Beaujolais, a light red wine vented exclusively using gamay, has delighted millions. It is, when well made and from a successful vintage, enchanting, easy-to-drink, uncomplicated, and goes with many different foods.
You can enjoy a glass in between meals, with meals, snacks, sandwiches, in short it as a versatile wine.
There are many styles of this popular [...]

This popular root vegetable native to Europe and southwestern Asia is healthy, stores well for a long time, and is very versatile.
There are two broad categories of carrots – eastern and western.
Western carrots emerged in the Netherlands in the 15 – 16th centuries and have been cultivated ever since. Many varieties were bred in France [...]

Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Reserve 2005.
95 points / $27 5,000 cases made Washington
Columbia Crest, founded in 1978, is part of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, which accounts for more than half the wine produced in Washington. The winery’s ability to combine quality and value has earned it 14 spots in our Top 100. But [...]

Since its inception in 1970’s, the Vintages division of the L.C.B.O has offered fine wines in limited quantities. This division now has twice-monthly releases, and once the inventory of a particular wine is sold out, it may or may not be offered again; if it is it will be another vintage. The management of Vintages [...]

Most people associate Brazil with snow-white, fine sand beaches, tropical scenery, exotic foods, maybe cachaca (sugarcane based distillate), but never with wine.
Yet Brazil is the third largest wine producing country in South America after Argentina and Chile. The country’s 200 wineries produce enough to cover the needs of the 120 million population, who average about [...]

Knitting is very relaxing and satisfying craft. Knitting to go makes it so much more convenient and simple with 25 chic and easy patterns created by Kris Percival.
These patters are geared to meet the needs of beginners to the more advanced and experienced persons who take pride in completing a project that can, and will [...]

Over the last three decades Australian winemakers conquered many of the world’s best wine markets with unbeatable quality and value. The best markets for Australian wines are the United Kingdom the U S A, Canada, the EU and increasingly China.
They call their regional wines “local heroes”.
Lauded by critics and admired by wine enthusiasts everywhere, Australia [...]

Andre Lurton, a well-established Bordeaux chateau owner is a traditional vitiviniculturist who believes in terroir and old-fashioned vinification techniques. He owns among others Chateau Bonnet in Entre-deux-Mers and Château La Louviere, both well known to Ontario wine consumers.
Chateau Bonnet produces both red and white, although located in a Bordeaux sub-region famous for light, acid-driven white [...]

Indian food has been shaped by millennia of foreign influences, including migrant bringing their traditional recipes, conquerors imposing new palace cooking policies, techniques, and ingredients, and new religions imposing dietary laws.
South Asian cooks assimilated all of these ideas, interpreted them in their unique way, created new ways, dishes and even suitable shapes of pots and [...]

Undoubtedly, Tokaj is the best-known Hungarian wine, and its reputation precedes many other world-famous dessert wines from France and Germany.
The history of the region and its beauty are such that UNESCO decided to add it to its world heritage site list in 2002.
About an hour’s drive northeast from Budapest along the modern M3 toll-highway, the [...]

Planning on eating healthily tonight? Ditch the salad and cook up a curry.
An Indian chef claims to have created the ‘world’s healthiest meal’ – a chicken and blueberry curry with goji berry pilau rice.
It blends traditional ingredients feted for their health benefits with contemporary ’superfoods’ said to help stave off everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s [...]

When captain Arthur Philip of the Royal British navy landed at Sydney Cove January 26 1788 with 700 convicts he had no idea what the land had to offer and how hospitable the indigenous population would be.
At the time, and estimated 200,000 aboriginals inhabited this, one of the largest islands of the world, and the [...]

Most people associate Thailand with exotic, fun-filled vacations, and fine food, but never wine. Yet Thailand produces wine and soon we may be able to buy them in North America. Located between latitudes 20 and 6 North, Thailand is a tropical country.
Every enophile knows that vines don’t like excessive heat and rain – both [...]

Now in its 15th year, Toronto’s annual Wine and Food Expositio0n will take place November 19 – 22 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
This year’s main sponsor is Vini Portugal. Many wineries of this small, but major wine producing country (Sixth by volume in the world) will be pouring their remarkable value wines
Wine and Food [...]

Spains viticultural riches remain a well-guarded secret. It is only recently that wine drinkers have begun to hear about grape varieties never mentioned before i.e menzia and godello; the former red, the latter white.
The country has hundreds of grape varieties that were close to extinction, and by luck or through the efforts of interested and [...]

Most wine lovers associate pinot with pinot noir, that capricious red, thin skinned, prone-to mutate grape variety originating in Burgundy. In successful vintages well made pinot noir is unbeatable in its elegance, silky smoothness and shear flavour of berries and forest floor aromas.
Pinot noir grows in other parts of the world, but never offers the [...]

The recent increased demand for sparkling wine proves once again the ingenuity of Dom Perignon and other monks in Champagne. The millions of bubbles, lightness and effervescence of sparkling wines capture the imagination of young and old.
Although champagne producers were the first to mass-market sparkling wines, other French wine producing regions had similar products but [...]