Wine in Croatia: Wineries Coming to the 2026 VIWF Croatia is one of Europe’s most exciting under-the-radar wine countries—where coastal vineyards meet mountain foothills, and indigenous grapes tell a story that stretches back more than 2,000 years. If you are heading to the the Vancouver International Wine Festival this year, you are in luck as…
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2025 Vancouver International Festival
Taste the Wine World at the 2025 Vancouver International Wine Festival The 2025 Vancouver International Wine Festival is proud to welcome 122 wineries representing 15 countries to the 46th annual festival, which takes place February 22-March 2, 2025. This end-of-winter celebration of the grape features the Wines of the USA, with an exciting West Coast showing from…
Heleen Pannekoek Fort Berens Winery
Quick Conversations In Wine – Heleen Pannekoek from Fort Berens Winery The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees that you can meet at the 2024 Festival. Here’s our Q&A with Heleen Pannekoek from Fort Berens Winery in Lillooet, British Columbia. Find more on the Wine Festival here. When…
Vancouver International Wine Festival Tickets on Sale
Vancouver International Wine Festival Celebrates Wines from Italy The 45th Vancouver International Wine Festival returns for an eight-day celebration of wine and food, February 24 to March 3 at the Vancouver Convention Centre and other venues around Metro Vancouver. The 2024 festival features 149 wineries participating in 42 events. This year, the spotlight shines on…
2023 VIWF Awards
CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE: VIWF ANNOUNCES 2023 TRADE COMPETITION WINNERS Spirited Industry Professional, Sommelier of the Year, Terry Threlfall Scholarship, Wine Program Excellence Awards The Vancouver International Wine Festival announced the 2023 trade competition winners on Friday at Celebrating Excellence: 19th Annual Awards Lunch Featuring South America, presented by ContainerWorld. The Celebrating Excellence program is part of the…
Vancouver International Wine Festival
The Countdown to the Vancouver International Wine Festival is on! For the first time, the Vancouver International Wine Festival is featuring an entire continent as its theme region! The spotlight shines on the wines of South America this April, with forty-four wineries representing four countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay – participating in a…
Vancouver Wine Festival
Tickets Still Available for the Vancouver Wine Festival The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on, but there are still a few events remaining if you haven’t yet booked your tickets. Check the Festival at a Glance for current availability. California Wine Beach Party Wednesday, May 18, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm PDT California vibes come alive…
VIWF Trade Competition Winners 2020
17th Annual Awards Lunch VIWF Trade Competition Winners A huge congratulations to everyone, especially this year’s Spirited Industry Professional Winner, our friend, and fellow Dana Lee Harris! The Vancouver International Wine Festival announced the 2020 trade competition winners on Friday at Celebrating Excellence: 17th Annual Awards Lunch Featuring France, presented by ContainerWorld. The Celebrating Excellence program…
Antonella Bronca Sorella Bronca
Quick Conversations In Wine – Antonella Bronca From Sorella Bronca The wine world is in Vancouver for the Vancouver International Wine Festival and Antonella Brona is representing her winery, Sorella Bronca at the festival tastings and a dinner at Minami. Here’s some tidbits of info from this Italian winemaker in our speed round of Q…
Stefanie Dylla Laughing Stock Winery
Quick Conversations in Wine Stefanie Dylla Laughing Stock Winery The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick fire questions to get to know…
Leah Adint Chateau Ste. Michelle Vancouver Wine Festival
Quick Conversations In Wine Leah Adint Chateau Ste. Michelle The Vancouver International Wine Festival starts this week and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick fire questions to get to…
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…
Nathalie Bonhomme Les Vins Bonhomme Vancouver Wine Festival
Quick Conversations In Wine – Nathalie Bonhomme Les Vins Bonhomme Unfortunately this winemaker is stuck at home for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, due to an injury, but the winery will be there! Here’s more about Spain’s Nathalie Bonhomme from Les Vins Bonhomme in our speed round of Q + A with her. There’s also…
Caroline Schaller of Osoyoos Larose
Quick Conversations in Wine – Caroline Schaller of Osoyoos Larose 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…
Vancouver International Wine Festival Trade Competition Winners
Spirited Industry Professional, Sommelier of the Year, Wine Program Excellence Awards The Vancouver International Wine Festival announced the 2019 trade competition winners today at Celebrating Excellence: 16th Annual Awards Lunch Featuring California Wines, presented by ContainerWorld. The Celebrating Excellence program is part of the three-day Trade Days Conference; the program honours those professionals who contribute to this region’s exceptional…
What’s Good This Week – February 25 Edition
What To Do In Vancouver This Week How can we be celebrating the last week in February already? I’m feeling like I’ve done nothing this year, it’s a blur, it’s just flown by and it’s been a lot of reaction and not much pro-action. After a week in Kelowna for the Canadian Culinary Championships (congrats…
Vancouver International Wine Festival – News Release
Wine, Wine All Around – and Many Drops to Drink It’s not too late to get in on the action at the 41st Vancouver International Wine Festival as a few stellar events still have tickets available. This week’s festival includes 53 events, 160 wineries, 16 countries, 1,425 wines and 25,000 participants. Join them! If you…
What’s Good This Week February 7
Vancouver Events and Happenings I’ve been up at Kelowna Gold Medal Plates Culinary Championships this past weekend and was so impressed with the chefs and all their hard work, and have to give a big shout out to all the Okanagan college culinary students and recent grads who assisted them. What an hard working group…
What’s Good This Week – It’s February
What To Do This Week – Just In Case There’s Room in Your Calendar I can’t believe we’ve gone through a whole month of 2017 already! How’s your year been? I’ve got lots of plans and hopes for the year ahead and I’m finding the biggest issue for me is trying to do too much and…
Vancouver International Wine Festival Update Last Call For Tickets
The Vancouver International Wine Festival Update! Almost sold out! Wine stars from around the world will travel to Vancouver for the 38th Vancouver International Wine Festival, February 20 to 28 at the Vancouver Convention Centre and other venues in Metro Vancouver. Here’s the Vancouver International Wine Festival Update. Each of the 155 wineries from the 14…
