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by Jill Troyer Originally published in Niagara Now Wine lovers in Niagara-on-the-Lake will have a chance to taste small batch wines from several “virtual” wine brands at two pop-ups at Marynissen Estates Winery in April. The wines are all passion projects, products of collaboration among a group of people who work in the wine industry…

Tuesday, April 1st: Andrzej Lipinski invited me to Big Head to taste his 2023 wines. With Andrzej this is always something of a marathon and he proudly likes to show you everything he makes. He is an instinctive winemaker with a poet’s touch. His signature wine is Chenin Blanc. He usually makes six or seven…

Tonight’s wine reviews are a pair of lovely wines from northeastern Italy that are featured in LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collections. The Cabernet Sauvignon from Venezia made its debut at the end of March, while the Prosecco DOCG is featured in this weekend’s Release. Both wines are available for purchase today! Like the lovely 2023…

Photo: Michael Clark of Clos du Soleil The growing interest in lower-alcohol wines has led Michael Clark, the general manager and winemaker at Clos du Soleil Winery in the Similkameen, to launch two wines with nine per cent alcohol in the winery’s new Lumière Collection. These wines, the winery says, “offer a refreshing take on…

Celebrated Okanagan winery to host iconic artists Blue Rodeo, Jann Arden, Andy Grammer, and Gipsy Kings – plus introduce elevated new offerings for concertgoers Mission Hill Family Estate is thrilled to announce the return of its much-anticipated Summer Concert Series, an Okanagan Valley tradition now in its 18th season. Set against the stunning backdrop of…

By Rick VanSickle and Peter Rod It’s not only the 25th anniversary for the Grapes for Humanity charity wine auction, but also the 5th year that Ontario winemakers have stepped up to the plate for this worthy cause. Also in this Ontario Wine Report: Our picks from the Niagara wines being released at LCBO Vintages…

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…

By Rick VanSickle Once a terroir-ist, always a terroir-ist is the credo Thomas Bachelder lives by as he slices and dices his way through his chosen single-vineyard Gamays in the Niagara Peninsula. By my count, Bachelder now has 28 single vineyard wines in the marketplace over the last 12 months — that’s 11 different single-vineyard…

Tonight’s wine reviews are a pair of lovely, sustainably crafted wines from Sicily that arrived in LCBO VINTAGES last month, with the Grillo making its debut in mid-March, while the red wine arrived last weekend. Both are readily available for purchase today! The lovely wines are produced by Planeta, one of Sicily’s most respected and…

This week, the Wine Growers British Columbia Board of Directors announced the appointment of Jeff Guignard as the organization’s next CEO, effective April 28, 2025. Guignard brings over a decade of leadership experience from his 11-year tenure as Executive Director of BC’s Alliance of Beverage Licensees (ABLE BC), where he successfully championed the interests of…