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I had heard about Alcoa’s Vino-Lok stopper from press releases a while back, but still, I wasn’t quite ready for my first encounter. I purchased a bottle of Grau Burgunder from the famed 6th-floor food emporium of Berlin’s KaDeWa department store, but the outside cap had me thinking it was another screwcapped bottle. It wasn’t […]

Suppose this can be heard shouted through the retail world at the moment, as Tesco looks set to enter the SoCal market in a major way. We’re dying to know if the world’s 3rd largest retailer is bringing their private label wines?

In our Province column last Thursday, we looked at the increasingly interesting world of alternative wine packages. Not too long ago mentioning “screwcap” was enough to send a wine crowd into a tizzy, but these days bag-in-the-box has begot Tetra Paks, and plastic is the new glass.
The LCBO is getting onboard trumpeting Tetra Pak’s […]

XOXO wine was launched recently in Vancouver to fine fanfare, particularly thanks to endorsement by supermodel Tricia Helfer. Helfer, as seen on TV’s Canada’s Next Top Model, smiled endlessly, posing in front of the XOXO display table.

When she’s not quaffing XOXO, she told us, she enjoys a glass of Turley (Zinfandel, we presume) or Mayacamas […]