by Heather | Mar 1, 2021 | Food, Pairing
Welcome to our blog series on cooking with wine in which we continue our culinary adventure with Beef Bourguignon. When you have a craving for comfort food, try this recipe. You can use any of your favourite red wines, including dry or off-dry. Before we...
by Heather | Feb 1, 2021 | Food, Pairing
Welcome to our new blog series on cooking with wine in which we begin our culinary adventure with Riesling Chicken. When you have a craving for barbecued chicken “beer-can style” but there’s no beer in the house, try this recipe. You can use Gewürztraminer,...
by Heather | Nov 1, 2020 | Crafting, Wine
Oak in craft winemaking is used to add aroma, flavour, complexity and body, which is sometimes referred to as mouthfeel. Certain commercial wines are aged in oak barrels but when you make your own wines, it’s done in glass carboys. So how do you get the...
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...
