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Fresh Produce: What’s in Your Glass?

In light of all the gardening insights of my previous post, this is a list of vegetable and fruit friendly bottles to consider once your summer garden begins over-producing.

 

SAUVIGNON BLANC

A go-to varietal for pairing green vegetables or salads with wine, Sauvignon Blanc has aromas and flavours of lime and gooseberry with some [...]

Oh Oregon!

the Sea Stones at Oceanside

Every summer I pack up the car and take my family on a road trip because that’s the way we roll. My kids and I have an agreement: in even-numbered years we throw one of each of their friends into the car with us and stay in an old [...]

Grills and Vines

a glass of wine for every reason

Vine is vut my Papa used to make in ze basement on ze farm. He harvested red currants and raspberries from his garden and transformed them into something decidedly unMennonite. I remember the huge fermenting vessel with its apparatus on top and how fascinated we three girls [...]

Wine and Kiwis

the nearly lost art of letter writing

My earliest experience with New Zealand dates back to my years at Fairfield Island Elementary School. I don’t know how the teachers went about doing it, but somehow they found pen pals from New Zealand for some of their more eager students. Being a budding writer even [...]

What We Did Last Night

La Stella Vivace Pinot Grigio

Once the stage has been set and after all of the key players have arrived, you can finally stop holding your breath and begin to smile. Once the first glass of wine is in your hand and you look around to see the eager happy faces of [...]

I Will Remember You

Beautiful Okanagan lakes & vineyards

The theme for June at Whatcom Wine & Spirits is the celebration of new vintage British Columbia wines and their imminent release from the wineries. These are mainly 2008 whites but some establishments are debuting their 2006 and 2007 reds at the same time. When I am preparing for [...]