On January 22nd, some lucky Vancouver-ites and visitors will get to sample the delightful flavours of BC at Liberty Wine’s second annual Taste BC event.

Taste BC, a celebration of locally-sourced wineries to restaurants, cheese to cider and seafood to beer, will be held on January 22nd, for three hours only! Have no fear however, three hours is plenty of time to get around to sample each of the merchants wares.
Tickets are $49.99 and …read more

I’m always a sucker for a gala, so when Open Road Audi invited me to preview their 2009 cars last Thursday via a wine tasting, I was in.
What I wasn’t expecting was the full-on Hollywood star treatment that I and the other 500+ guests received: 14 different courses of a tasing meal with wines to match, a 3-location, 2-storey circus performance, plus young men painted to match Audi’s new line, writhing to a great DJ atop sales desks. All this was topped off with personalised chocolate desserts being prepared by the charming Thomas Haas himself to the oohs and aahs …read more

Are you a foodie or just love your wine?  Mission Hill Winery and Wine Access magazine are hosting dinners in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto in honour of Mission Hill’s Winery of the Year award.
As part of the celebration, Mission Hill’s premium wines, will be offered for tasting along with a limited allotment of futures for sale, including the Bordeaux-inspired, iconic blend, Oculus and the Select Lot Collection range, which are highly allocated and can be found in top restaurants and wine boutiques around the world.
These memorable epicurean evenings at will be held at Canoe in Toronto …read more

Hosting a wine blog provides a lovely excuse for hosting complimentary events. The type of events that include delicious libations, laughter and conversations. Said events may or may not also include Mike & Ikes, Pop Rocks, baby carrots and a number of cameras. But that is neither here nor there.
Going into our wine tasting last Friday, we were well aware that Chile is far more well known for their reds then whites. But who wants to colour inside the lines? We take risks – which sometimes end surprisingly well and other times take us in directions we might have …read more