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Wine in the Chinese Year of the Snake

February 10th 2013 marks the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Snake. This got me thinking. Since I have decided to boycott Valentine’s Day this year and all of its potential angst (sorry boys), why not focus instead on another big annual February event?

Here is a little bit of [...]

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 [...]

Now Play Nicely Together

the glasses are all empty except this one

Oh snobby, snobby me. I chose the theme of ‘Pairing Wine and Cheese’ for my latest newsletter believing it would be an easy task to apply what I know about food and wine pairing to the art of pairing wine with cheese. How hard could it [...]

Ratings Smack Down Wine Tasting

All the open bottles are kept hidden

One of our team members suggested a great concept for a Thursday Night Swirl wine tasting that was perfect during the Winter Olympics weeks: several of our staff would choose a wine they liked to present to the Swirl participants, the participants would then evaluate and rate [...]

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 [...]