I was impressed on my first trip to Seasons in the Park (@SeasonsInQEPark) and it was easy to imagine Clinton and Yelstin using it for private meetings in 1993. The view was impressive but we were there to enjoy some Blue Mountain wines. (@BlueMtnWinery)
My quick notes were that the Brut was crisp, the Pinot Blanc [...]
I have read some articles about how differently people perceive wine when the test is blind. And so I was excited to be invited to Taste, a Blind BC Wine Tasting event on December 4th, celebrating BC wine and cuisine. The wine tasting features 2 wines in each of 5 categories of taste: crisp, aromatic, [...]
press release
This Monday, September 7th, from 5:00 onwards!
bin end: last bottle of batch of wine: one of the last bottles remaining from a single production of wine, often sold at a reduced price.
This Monday, September 7th, and every Holiday Monday until you stop coming, Salt Tasting Room will offer our “Bin Ends” at a [...]
Open since June 2006, Salt is another classic gastown effort by Sean Heather, owner of the Irish trifecta: the Heather, Salty Tongue and Shebeen. Tucked away in Blood Alley, the Salt Tasting Room feels edgier than you would expect from Vancouver, with a sparse dining room of exposed brick and concrete, featuring a long shared [...]
[ May 26, 2009; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] SOWA Press Release:
Vancouver, BC… We all know that the best parties end up in the kitchen, so why not start there? That is what the South Okanagan Winery Association (SOWA) has done with their Second Annual Kitchen Party – coming to Vancouver’s Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (1505 West 2nd [...]
[ September 24, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Wines of Chile Tasting
September 24th, 2009
Rocky Mountaineer Station
7:00-10:00pm
$65
[ May 28, 2009; 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] New Zealand Wine Fair, with over 30 wineries, and 150 wines
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre West
May 28th, 2009, 7:00pm-9:30pm
Evening tickets:
nzwine-events.ca
[ August 6, 2008; 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] If you don’t know it, not only is The Show a really fracking hot labelled bottle of wine, it tastes great too. That’s partly due to the fact that ninja winemaker Charles Bieler is behind it. Lucky for us, he’s coming to visit and tell us about this wines.
To take place at the 39th and [...]