Some of our more pious readers may be in the middle of observing Lent, those forty days of fasting and resisting temptations between the festival days of...
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Blame It On Rio
The biggest street party in the world has come and gone for another year, with Carnaval wrapping up just a few days ago. For those unfamiliar with Carnaval, it...
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Bully for Barbaresco
While browsing the aisles of my local bottle shop, I came across a Barbaresco wine that I remembered fondly from last year’s vacation to Italy, so I naturally...
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Gose Riders in the Sky
I recently made a day trip to Drumheller to show off the badlands and dinosaur museum to some visitors from out of town, and after learning all about the...
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Nibbles and Nebbiolo
Looking for a last-minute bottle of wine while en route to a dinner party last week, my local bottle shop just happened to have a wine rep pouring samples from...
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40 Beers for 40 Years
ooking back four decades, I can dimly recall that 1985 was quite the year. Madonna and Huey Lewis were on the top of the charts. Cheers and the Golden Girls...
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Que Syrah Syrah
While at a recent meeting with my regular tippling posse, someone pulled out a few bottles of really old Syrah, and challenged us to a blind tasting against a...
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Fun With Furmint
One of my regular drinking companions grew up in the former Eastern Bloc, coming of age in the final days of the Cold War, when booze from decadent capitalist...
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Happy Beer-thday
Faithful readers may recall me waxing poetic about Chestermere’s own Township 24 Brewing, located at 100 Rainbow Road, who recently celebrated their seventh...
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Top of the Chart-reuse
Looking to impress my holiday guests, I was digging through the dusty corners of the wine cellar for forgotten gems, and came across an old bottle of...
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