By Rick VanSickle You can’t judge a vintage by the devastation left in the wake of the previous growing season, although it can’t be ignored either.
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle One Niagara winemaker took a literary view of the Ontario harvest in 2022, calling it “Dickensian … a tale of two vintages. It was
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle It takes a village to build a wine industry, and that’s exactly what two Niagara wineries – one new, the other existing — plan to d
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle I do not remember the first time I met Brian Schmidt. It was pre-twactor tweet era, that’s for certain, and it really goes all the
Read MoreBy Rick VanSickle In the recent informative and colourful series by winemaker Brian Schmidt on his Facebook page, he takes readers down a long and wi
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