Author - Nick Jeffrey

Nick Jeffrey

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Bewitching Beaujolais

Your humble narrator was chatting up a cute wine rep at a snooty wine tasting event last week, and she poured me a glass of Beaujolais. For those not in the...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Sweet Wines

When asked, most people will say that they prefer dry wines to sweet wines, which helps explain why dry wines outsell their sweeter counterparts by a factor of...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Radical Riesling

Your intrepid liquor reporter has been waiting for several years for the Riesling Revolution to begin, when that bold Germanic grape sweeps over all those...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Quintessential Quails’ Gate

Your intrepid liquor reporter has a long-standing tradition of visiting the Okanagan Valley over the Thanksgiving long weekend, and this year was no exception...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Corks or Screw Caps?

Old-school wine snobs will tell you that the only proper way to bottle wine is with a cork closure, and look down their noses at these newfangled screw cap...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Gin and Juice

The world is experiencing a Gin renaissance, and the charge is being led by the small artisanal distilleries. Gin has a long and sordid history, starting with...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Aging Wine

Some things just don’t improve as the years go by. Star Wars prequels and my waistline are two examples that immediately come to mind, but many others...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Gin and Juice

The world is experiencing a Gin renaissance, and the charge is being led by the small artisanal distilleries. Gin has a long and sordid history, starting with...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Dry Town No More?

Your humble narrator has been known to poke fun at our neighbours to the south for that failed social experiment called Prohibition back in the 1920’s. A...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

End Of An Era

Your humble narrator was sipping a frosty pint of Grasshopper last week, when a shudder went down my spine, almost like a million beer drinkers suddenly cried...


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