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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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Hamilton Street Grill Pairing Menu

Hamilton Street Grill Spring Tasting Event

Spring Tasting at the Hamilton Street Grill (May 28 / 29) – Book Now! One of British Columbia’s best new wines 8th GENERATION along with one of Hamilton Street Grill’s favourite wine presenters, Quinn Diepold 5:30pm – 7pm – $25 per person In keeping with our popular and fun format, try a sampling of three [...]

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Vancouver Craft Beer Week in Yaletown

Vancouver Craft Beer Week in Yaletown

It’s baaaack!!!! Vancouver Craft Beer Week is the one of, if not the best, event of the year. And we wait patiently for its’ return each year. This year the guys at VCBW have upped the ante and have set up an event that lasts 9 days, features over 60 breweries from over 60 locations. [...]

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Spotlight on: Hester Creek Estate Winery

Even to the uninitiated it’s no secret that BC’s wine industry is burgeoning; with each successive year seeing new players come to market. Wine aficionados might therefore be forgiven, in their enthusiasm to try the latest and greatest, for over-looking the quality wines that some of BC’s pioneering wineries continue to deliver. With vineyards dating [...]

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The Beer This Year – 2012 Looks Promising

I’m going to start off with something fairly self-evident and entirely banal: in BC, beer enthusiasts have it pretty good. We not only have a few serious beer agencies importing quality Craft brew from the States and the Old World, but we have some of the finest brewing talent in the country working in our [...]

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Caffe Artigiano Yaletown photo contest

Calling all budding photographers! In an earlier post we discussed how local coffee chain Caffe Artigiano has opened up shop in Yaletown at the Opus Hotel. In celebration of this recent opening Caffe Artigiano is giving away a $100 gift card to the best photo taken at the new Caffe. Personally, I think this Caffe [...]

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