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Small Acts, Full Glasses
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...
Is Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Canada’s Concierge Leader?
Fairmont Le Château Frontenac has just reached a milestone that's making headlines. With the recent awarding of Les Clefs d’Or recognition to three additional concierges, the hotel now has ten of...
10 Best Prosecco for New Year’s Eve: Top Bottles to Toast With
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...
Why Isn’t Everyone Talking About OLEA?
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 Best Cookbooks for Wine: Recipes That Beg for a Glass
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...
Okanagan Chardonnay Finds Its Voice
In a dusty corner of Naramata Bench, 1 Mill Road winemaker Ben Bryant stumbled upon a mystery that perfectly encapsulates Okanagan Chardonnay's evolution. While scrambling for replacement fruit...
Gorgona Island Wines Prove Second Chances Can Create Something Beautiful
As I sit to write this, it's been exactly one year since I stood at the highest point of the vineyard on Gorgona Island. The remote, wind-brushed outpost off Italy's Tuscan coast required a couple...
Low-Alcohol, High Flavour: The Smart Shift Toward Wine Cocktails
You don't expect a Chardonnay from Napa Valley to end up in a cocktail shaker. But that's exactly where Frank Family Vineyards' Carneros Chardonnay is headed, and surprisingly, it works. Wine...
What’s at the Top of Hermitage Hill?
Some places in the wine world feel like myth until you stand on them. Hermitage Hill, perched nobly above the Rhône River, is one of them. During a press trip for Découvertes en Vallée du Rhône in...
