine An Aromatic White Wine
Vernacular in the wine community can be puzzling. Terms like robust, tannic, luscious or flighty are flung around with ease. Yes, flighty. A word I’ve legit heard to describe a wine. Colourful adjectives describe both aromas and flavours. And sometimes,…
4 Reasons Why This Isn’t Your Typical Wine Blog
When I started this website in 2015, it didn’t originate as a blog. It was a hub for my in-home wine tasting services. I wrote articles and shared personal experiences as a bonus for visitors. I soon realized I had…
Do You Know How Much Sugar Is In Wine?
Whether we like it or not, sugar is a big part of our lives. We eat it, drink it, make homemade facial scrubs from it – sugar is everywhere! Including our wine. It’s an integral part of the winemaking process…
