Holiday Wine Guide 2020: Pop These Sparkling Wines For New Year’s Eve
Opening a bottle of sparkling wine can seem like quite a commitment, especially in 2020. This year, most celebrations are relegated to less than a handful of people. If you pop a cork, you’ve pretty much pledged to finish that…
Holiday Wine Guide 2020: Tempting Wines For Your Holiday Meal
For reasons beyond our control, Canadians are being forced to throw their holiday entertaining schedule out the window. An evening with girlfriends, a neighbourhood open house, an office Christmas party – it’s all cancelled! Some may sigh in relief while…
Holiday Wine Guide 2020: The Best Wines to Gift
Wine is paradoxically one of the easiest and most difficult things to give as a gift. It can be a thoughtless, grab-and-go, hand-it-over absentmindedly in a wine bag kind of present. Or it can be an impactful buying decision, with…
How To Become a Champagne Expert
If you went into a wine shop today, could you confidently pick out a bottle of Champagne to buy? I ask whether it’s with confidence because for the amount of money a single bottle costs, shouldn’t you know what grapes…
Holiday Wine Guide 2020: 4 Special Wines Under $25
It’s hard to buy anything of a certain quality these days for less than $25, let alone a wine that makes its way from another part of the world. Depending on where you live, a bottle travels through several hands…
Holiday Wine Guide 2020: How To Set Yourself Up For Success
Are you someone that preps for the holiday season weeks in advance? Or do you a fly by the seat of your pants and hope to have an ounce of sanity left by December 24th? I’m somewhere in between the…
It’s Quesava Time! Wines To Pair With Naturally Gluten-Free Poppers
I’m no stranger to food restrictions. I’ve been gluten-free for a decade and mostly planted-based for nearly two years. Those food paths have inadvertently made me a more curious and adventurous foodie. While I love a good session in the…
The Newest Rewards Club for Wine Lovers
To say that our world flipped upside down these past few months is a pretty big understatement. The wine industry felt its pains. But in some regards, it was able to pivot quickly and focus on accessible options for wine…
What Vinã Echeverria Can Teach Us About Cool Climate Winemaking
Here’s the truth, I have a terrible memory when it comes to academia. I really have to work hard at remembering facts and figures. I’m very much a visual learner which is why maps are my friends. So when I…
The King of Barossa – Thorn-Clarke Shiraz!
It seems a lot of the major wine regions begin with the letter B: Bordeaux, Bourgogne, Brunello and Barolo. I’ve got another one to add to the list: Barossa. Today, we’re talking about Thorn-Clarke Shiraz from Barossa. Is that in France?…
