It has begun. The incessant cacophony of holiday music has been grating on my tender ears for the...
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Black Friday, Black Lager
The typical mobs of crazed bargain hunters did not swarm the shopping malls like a plague of locusts this year for Black Friday, due to the Amazons and Wal...
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Awesome Auxerrois
My holiday season soirée schedule is heating up early this year, with the first event scheduled this week at a fancy wine bar, with an entirely French wine...
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Mad About Metaxa
I had a night out a Greek restaurant with the usual group of reprobates last week, and we dined like the Mycenaean kings of old, gorging ourselves on the...
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Fine Argentine Wine
The wines of Argentina seem to occupy more shelf space every time I visit my friendly neighbourhood booze merchant, and for good reason indeed. Argentina is...
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In-Cider Information
Thanks to our unseasonably warm fall weather, I decided to take advantage of a $99 seat sale on Flair Air for a quick weekend getaway in the Okanagan Valley...
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Go For Bordeaux
While browsing the aisles at the local bottle shop over the weekend, a wine rep was pouring samples from a selection of producers in Bordeaux, perhaps the most...
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Beautiful Brunello
The Tuscany region of Italy has been producing wine for thousands of years, and is famous the world over for its big and bold reds. The Tuscany wine region is...
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Down Under Wines
est you think that the libations landscape in the land down under is restricted only to chugging Fosters Lager while throwing a few shrimp on the barbie, let...
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Saucy Sancerre
I had out-of-province friends visiting last week for a milestone birthday, so I took them out to an overly expensive French restaurant to celebrate. Even a...



