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Oregon wine grape crop growth comes late with cool spring we...

Winemakers around the state are coping with another late growing season as persistently cool spring weather delays the growth of the grape crop, The Oregonian reported. Oregon's $1.4 billion wine industry has grown to more than 400 [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Calif. wine grape growers suffer a sobering spring

Wild spring weather across California's wine country has been enough to drive a vintner to drink. From killer snow in the Sierra Nevada foothills to dry-season downpours along the coast to a hard freeze in temperate Paso Robles, 2011 [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

2011 Spring Wine Guide: Willamette Valley

Dozens of different wine-grape varietals are grown in vineyards planted all over Oregon. But when it comes to finding the center of the state's viticultural universe, the Willamette Valley is it. Covering nearly 3.5 million acres, the [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Naramata Rolls Out New Wines With Aftergolw, A Rite of Sprin...

The Okanagan Spring Wine Fest gets under way April 30-May 9, 2010 with its signature Roll Out The Barrels! However the Naramata Bench Wineries Association, a collection of fifteen wineries on the eastern shore of Okanagan Lake above Pent [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

The top 10 white wines for spring

The rain is lashing down as I write, a sure sign that we're in the grip of an English spring. Sigh. It's cold, too, and in the park I see the first cricketers of the season looking like Michelin men as they shelter under the trees, shiverin [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Spring marks the return of rose

Best cellars Wine: Chateau Guiot Rose Country: France, from Costieres de Nimes Suggested retail price: $16, GST included Availability: Select wine and liquor stores Tasting notes: Here is a sweet deal on a very good rose from the south [...]

Posted On : May, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

You See Red, We See Spring

Although the arrival of spring prompts us to crave crisp white wines, an increasing number of the questions you've been asking us have to do with buying, cellaring and serving older reds. In January I purchased a 1994 Vega-Sicilia Unico a [...]