by Bill Koopmans | Aug 1, 2020 | Regions, Wine
This month, we’re travelling from New Zealand to explore top producing wine regions of the world at home. Viticulture in Canada is about 2,000 years old. The regulatory body is called Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) which provides a degree of quality assurance...
by Bill Koopmans | Jul 1, 2020 | Regions, Wine
This month, we’re travelling from Hungary to explore top producing wine regions of the world in New Zealand. Therefore, we’ll be visiting the world’s most southern wine producing country. Winemaking here, which dates back to the early 1800s, survived the...
by Bill Koopmans | Jun 1, 2020 | Regions, Wine
This month, we’re travelling from Russia to explore top producing wine regions of the world in Hungary. Viniculture here, which dates back to Roman times, has survived through political, religious and economic challenges. It also survived the phylloxera...
by Bill Koopmans | May 8, 2020 | Food
Why make Champagne yeast bread? The impetus for me to try making Champagne yeast bread was when I discovered that COVID-19 is impacting the supply of yeast. A couple of weeks ago, when I was in our local grocery store, I overheard that it would be at least two...
by Bill Koopmans | May 1, 2020 | Regions, Wine
This month, we’re travelling from Romania to explore top producing wine regions of the world in Russia. Viticulture here dates back a few thousand years but wars, revolutions, phylloxera and prohibition nearly put an end to it. Vodka and beer are most often...
