Author - Nick Jeffrey

Hungary might not be the first country that comes to mind when you are thinking of wine, but it is well-regarded by the wine snobs of the world. The famous...

Welcome, gentle reader, to the much-awaited first liquor column of the New Year. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year, and how the face of...

This is the time of year that your intrepid liquor reporter ends up with a lot of booze and cream in his system. Perhaps it is the cold weather that makes me...

While doing his annual rounds of all the Xmas parties he can wrangle invitations to, your intrepid liquor reporter ended up at a fancy Thai restaurant with 50...

Your intrepid liquor reporter loves this time of year.  No, gentle reader, it’s not that I’m partial to the snow, treacherous roads, and cold...

Your humble narrator was chatting up a cute wine rep at a snooty wine tasting event last week, and she poured me a glass of Beaujolais. For those not in the...

When asked, most people will say that they prefer dry wines to sweet wines, which helps explain why dry wines outsell their sweeter counterparts by a factor of...

Your intrepid liquor reporter has been waiting for several years for the Riesling Revolution to begin, when that bold Germanic grape sweeps over all those...

Your intrepid liquor reporter has a long-standing tradition of visiting the Okanagan Valley over the Thanksgiving long weekend, and this year was no exception...

Old-school wine snobs will tell you that the only proper way to bottle wine is with a cork closure, and look down their noses at these newfangled screw cap...