By Rick VanSickle A common axiom wine growers in Niagara believe in is that there is no predicting a vintage until you get at least to the Labour Day weekend. Well, after a wet and …

Carter Wine Company The Hawk 2016 and Lemberger Merlot 2017 labels It’s September, so let’s start looking for red wines to enjoy as the nights get longer and the weather gets cooler.  I have two …

The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for September 4, 2023 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my …

The Medoc in Bordeaux and 8 appellation bottles flight of wine The history of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon is deeply intertwined with the evolution of the wine world. Cabernet Franc, the older of the …

Best new Cognacs and Armagnacs Any discussion of the relative merits of Cognac and Armagnac can all too easily descend into trite generalisations. Cognac is invariably described as ‘refined’ and ‘elegant’, Armagnac as ‘rustic’ and …

Pascal Madevon, a Bordeaux-trained winemaker who now calls BC home, brings his skills to make a magnificent red blend wine for the Okanagan’s French Door Estate Winery. The winery was founded in 2019 and is …

The post A Rock Star at a Wine Conference? Awwwww YEAH! (More On Wine Future 2023) appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. You will never be this cool I am getting increasingly STOKED about the …

By Rick VanSickle “Do you have the new Blake Boulevard wines,” I ask the clerk at the Wine Rack store. “Yes, it’s right here and it’s flying off the shelf. It’s a staff favourite.” The …

Château d’Aussières. In 1999, an unlikely love story was kindled. Baron Eric de Rothschild of Lafite-Rothschild felt a coup de coeur – a sudden passion – for a property in Languedoc’s Corbières: Château d’Aussières (170 …

As the summer season comes to a close and many wineries prepare for harvest, more than 400 active wildfires continue to burn in British Columbia, a handful of which the BC Wildfire Service designates ‘a …

Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said the funds are ‘aimed at stopping prices collapsing and so that winemakers can find sources of revenue again’. However, he warned that the industry needs to ‘look to the future, …