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Reading Time: 3 minutes New Wines, Live Music & the Return of the 7 Deadly Sins Party [Okanagan Falls, BC] April 24, 2025 – The team at Blasted Church Vineyards is thrilled to welcome visitors back for another unforgettable season in Okanagan Falls. With sweeping lake views, sun-soaked patios, and award-winning wines, there’s no better…

By Rick VanSickle Self-diagnosed as “experimental, a little edgy and a lot esoteric,” Prince Edward County’s Trail Estate Winery has never strayed from the path less followed. Also in this Ontario Wine Report: Two new wines from Niagara’s Liebling’s sophomore release, plus picks from the Vintages release Saturday including two wines from Bachelder, and sparkling…

Often overlooked in favour of its famous sibling, crémant delivers regional flair, exceptional value, and refined bubbles from across France’s top wine regions What’s in a name? Champagne is synonymous with sparkling wine, but if you stop there you miss Champagne’s forgotten sibling – crémant. While only sparkling wines made in Champagne can call themselves…

If you see Botrytis in your grapes, it is always a good idea to test for fungicide resistance in your pathogen population. While the funds last, you can receive free testing. The results can provide you with information on which fungicide classes are working and which are not. This will allow you to switch fungicides…

You might be interested in the results of our sulfur trials on V. vinifera grapes over the last few years. With the advent of powdery mildew resistance to both the QoI (FRAC 11) and DMI (FRAC 3) fungicides in many northern Georgia vineyards, we have tried to learn more about how we can utilize sulfur…

This Earth Day, VineRoutes proudly highlights its continuing commitment to promoting environmentally conscious winegrowing through its Sustainable Producers editorial series At the heart of this initiative is a dedication to telling meaningful stories—stories that spotlight the winemakers and vineyards working tirelessly to protect the planet through sustainable, organic, biodynamic, and regenerative practices. Our Sustainable Producers…

Grandson Declan waiting for food at L’Avenue Sunday, April 13th: Deborah and I Drove to Toronto to meet with Annabel and Declan, who had flown in from Vancouver for tonight’s Seder dinner. We queued up for 45 minutes to get into L’Avenue at The Well, an amazing complex. We then waited an hour for the…

Who (or what) is this eddy you keep talking about? Efficient water management has never been more critical for agriculture and specifically for viticulture. High-end viticulture needs to manage water to not only cut costs, but to keep quality high in a market of oversupply and buyers who hold the upper hand over the grower.…

Photo: Brenda Hetman Craig and Layne Craig (photo courtesy 40 Knots) Comox-based 40 Knots Winery has added four outstanding sparkling apple ciders to its already extensive wine portfolio. If you have not yet encountered the ciders, don’t wait too long. These are immensely appealing but the production volumes are limited. If you share my taste,…

By Jamie Slingerland Vintages are shaped by the weather and in 2024 a strong El Nino shaped the vintage. 2024 went down as the warmest year in recorded history in Niagara as well as Canada and the world but in Niagara we did not experience a lot of +30 C temperatures, which El Ninos have…