Author - Nick Jeffrey

The French call it Mardi Gras, made most famous by the bacchanal in New Orleans each February. The English call it Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, depending on...

Your humble narrator was wracking his brain earlier this month, trying to come up with a sufficiently romantic scheme to impress my lady friend on...

When boozers think of Italy, wine is generally the first thing to come to mind.  Indeed, the Italian love for wine goes all the way back to the Roman empire...

In the carefree days of my callow youth, your intrepid liquor reporter was perfectly content to munch on chicken wings while chugging a Molson Dry straight...

Your globetrotting liquor reporter vacationed in Gay Paree this year, and made sure to imbibe all the local tipples. Speaking of tipples, the topless revue at...

The wines of Argentina seem to occupy more shelf space every time I visit my friendly neighbourhood booze merchant, and for good reason indeed. Argentina is...

Your intrepid liquor reporter was out wooing a young lady on one of those newfangled Internet dates, and was faced with that dreaded date-night challenge of...

Your globetrotting liquor reporter was recently on his annual tour of the Okanagan Valley, that heavenly little spot of Canadian wine country that is close...

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...