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Here are my top wine picks from the December 6, 2025 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection (digital edition here), which follows the massive Nov. 22nd VINTAGES Release, with a bigger selection of fine wines for your pleasure. There are 162 products offered in this release, of which 47 are among my recommended buys, and there…

Reading Time: 5 minutes From Wahluke Slope — Plus a Rare “Deconstructed GSM” Trio The 2024 vintage will go down as one of the most unusual in BC wine history. After severe winter freezes damaged vineyards across the Okanagan, wineries were granted a rare, exception to source grapes from outside the province. Many producers used…

Photo: Curt Garland The current releases from Hester Creek Estate Winery include one of its flagship Bordeaux blends, a wine called Garland named for Curt Garland, the Prince George businessman who had owned the winery since 2004. Curt Garland, who died November 21 at the age of 88, bought Hester Creek Estate Winery out of…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hester Creek’s winter red releases arrive at the perfect moment—just as holiday gatherings, long-table dinners, and fireside evenings begin to shape the season. This trio of reds highlights the incredible range of the estate’s winemaking: two powerful, cellar-worthy South Okanagan flagships and one beautifully smooth, Washington-sourced Meritage that overdelivers for its…

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“In this series we bring you our #FavouriteThings Holiday Gift Suggestions which we personally recommend” We love the wines from Moon Curser and highly recommend them for holiday gift giving and holiday entertaining. There is a wine that is right for everyone on your list.     Here are a few of our favourites: Riesling…

Happy December everyone!  I know that surveys are not everyone’s favorite holiday tradition, but the UGA IPM Program is developing a statewide IPM impact statement for 2026. As such, it is important to include impact of all IPM-related activities in all commodities and cropping systems (including grapes) to fully demonstrate the usefulness of the UGA IPM programs…

VineRoutes editors share their most powerful, personal, and meaningful wine moments of the past year Another year has come and gone, marked once again by the bottles that surprised us, moved us, challenged us, and reminded us why wine still feels like the most personal of pursuits. Whether discovered at a dinner table in a…

By Rick VanSickle The County Cider Company is for sale and the sad reality is that a game-changing chapter in the modern-day cider revolution in Ontario will end with it. County Cider owner Jenifer Dean (below) told Wines in Niagara that “I have spent 26 years working at this, the last nine years on my…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Stikky Wine – An excellent Holiday Gift. Stikky Wine is one of the most approachable, cleverly designed, and genuinely useful beginner wine guides on the market—a short but surprisingly smart book that teaches wine the way people naturally learn: through visuals, patterns, simple rules, and confidence-building “aha” moments. Rather than bury…