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Hamilton Street Grill Wine Tastings

Vancouver’s most popular wine tasting series is back and this month Hamilton Street Grill is featuring some great wines from Down Under. There have been few other wineries throughout Australia who have helped shape the evolution of the Australian wine industry as McWilliam’s wines. Vineyards and winery’s that go as far back as 1877 and [...]

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Summer Wines from Vitti Wine and Lager

More Summer Sipping Happy Days are here and now that the sun shines we can wake out of our prolonged winter slumber and slip onto our beach loungers. And so to lubricate that transition I offer two hot weather wines that are good as they are or with some summer fare. Pentage Rose 2011 Okanagan [...]

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Killjoy inYaletown

Killjoy in Yaletown by Donnelly Group

Killjoy Cocktail Tavern by the Donnelly Group It looks as though the Donnelly Group is continuing their pursuit of world wide domination. Their latest opening, the Killjoy, looks to be their most varied incarnation yet. Located in the old Beauty Mark location at 1120 Hamilton the Killjoy is a funky charcuterie and wine bar. VIP [...]

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Summer white wines

Warm Weather Whites

Well here we are in June and we’re still giving our thermostats a workout. In our heart of hearts we know however that it’s still too early for anything resembling summer here on the coast. So in an, perhaps entirely misguided, exercise in wish-fulfillment I present two old world classics that you should revisit once [...]

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Yaletown’s Hooker’s Green

Hooker’s Green in Yaletown is now officially open. With their VIP opening celebration now behind us, The Donnelly Group’s newest venue is ready for summer. And it looks FANTASTIC! Located directly downstairs from the New Oxford, Hooker’s Green serves as a rec room for the popular Yaletown venue. The two rooms are connected by a [...]

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Viti Riesling Wine Review

Viti Wine Review

There are certain grapes synonymous with certain countries and often for good reason. As a grape Riesling can do well in different, generally cooler, parts of the world but it’s as rippling, powerful, fragile, muscular and breath-taking to behold as a wild horse when you get the best examples from Germany. Dönnhoff 2010 Riesling 9.5% [...]

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Peter Girges Chinois

Have Patio – Will travel

It’s patio season! There is no better time of the year than Yaletown patio season. And one local Yaletown restaurant is hurrying to get ready for this active season. Chinois, located at 1035 Mainland Street is busy putting the finishing touches on what will soon be one very popular Spring and Summer time patio. It’s [...]

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