Bodega Sarmentero Maria Lopez Vancouver Wine Festival

Quick Conversations In Wine – Maria Lopez of Bodega Sarmentero The Vancouver International Wine Festival is just around the corner, and we’d like to know more about who’s attending and what they’re interested in in the world of wine, and thought you would too. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women…

Wine Wednesday With Barb Wild Borsao Garnacha

Barb Wild’s Weekly Pick Is Borsao Garnacha Barb Wild has been sipping again and this week’s pick is Borsao Garnacha. Read more on wine on The Good Wine Gal site, and her previous picks are here. Happy Wine Wednesday wine lovers! I’m happy to report that I’m in Spain at the moment. It’s not particularly warm but the sun is shining,…

Spanish Food And Wine For Summer

Sipping Spanish Wine And Whipping Up Some Gazpacho Recently we’ve been cooking from Clodagh’s Suppers, a new cookbook from Clodagh McKenna, and we have a few recipes to share, but today we’ll start with her Gazpacho. We’ve been sourcing our tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from Taves Farms, at the nearby Kitsilano Farmers Market, as they…

Sherry-Tapas Bar – One Night Only: Thursday, October 8th!

The Wine Umbrella produces a one-night only Sherry-Tapas Bar at Commercial Drive’s Croatian Cultural Centre featuring the diverse wines of Sherry. Presented alongside these fortified wines will be an abundance of signature tapas created by Vancouver’s Celebrity Tapas Chef Gord Martin of Bin 941 and Bin 942. Running from 5 to 8pm, the evening’s vibe…