Category - Columnists

The holiday season, with its emphasis on family, joy, and closeness, is often a time of celebration. However, for those who have experienced the loss of a...

Well-seasoned tipplers may have noticed that as globalization has accelerated over the past few decades, both local and international booze peddlers are upping...

Those of you listening to the radio on September 19 may have been confused by all the Arrrr’s and Avast’s being tossed around by the announcers. Yes, gentle...

As our summer season turns to autumn, and family vacation season slowly winds down, I find myself recently returned to Alberta from a European vacation, where...

At the height of last week’s heatwave, I met up with the usual suspects in my tippling posse to cool down by observing the tenth annual National White Wine Day...

The Greek empire of antiquity helped to spread viticulture across the known world, to the neighbouring Romans, and as far away as Persia. Winemaking in Greece...

Faithful readers may recall me waxing poetic about the Reinheitsgebot, also known as the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516, which decreed water, barley, and...

The first week of July was pretty damp and miserable, but when the sun finally burned off all the cloud cover, I made a beeline to the nearest patio brunch...

I was recently browsing the aisles of my favourite booze merchant, when a bottle from Cahors caught my eye. For those readers not familiar with every unique...