Acclaimed author, journalist and sommelier Natalie MacLean will be in Calgary hosting an intimate wine tasting event to celebrate the launch of her new book – Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines Event Details: Where: Pages Bookstore 1135 Kensington Road N.W. When: November 19 2 events: 4-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. [...]

  I found these funny cocktail napkins while we were on holiday last month and just had to buy them…the statement is 100% true

Vancouver Islanders are proud of the fact that they can get so much quality product locally and it doesn’t stop at wine.    We checked out a local winery and had to sample a few bottles.  Here’s what we found!     A short drive up the old Island Highway toward Black Creek brought us to [...]

I reviewed a Red Rooster wine not that long ago.  It was a Riesling actually.  I just re-read that post and it had me giggling…Oh I think I’m awfully funny after I’ve had a drink (or two!)  Anyway, I just bought another bottle of Red Rooster Riesling as a gift and as I was in [...]

I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about wine.  It’s not for the lack of drinking…but more the lack of quality blogging time.  So this one will be a quickie!  Last week my mom and my sister were over for a visit and we decided to share a bottle.  I realized I’m not [...]

**First off – I spaced out on my wine post last week so please go read about Cheryl’s Pinot Grigio**   Well.  Where do I begin with this one.  Oh, how about with my dreams as crushed as the grapes this Middle Sister Rebel Red was made from.  How about there. I review wine every [...]

This week, our over-achiever Rhea has reviewed TWO wines. Show-off. Not only is she showing off a bit, but she’s received something I’ve been coveting for a while now.  A wine club membership.  Do you get what I’m saying here?  Wine of the Month club!  I’m so jealous.  I have to go out in the [...]

Can you believe it’s been 10 weeks? 10 weeks of wine reviews with my lovely and always amusing cohorts Rhea and Cheryl.  I’m so pleased with how this series has been going I’d like to see it continue for many more weeks but I’m curious how you, my readers, are enjoying the posts…if it so [...]

Reading Rhea’s post this week about her Menage a’ Trois California Red got me thinking not about kinky wine names, but about blends.  Being that Rhea is in California and often drinks Californian wines I mistakenly got the idea that blending wines was a fairly new, trendy practice.  But no.  Apparently all Bordeaux wines are [...]

I was wondering just the other day which one of my cohorts (or maybe myself) would get the first bad bottle of wine.  To this point, we’ve all enjoyed every drop we’ve reviewed and that struck me as odd…because it’s not that uncommon to find a horrid bottle amongst the gold. Were we just lucky [...]