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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Best BC Wines Of 2020: 10 Outstanding Bottles That Stand Out From The Crowd
Despite all the bad things that came at the world this year, some of us have been lucky enough to experience silver linings. Never in our lives will we get to spend this much quality time with our...
How Love Led Us To Road 13 Chenin Blanc
Road 13 Chenin Blanc is one in a million. Scratch that, it’s actually three in a million. Road 13 Chenin Blanc, made from grapes grown on vines that are more than half a century old, is vinified...
10 Of The Most Confusing Wine Terms Explained
Reading about wine or attending a wine tasting can sometimes feel like visiting a foreign country, grappling to understand a different language. I try to avoid...
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...








