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2022 Chardonnay (McLean Creek) Meyer Family Vineyards Okanagan Falls, BC $32.26 Lemon yellow with medium-minus intensity.  A pronounced chardonnay nose.  There is no mistaking what this wine is.  Intertwined aromas of citrus, toasty oak, honey, melon, spice, and a touch of almond.  Well balanced.  Big on the palate with aromas carrying over seamlessly on to…

Penfolds Winemaker’s Dinner 2026 This exclusive dinner marries East and West in the most sophisticated way Celebrate the Year of the Horse in style with an exclusive culinary experience hosted by Penfolds at Vancouver’s iconic Black Blue Steakhouse. Join us for an intimate evening featuring a curated multi-course menu paired with exceptional Penfolds wines, including…

Mission Hill Family Estate Welcomes Year of the Fire Horse For the fifth consecutive year, Mission Hill marks Lunar New Year with a thoughtfully curated offering that honours tradition while looking boldly toward what’s next. Leading up to February 17, we welcome the Year of the Fire Horse. One of the most powerful and dynamic…

Provence Marinaside’s First Cellar Series Dinner of 2026 Spotlights Tawse Winery For its first Cellar Series dinner of the year, join Provence Marinaside on Sunday February 8, as it shines the spotlight on exquisite wines from award-winning Tawse Winery which is located on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment. The six-course dinner, featuring many wines not normally available…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Okanagan Wineries Worth Visiting for Architecture Alone For years, wine travel writing has followed a familiar script: where to stay, where to taste, where to eat. Useful, yes—but increasingly incomplete. As the wine industry undergoes a structural shift toward direct-to-consumer sales, wineries are no longer competing only on what’s in the…

Tawse winemaker Jessica Otting pouring Spark 2022 Monday, January 12th: Deborah’s birthday. I prepared dinner. A glass of Perelada Cava while I was cooking sautéed Argentinian prawns in a cream sauce, on a bed of rice, with braised bok choy. The wine, Stoneleigh Sauvignon Blanc 2024 from Marlborough. Dessert: Blueberry crumble with ice cream (and…

Tonight’s wine review is this lovely Sauternes from Bordeaux that arrived at the LCBO in last month’s December 6 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection – with plenty of bottles still available for purchase across Ontario. It is produced by the prestigious and historic Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, a 1er Grand Cru Classé estate in the 1855 classification…

By Rick VanSickle In 2022, the Al Borgo project was barely a concept of a concept with newly planted experimental vines and grandiose plans for a destination winery in an unlikely location in Niagara. Today, with the doors finally open at the region’s newest estate winery and the first wines on the shelves, it’s not…

Sub-zero harvests, frozen fruit, and real-world learning define how Niagara College teaches the art of Icewine Flurries and sub-zero temperatures created ideal conditions on the morning of January 16, when Niagara College students headed into the vineyard for the Teaching Winery’s annual Icewine harvest. At first light, students hand-picked frozen vidal grapes in deep snow,…

Fort Berens has just released three new wines alongside three offerings in their Reserve series. While many people are familiar with Fort Berens wines, I’m often surprised by how few have actually visited the winery. Lillooet is steeped in history. As one of the earliest towns in the province, it played an important role as…