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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…

Tonight’s white wine review is a lovely, sustainable, and vegan Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough. It is brand-new to the LCBO and landed on shelves (and online) in last month’s November 8 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection. It is produced by Tiraki Wines, a family-owned winery situated at Longfield Farm in the Southern Valleys of Marlborough,…

Placing among the most celebrated international winery experiences. The post Mission Hill Family Estate Named One of the World’s 50 Best Vineyards first appeared on My VanCity.

Haywire is one of four brands made at Summerland’s Okanagan Crush Pad. The post Haywire Celebrates 15 Years first appeared on My VanCity.

Photo: Vasanti’s owners: the Sidhu family Five of the six wines from Vasanti Estate Winery, reviewed here, will not be released before next spring or summer, aside from a brief and modest releases to the winery’s wine club early in November. Get in line for them if you can. These wines, from the 2022 and…

By Rick VanSickle In a story loaded with chapters, Niagara’s Domaine Le Clos Jordanne has just revealed its next instalment. Also in this Niagara Wine Report: Stonebridge releases first big red wine from newly planted vines, our picks from the Vintages release Saturday, including the Hidden Bench Terroir Caché, Westcott Pinot Noir, Liebling Riesling, and…

Township 7 wines Monday, November 24th: Tasted the following Township 7 wines from BC: Township 7 Cabernet Merlot 2022 (Provenance Series; Okanagan Valley) Deep ruby in colour; cedary, spicy, vanilla and black fruits on the nose; medium to full-bodied, dry, savoury blackcurrant and black plum flavours; well-integrated oak and evident but ripe tannins. Great length.…