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Join us at the Crystal Ballroom in the Fairmont Empress Hotel at 721 Government Street for an evening of discovery and fun at our 5th Annual Wine Islands Spring Tasting! Sip and sample award winning wines, ciders and meads and meet over 30 participating winemakers, cidermakers, meadmakers and distillers of Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands. Tickets are $25 [...]

Friday March 30th, Fairmont Empress (Crystal Ballroom) The Wine Islands Vintners Association (WIVA) is holding its annual spring wine tasting event featuring wines, ciders, and meads on Friday March 30th at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC. The Wine Islands Vintners Association, or WIVA as it is better known, is “a grouping of over [...]

Spring is upon us and the team and I are busily planning the third annual Taste: Victoria’s Festival of Food and Wine July 21-24, 2011.  The schedule-in-progress is listed on the website www.victoriataste.com/2011-calendar-of-events and ticket sales will begin in May.  Stay tuned for further details! If you’re interested in doing a whole lotta wine tasting [...]

Vancouver Island wineries came away with a treasure-trove of medals in the 2010 All-Canadian Wine Championships. In all Island wineries won 21 medals in 13 different categories.  The haul included two coveted Double Gold medals–one for Muse Winery’s 2008 Marechal Foch and one for Church and State Wines’ 2007 Chardonnay. Gold medal winners included Rocky [...]

The Wine Islands Vintners Association (WIVA) is holding its annual wine tasting event featuring wines, ciders, meads and spirits from over twenty of the islands best wineries. A sampling of the wineries attending are Averill Creek Vineyard, Beaufort Winery, Blue Grouse Winery, Carbrea Vineyard, Chase & Warren Estate Wines, Cherry Point Vineyard, Church & State [...]