Author - Nick Jeffrey

Nick Jeffrey

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Quintessential Quails’ Gate

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...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Corks or Screw Caps?

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...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Gin and Juice

The world is experiencing a Gin renaissance, and the charge is being led by the small artisanal distilleries. Gin has a long and sordid history, starting with...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Aging Wine

Some things just don’t improve as the years go by. Star Wars prequels and my waistline are two examples that immediately come to mind, but many others...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Gin and Juice

The world is experiencing a Gin renaissance, and the charge is being led by the small artisanal distilleries. Gin has a long and sordid history, starting with...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Dry Town No More?

Your humble narrator has been known to poke fun at our neighbours to the south for that failed social experiment called Prohibition back in the 1920’s. A...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

End Of An Era

Your humble narrator was sipping a frosty pint of Grasshopper last week, when a shudder went down my spine, almost like a million beer drinkers suddenly cried...

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Full of Pisco and Vinegar

Your intrepid liquor reporter has noticed the days growing shorter and the nights growing longer, a dismal portent of the coming winter that follows our too...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

International IPA Day

There was a momentus occasion in beer culture last week, and your humble narrator certainly made the most of it. Yes gentle reader, August 7 was the fourth...

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Mad About Metaxa

Mad About Metaxa Your intrepid liquor reporter was out on another on of those newfangled Internet dates, and ended up meeting a darling young lady of recent...


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