Our Land, Revealed: Meeting BC’s wine leaders
It was a real treat to be able to listen to an informative discussion of what makes BC a distinctive and important place to make wine. This morning’s event, titled Our Land, Revealed: Opening Plenary, brought out the true leaders of BC’s wine industry, such as Harry McWaters, Anthony Von Mandl, and winemaker Howard Soon […]
Bill Eggert of Fairview Cellars interview
It was great to catch up with Bill Eggert at Tuesday's Great Big Kitchen party held at Inform Interiors on Tuesday evening. Bill, who I usually picture with his boots on working the land back in Oliver, BC, looked in his element pouring his wine in Gastown. I asked him what people had to look […]
Golf courses, wineries straining Okanagan water: report
My friend Barry Sharpe over at BCGolfNews.com is sharing news of a study on the environmental pressure golf courses and wineries are placing on water supplies in the Okanagan. In B.C.'s Okanagan, Canada's driest watershed, the population increased to 317,000 in 2001 compared with 115,000 in 1971 – a jump of about 175 per cent. […]