Log In

Last week featured the story of American white oak with its creamy, vanilla, spice and coconut character that many Spanish and Australian winemakers like. French oak is tighter grained and produces silkier tannins and if you are concerned about the l...

There’s nothing like a browse through the aisles at People’s Pharmacy to make me realize that Halloween has changed – partly because time has marched on, partly because Hallmark are so good at convincing us it’s all important and partly because I’m o...

Cabernet Franc is a grape that I have always admired, but it seldom is allowed to stand on its own, as it is mostly used to add structure and aroma to Bordeaux wines and blends of this ilk from around the world. I have been paying close attention to ...

Auto-correct, spellcheck, predictive text — all so useful, and yet so, so annoying. Recently I signed an e-mail “Best Retards”. Resorting to shorthand afterwards and signing off “Best”, I actually wrote “Beast”. Worse, in answer to a Beat the Couch q...

At a tasting earlier this week I shared a few wines with about 40 clients of a popular restaurant in town and so while they are fresh in my mind I would like to tell you about a few of them. The Boisset family has a long history of winemaking in the ...

Last week I wrote about Jenna and that’s a little hard to follow. The highs and lows of our domestic life seem less significant these days. It’s a sense of perspective that I am trying not to lose. Everything I have to complain about seems ridiculous...

I have Canadian wine on my mind for personal and business reasons, firstly because I have just come back from Ontario after settling in a son who feels that four or five years added to his previous seven at a wonderful university is time well worth s...

If you knew that tomorrow you would have to start the fight of your life, for your life, would it change how you viewed today? Would you complain about your hair, knowing that soon it would fall through your fingers? Would you worry so much about wor...