All posts by Nick Jeffrey
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Coul Your Jets
As part of my ongoing quest to visit all the new craft breweries popping up in Alberta, I made an overnight trip to Lethbridge this...
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Roll Out The Barrel
Oak barrels and booze have a long and intimate relationship. Prior to the 3rd century CE, the storage vessel of choice for storage and transport...
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Incredible Italians
In the spirit of research for this weekly column, I subscribe to a few of those wine-of-the-month clubs. I was giddy as a schoolgirl last...
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Spirits of Italy
I was enjoying an evening at a fancy Italian restaurant with a large group last week, and I noticed several people ordering spirits instead of...
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Brother Can You Spare A Wine?
Brothers can get a lot done when they work together. Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome. Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane....
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Viva Valpolicella
In the days of my callow youth, there were many glasses of plonk table wine consumed without a second thought, as Alberta was adrift in...
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Plank Pose & Pints
The annual drunken bacchanalia of St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone for another year. I can only dimly recall how the days of my...
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Franc-ly My Dear…
It’s time to have a franc discussion. That’s right, I am going to be franc with you. I was spelunking through a dusty and forgotten...
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Wines of South Africa
To broaden my boozing horizons, I have participated in several of those wine of the month clubs over the years, with usually one or two...
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Chinese Wine
As one of the most ancient civilizations of the world, China has enjoyed a long and prosperous love affair with booze. The first evidence of...
