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With pork ribs Monday, February 16th: Dinner – pork ribs with a bottle of Trillium Cellars Cabernet Franc 2019. This wine is a collaboration between George Brown College and Niagara College Teaching Winery. The label was designed by Surzayon Ghosh. Tuesday, February 17th: Dinner: pasta with Wolf Blass Shiraz 2025. Wednesday, February 18th: Dinner: Grilled…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Azhadi Vineyards feels less like a winery and more like a cultural landmark. Inspired by Tehran’s iconic Freedom Tower, the four-storey structure rises above Kelowna’s McKinley area, just a 15-minute drive from Kelowna International Airport, with both Western elegance and Eastern soul. Crowned by a 19.5-metre observation tower and a traditional…

Tonight’s white wine review is the latest vintage of an excellent Premier Cru Chablis from Burgundy that arrived at the LCBO a couple of weeks ago in the February 7th LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection. It is produced by Domaine Yvon & Laurent Vocoret, a small, family-owned winery situated in the Chablis wine region of…

Earlier this week I was fortunate to attend the first-ever Canadian seminar and trade tasting of wines from Victoria, Australia. All of these wines were new to me and I was really looking forward to the experience. Wine Victoria brought its leading wineries to Canada, offering an exclusive look at one of the world’s most…

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…

Here’s my top wine picks from the February 21, 2026 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection (digital edition here), where wines from the Southern Hemisphere are the feature story of the release. There are 86 products included in this release, with a relatively high number of recommended buys, all the while the number of sub-$20 wines…

This is a Vin de Pays wine, now known by the EU designation Indication Géographique Protégée (IGP), these are wines that either couldn’t or chose to not meet the rules of the Appellation, assuming they are in a region covered by an Appellation. You can get some good deals in this category, so with no research…

Sicily is closer to Africa than it is to Rome, a geographical fact that helps explain its wines. This sun-drenched Mediterranean island is shaped by heat, wind, altitude, and a remarkable range of soils, producing wines that can be ripe and generous yet fresh, structured, and distinctive. Climate and Soils Sicily’s Mediterranean climate delivers abundant…

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a Guest Post by Henry Martin at The Bottle Barn, Santa Rosa, Ca Low-alcohol drinks are enjoying a moment with around 10% of American adults consuming non-alcoholic beer, wine or spirits at least once per week. And 23% of 21 to 29 year olds drink them several times a week.…

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…