Provence Marinaside Spotlights Tawse Winery in Cellar Series Dinner

Provence Marinaside’s First Cellar Series Dinner of 2026 Spotlights Tawse Winery For its first Cellar Series dinner of the year, join Provence Marinaside on Sunday February 8, as it shines the spotlight on exquisite wines from award-winning Tawse Winery which is located on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment. The six-course dinner, featuring many wines not normally available … Read more

Fort Berens 2025 Fall Releases

Fort Berens has just released three new wines alongside three offerings in their Reserve series. While many people are familiar with Fort Berens wines, I’m often surprised by how few have actually visited the winery. Lillooet is steeped in history. As one of the earliest towns in the province, it played an important role as … Read more

Wednesday Wine Reviews with @Sam_WineTeacher

  2024 Albarino Raimat Saira Costers del Segre, Spain $21.99 This organic wine is lemon yellow with medium intensity.  The nose displays aromas of lemon zest, pear, melon, white flowers, chamomile, and slate.  Good balance.  The flavours follow the nose.  A medium-plus finish.  Lovely at 12.5% ABV and a great food wine to serve with … Read more

From the Cellar with @Sam_WineTeacher

In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am going to include a new one that will appear from time to time.  I’m calling it, ‘From the Cellar’. It will be similar to the wine reviews, except that it will feature wines … Read more

Vancouver International Wine Festival Ticket On-Sale Dates

Tickets are currently on sale for four International Festival Tastings (IFT) and the Bacchanalia Gala Dinner + Auction,