Your intrepid liquor reporter was out on one of those newfangled Internet dates last week, and ended up in a snooty French restaurant with a young lady of very...
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World Whisky Winner
Today is a good day to be a Canadian boozer, and especially exciting for those of us in the prairie provinces. Yes, gentle reader, amid much pomp and fanfare...
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Zweigelicious
Faithful readers may recall your intrepid liquor reporter’s long appreciation of both beer and the fairer sex. As you can imagine, last month’s...
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Yay For Cabernet
Wine labels can be a source of confusion for the average boozer. The snooty old-world countries like France put the name of the village or wine region where...
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Irish Whiskey
Yankee Hillbillies have their Bourbon Whiskey. Kilt-wearing bagpipers have their Scotch Whisky. Even the Godzilla-fearing denizens of Tokyo have their own...
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Okanagan Spirits
The Okanagan Valley of British Columbia is known far and wide as one of Canada’s premiere wine growing regions, second in volume only to the Niagara...
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Aging Wine
Back in the days of my callow youth, when mullets and boy-bands roamed the earth with impunity, your humble narrator was a wide-eyed newcomer to the world of...
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Rioja vs Ribera
Your humble narrator generally has no trouble selecting a Spanish wine on the shelves of my local booze merchant. My usual strategy is to just keep going until...
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All Spruced Up
Your globetrotting liquor reporter spent a few days in Montreal last week, also known as the traditional home of Spruce Beer. For those not familiar with this...
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Lovable Laphroaig
The whisky fans in the audience may already be aware of a momentous occasion that ticking by on the calendar this year. Yes, gentle reader, the famed Laphroaig...