August 17th, 2008
Yesterday, the first (annual, we hope) VinoCamp Vancouver. I covered several of the sessions, found a Riesling I actually really enjoy (which is unusual for me), and became a hardcore Riedel glass convert.
Here’s some of the great shots from participants yesterday.
Image source: Megan Cole. You can […]
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August 16th, 2008
Kelly and Annie write Full Bodied. Annie has a great wine rack. So does Kelly.
See? Great Wine Rack.
Annie and Kelly write Full Bodied. They talk about wine, and, well, wine. Check them out. They also blogged VinoCamp. It’s all so very good.
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August 16th, 2008
France.
If you want to look at organic wine, you have to look at France, where it started. A gazillion years ago.
The one thing to understand about organic wine is that there are 100s of wines you’ll never see on an “organic” shelf in the liquor store. They, much like several of the organic vegetable […]
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August 16th, 2008
Wine is the message. The glass is the messenger.
The senses are the first things that help you taste wine. Your eyes let you take everything in, and then your sense of touch. You feel a smooth round stem with Riedel.
There’s some controversy over stemless glasses, but have you noticed, that when you knock […]
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August 16th, 2008
Micelle Bouffard and Michaela Morris, the sommeliers from House Wine (Michaela is french and calls is ‘ouse wine) are going to talk about food and wine pairings and are going to discuss guidelines. (image source, House Wine)
(wow, that Prospect Winery Riesling is amazing!)
House Wine offers a variety of wine related services, from private and […]
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August 16th, 2008
Township 7 has provided our “late morning wine” this morning. A lovely semillion, a rose and a private label red.
Brad Cooper, the winemaker for Township 7 (one of my favourite BC wine brands), is talking about how you can have the wine experience at home. If you add sugar to grapes and leave it for […]
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August 16th, 2008
Wow. It’s 10:35 am. The first bottles of wine have been cracked. This really is the first time that I’ve set an alarm and gotten up at 8 am to drink wine.
Kathy Malone, a winemaker, who works at Artisan Wine Co, is talking about the BC wine growing regions, calling geography is a flavour. […]
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August 16th, 2008
Dr. Hennie JJ van Vuuren has been with UBC for almost 10 years. There are 29 researchers from Canada Bordeaux, Germany, South Africa and Switzerland.
in the last 10 years there have been 11 million dollars in grants. Dr van Vuuren studies the genetic construction of wine yeasts, and has genetically engineers malolactic wine yeast […]
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August 16th, 2008
This is definitely not the wine festival!
Vancouver’s first VinoCamp is bringing wine, people and tech together in one place, making wine accessible, educational and ideally, fun.
I’ll be live blogging the entire conference – everything from the BC Wine region through to Indian food and wine pairing cooking class. We’re looking at sustainable and […]
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