By Rick VanSickle After a couple of disastrous years, things are beginning to return to “normal” in the Okanagan Valley. (more…)
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle By any measure, the 2026 Grapes for Humanity Benefit Wine Auction features the most donated Canadian VQA wines ever to come up fo
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle Inside a hidden room at Brock’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute it is eerily silent but for the odd slurp, swish,
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle I wrote my wine first wine column while working as an editor for the Calgary Sun newspaper over 25 years ago. (more…)
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle In a story loaded with chapters, Niagara’s Domaine Le Clos Jordanne has just revealed its next instalment. (more…)
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