Author - Nick Jeffrey

As the holiday season approaches, I have been bulking up the contents of the wine cellar in anticipation of visits with family and friends, and in recognition...

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...

In the squandered days of my callow youth, our world-class rye and barley crops were used mainly as cattle feed, with nary a thought given to craft beer or...

When wandering the aisles of a well-stocked wine merchant, the vast diversity of choices can leave even the most seasoned of wine drinkers in a state of...

October is a big month for indulging, with not one, but two separate holidays that revolve around eating and drinking with family and friends. Halloween is...

Taking advantage of what might be the last sunny weekend before autumn, I gathered with the usual suspects in my backyard to observe Port Wine Day on September...

While searching the wine cellar for something out of the ordinary, I made a fortuitous discovery of a cache of orange wines tucked away on a dusty shelf, just...

Always eager for a reason to uncork a bottle, my page-a-day calendar reminded me that it was time to oberve International Pinotage Day, the uniquely South...

few months back, with Calgary-based Dandy Brewing and Lacombe-based Blindman Brewing joining forces. This was not quite a merger or an acquisition, more of a...

As the dog days of summer turn slowly to autumn, I poked around in the dusty corners of the wine cellar to find a bottle to observe the changing of the seasons...