Bill George has been up for two days picking Icewine grapes and is exhausted.

"Yeah, I'm pretty tired," the Chair of the Grape Growers of Ontario admits from his Niagara grape farm during a phone interview. "But you really go to town when the temperature is right."

And boy, is...

Not too long ago we were in B.C. for a working vacation.

Starting our trip in Vancouver, a city we've had the good fortune of visiting a few times over the years, we stopped by what's become a favourite Yaletown wineshop specializing in local bottles. It's a gorgeous little...

"Let's stop thinking of sparkling wine as 'special occasion wine,' and start thinking of it as everyday wine!" says Angelo Pavan, winemaker for Cave Spring in Niagara.

And so begins our lunch time tasting of 18 Ontario sparkling wines, somewhat ironically, at the start of holiday season.

But...

For those of you living under a rock for the past few weeks, you should know the 100th Grey Cup is coming to Toronto this Sunday.

It's looking to be a high-priority social event, as both football lovers and football fair-weathers get set to cheer on their team (or the...

With the time change, it's a good idea to not only check the batteries in your fire alarms, but use the extra hour to rummage through your wine cellar to make sure you're stocked for the winter.

Just like you take your sweaters out of storage, change the tires...

If you've been reading us for a while, you know we are huge fans of Ontario wine, but inevitably we get asked, "Why is it so expensive to buy Ontario wines? Especially when I can buy something for $8 from Argentina?"

So we decided to take it to the pros,...

We just finished another cellar management project, and it's a job well done if we do say so ourselves.

It took is a little over 40 hours, but we organized, inventoried and catalogued 600 bottles of wine in an impressive collection that contained cases of super Tuscans, Lafites, and Barolos...

OK! Bill C-311 has received Royal Assent and Canadian provinces are now free to set their own policies for wine trade without the federal government imposing any rules of its own.

So what's changed? Well, ummm -- and this is a bit awkward -- but nothing really....

A few days ago, we got a call from a client asking about proper temperatures for storing wine.

She just purchased a swanky new fridge that had three separate temperature controlled sections. Ostensibly, one was designated for white, the other red, and the last sparkling wine.

It's with some humility that we must change our stance on a long-held belief of ours:

For years, we've insisted that you do not need to cook with great wine -- or even barely passable wine for that matter. And for years, leftover wine -- usually the dregs of bottles...

A few days ago we invited ourselves to our friends' place after work for a last-minute visit. Hoping to get to the LCBO to pick a bottle of vino as a hostess gift, we were thwarted when business kept us past the liquor store closing time.

To my surprise, when...

Every day we get asked tons of questions about wine and all things associated with it. We're happy to answer any and all questions people have, but we thought we would put together a list of the top questions we're asked just about everyday -- if not a few times...

We finally found a time for all of our group of friends to get together for Sunday brunch. No small feat these days, as we all have hectic schedules balancing full-time jobs, family responsibilities, housekeeping and, well, sleep.

So, to maximize our precious quality time with our friends, we...

Not too long ago, we recommended a few crowd-pleasing wines, that are not only delicious, but completely affordable. With a few priced at under $8 a bottle, some would even say our suggestions were downright cheap.

Heralding our own advice, we went to the LCBO to pick up...

This is how the morning was spent: searching through restaurants' online reservation systems in vain trying to secure an increasingly elusive Valentine's Day reservation at a reasonable time.

Clicking through the time slots at about 10 different restos, it appears all that's available are the 5:30 or 9:30 seatings...

Football's big day is almost upon us and bars, breweries and television commercial producers have been ramping up for weeks in anticipation. Arguably one of the biggest sporting events around, fans and party goers will spend Feb. 5 perched in front of big screens, a drink in one hand, a...

There are about three weeks left until Valentine's Day and not surprisingly, V-Day promotions are in full swing.

As happy couples ramp up the romance, it may help to get a primer on the basics of wine service, because when you're trying to woo your sweetie with your suave self,...

It's Friday night. You and your nearest and dearest arrive at the new, swanky restaurant in town, dressed to kill and ready to celebrate your anniversary/big promotion/making it through another week virtually unscathed.

Everything is perfectly right with the world until the wine list is dropped in your lap...

Despite enjoying a mostly mild winter, there have been a few days when frost has blanketed our windows, frigid temperatures have forced us to bundle up like that kid in A Christmas Story and howling winds have caused serious debate on whether going outside to get...

It's January. 

The most wonderful time of the year has once again come and gone and, besides maybe a new camera, all you've really got to show for it is a wicked hangover and an extra 10 pounds.

And those last two items are making it easier for you to...