Tag - Food & Drink

After a long winter of lockdowns, summer is a time of garden parties, wedding dinners, graduations, and other special occasions that call for sparkling wines...

After a long winter spent in hermitlike isolation, I have been making up for lost time by accepting all invitations for in-person patio tipples with the crowd...

This month marks the 46th anniversary of the famed Judgement of Paris, when a group of bell-bottom wearing winemakers from Bordeaux held a blind tasting of...

While restocking the basement liquor supply in preparation for a potential quarantine during the sixth wave, I found that I was entirely out of Vermouth...

Worried about being stuck in isolation during the growing sixth wave, I made a trip to the No Frills on Rainbow Road to stock up the wine cellar, where I...

As the month of March gave way to the warmer days of April, I enjoyed the last few cans of Märzenbier that I was hoarding in the cellar.  For those in the...

With global supply chains in chaos, and the impending sixth wave soon to ramp up, I decided to stock up the dwindling stores in my windowless wine cellar, for...

As we near the relaxation of pandemic restrictions in Alberta, my thoughts turn to in-person meetups with my regular tippling crowd, instead of the weekly Zoom...

One of my regular drinking companions grew up in the former Eastern Bloc, coming of age in the final days of the Cold War, when booze from decadent capitalist...

I had high hopes for 2022, but they have already been dashed, thanks to the extra-contagious fifth wave.  All my revelry has been solitary, locked away in...