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After a couple of years, we have a new edition of the Southeast Regional Bunch Grape Integrated Management Guide! You can find the updated guide at: https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/AP131-2/2026-southeast-regional-bunch-grape-integrated-management-guide/. This is a new annual guide for managing diseases, insects, weeds, and wildlife in bunch grapes in the Southeast. Additionally, cultural practices were added to this edition of…

Science continues to reveal just how sophisticated the relationship is between plant roots and the soil microbiome. We’ve written before about plants acting as miniature solar panels, using photosynthesis to produce sugars that are released into the soil as root exudates. These exudates feed soil microbes, creating a symbiotic partnership between plants and the organisms…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The devastating January 2024 cold event dramatically reduced British Columbia’s grape crop, leaving many wineries without enough fruit to produce some of their most cherished wines. Pinot Noir was among the hardest-hit varieties, making exceptional examples from the vintage especially rare. One of those rare success stories is Bottega’s 2024 Pinot…

Photo: Blue Mountain winemaker Matt Mavety The trio of 2025 whites released earlier this month by Blue Mountain Vineyard & Cellars show once again what a fine vintage 2025 is proving to be. The previous two vintages suffered seriously from winter damage. The Okanagan Valley’s vineyards produced just five per cent of their normal quantity…

Wine Production in Fuissé: A History The village of Fuissé sits near the southern end of Burgundy’s limestone belt, where the vineyard land of the Côte d’Or and Côte Chalonnaise gives way, a few kilometers to the south, to the granitic terrain of Beaujolais. It is a small commune in the department of Saône-et-Loire, and…

Monday. June 22nd: Dinner: chicken pasta with a bottle of Cono Sur Bicicleta Reserva. Tuesday, June 23rd: Dinner: Lamb chops with a bottle of Creekside Laura’s Blend 2022. Wednesday, June 24th: No wine. Thursday, June 25th: Winemaker Emma Garner invited me over to Thirty Bench to taste her Rieslings. Winemaker Emma Garner Thirty Bench Rieslings…

In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am going to include a new one that will appear from time to time.  I’m calling it, ‘From the Cellar’. It will be similar to the wine reviews, except that it will feature wines…

OENODIA validates a high-precision partial dealcoholization pilot at the Centre du Rosé: a major breakthrough for precision winemaking!  Faced with the challenges of climate change and shifting consumer habits, winemakers need reliable solutions now more than ever to precisely adjust the alcohol content of their wines. To meet this need, OENODIA, the benchmark brand for…

Kim Uncorked: Welcome to my weekly wine recommendation. Hi, I’m Kim, a passionate lover of wine, food, and any experience that brings the two together! In this weekly blog post, I share my thoughts on a wine that I’ve recently purchased from one of our local independent wine merchants. If you’d like to know more…

  Blasted Church Promotes Jamie MacNeill to Assistant Winemaker and Marks the Return of BC Fruit with 2025 Spring Releases Some good BC wine news to share: Blasted Church Vineyards has promoted Jamie MacNeill from Cellarmaster to Assistant Winemaker as the winery launches its 2025 Vintage and celebrates a return to BC-grown fruit. MacNeill joined…