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Brands traded hands recently as Bonny Doon’s Big House and Cardinal Zin wines were bought by The Wine Group, our world’s third largest wine producer by volume. The brands join, amongst others, the Franzia and Corbett Canyon labels; we hope they remember to open and close the right valves on the bottling line. The purchase […]

By way of our gonzo wine journo friend Nick, up to his old tricks… A classic wine event in Edmonton (as per usual, held for a great cause):

Now, if you happen to live in B.C., and if you happen to enjoy Riesling, you’d be hard pressed to find a better deal out there than Cono Sur’s 2003 “Vision” Riesling. Riesling from Chile? Heck yeah when it hails from the Bio Bio Valley in the country’s south. Quirky and tasty, what more could […]

Sumac Ridge of B.C.’s Okanagan Valley is celebrating their 25th. The party included music, and sabring by founder Harry McWaters.

Also good for sabring.

The SH Star reports the affectionate words of Jancis Robinson towards her compatriots Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator. But more interestingly, she takes a stand against the abuse of adjectives in wine reviews. I don’t know, I swear I got some road tar in my Shiraz the other day.

So, any of you Millenials out there (typically defined as those born on or after 1982), here’s the question. Do any of these wines sound appealing to you?

Pinot Evil
Killer Juice
Herding Cats
Tempra Tantrum
Angel Juice

Underdog Wine Merchants, a recently announced division of The Wine Group specifically targetting wines to millenials, believes they will… So, would you pick […]

Here, Dan Berger has a compelling piece on what he coined “Macro Terroir,” the idea that wines taste similar when they come from the same general geographical area.
So wine from hot southern Cali tastes different from that of cooler Sonoma. So wines from Mendocino all have high alcohol numbers and low pH.
I call it […]

The three places we’ve recently had exciting white wines from:
Margaret River, Australia
Rias Baixas, Spain
Cotes du Jura, France

It’s a new blog era, time for a new blog style. It’s a long time coming, but we’ve finally made the transition to an “off-the-shelf” blogging package. Life should prove simpler, we’ll let the collective hands of open source show us the way, we’ll RSS and vlog and do whatever else gets done in the […]