by Nicole MacKay | May 22, 2026 | Wine
Consumers increasingly look for organic and sustainable wine certifications when buying wine, but in Sicily, producers are also asking a broader question: what about the bottle itself? While consumers have become more attentive to what happens in the vineyard, far...
by Nicole MacKay | May 16, 2026 | Wine
For all wineries, environmental disruption is becoming an increasing regularity. For 1 Mill Road, a boutique producer in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, successive winter freezes and 2023 and 2024 have forced recalibration, prompting a reassessment of what “place”...
by Nicole MacKay | Apr 4, 2026 | Wine
Some days, the world feels like it is moving faster than any of us signed up for. The news is relentless, the markets are nervous, and the sense that large forces are making decisions on our behalf — without us — can settle into something that feels uncomfortably like...
by Nicole MacKay | Dec 28, 2025 | Wine
Prosecco has long been typecast as a casual, spritz-ready sparkling wine, but today’s top bottles reveal far greater reach. From approachable DOC selections to vintage-dated DOCG wines and the iconic Cartizze, the best Prosecco encompasses precision alongside festive...
by Nicole MacKay | Dec 18, 2025 | Wine
Calgary isn’t short on restaurants that make noise about what they’re doing, but OLEA isn’t one of them. There’s no overwrought concept, no choreographed plating, no self-conscious swagger. Instead, the excitement comes once the dishes actually...
by Nicole MacKay | Dec 9, 2025 | Wine
I’ll admit it: the first section I hit in any bookstore is always the cookbooks. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve promised myself “just browsing” — there’s something hypnotic about rows of spines promising flavour and ritual....
