wine
From January 20 to February 5, our city celebrates the tenth year of the Dine Out Vancouver event. In-the-know foodies have already spent a fair amount of time on the Tourism Vancouver website sifting through menus and booking the best dining rooms in town the minute the reservation system opened … Read More
Need a wine match for your next appetizer of grilled grasshopper? Apparently the nutty flavour of the crunchy critters is best accompanied by a Chardonnay — specifically, an Australian chard, from a curious line called Ladies Who Shoot Their Lunch. Sounds a bit Crocodile Dundee, as does word that the … Read More
Another year of wine tastings, seminars and late-night debauchery has passed as this 2011 Whistler Cornucopia (Nov. 10 – 14) has come to an end. Thousands of the annual festival’s attendees sipped, slurped and gulped down hundreds of wines and dozens of cocktails, and sampled their way around Whistler’s top … Read More
A decade ago, Prince Edward County was well off the radar of Toronto foodies. A two-hour drive east of the GTA, the county was better known for the family-friendly Sandbanks Provincial Park than as a locale for wine and culinary delights. No more, as the rapid establishment of a now … Read More
If you’re keen to catch some of the fall grape harvest in progress, you needn’t trip up to the Okanagan for wine country tours. Right in Vancouver’s own backyard, just a short trip up Highway 1, sits the Fraser Valley, where more than just a handful of wineries are offering … Read More
