Tag - Food & Drink

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

New Beer For The New Year

The first month of the year is generally a write-off, with bleak and miserable weather, credit card bills from the holiday season finally arriving and...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Cabin Fever

The holiday season is now but a dim and fading memory, as the bleak months of January and February lie stretched out before us, mocking us with those gray...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Etruscan Excellence

We owe a lot to the ancient Etruscan civilization, a wealthy and powerful nation-state that existed from 900BCE to 100BCE.  The Etruscans were eventually...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Spirits of Japan

Japan is home to one of the ancient civilizations of the world, and like any of the great empires of history, has a long relationship with booze. Perhaps the...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Patagonia Pinot

While browsing the aisles of my local bottle shop last week, I came across an unfamiliar selection of Pinot Noir from Argentina. Experienced boozers in the...

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Joie To The World

Long timel readers may recall that I make an annual pilgrimage to the Okanagan Valley of BC to sip my way through the tasting rooms and vineyards of my...

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Radical Retsina

The Greeks have a long and storied history with wine. While there is archeological evidence of other countries cultivating grapes into various states of...

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Barbera-ians At The Gate

Art, architecture, food, and wine.  What’s not to love about Italy?  From time immemorial, Italy has been spreading its culture across the world, dating...

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Well Blau Me Down

I was browsing the aisles of my friendly neighbourhood booze merchant last week, when I bumped into one of those in-store tastings hosted by a roving wine rep...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Sour Power

The craft beer revolution continues to gain new adherents every day, with adventurous brewmasters reviving lost styles and looking for inspiration throughout...