Author - Nick Jeffrey

When wine snobs get together to talk about wine, there are always a few regions that need no introduction. Places like Bordeaux, Côtes du Rhone, or Burgundy...

With the first sign of a sunny weekend in May, I somehow found myself on one of those pedal pub party machines, where you and a dozen like-minded reprobates...

After several snow-filled false starts, it seems that the early days of summer might finally have arrived in Alberta, with the first week of May seeing...

Cleopatra and Ptolemy. Cain and Abel. Sherlock and Mycroft. Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Bart and Lisa. History is full of great sibling rivalries. The world of...

Art, architecture, food, and wine. What’s not to love about Italy? From time immemorial, Italy has been spreading its culture across the world, dating back to...

Another St. Paddy’s Day has passed us by. The local drinking establishments saw the annual surge of drunken revellers dressed as leprechauns, and green beer...

Rather than spending Saint Patrick’s Day in a crowded pub filled with people in leprechaun hats and green beer, I will be sitting down for a dignified sampling...

Back in the previous millennia, when I was but a callow youth with an undeveloped palate for the finer spirits, I would stick to the single malts of Scotland...