Dr. Booze, wine sleuth
I spent the last thirty years of my life with a morbid fascination of fraud, particularly wine fraud. Read More
Inexpensive French whites
Rediscovering French White wine. Read More
Time for the Dr. Booze challenge
What do you pair with the unpairable that your guests will drink? Read More
Manitoba’s rich, sweet, tasty brewing history
300 Years of Beer explores our province's love affair with the cause of, and solution to all of life's problems. Read More
Dr. Booze breaks the $50 mark
There are any number of people out there who buy quite expensive wines – around the $50 mark – but don’t have a wine cellar.… Read More
For New World drinkers: Chilean cabernet sauvignon
If you haven't been paying attention you may not have noticed the creeping expansion of the Chilean sections of stores. Read More
Sippin’ on some sauvignon
Chile, New Zealand and South Africa are my go-to countries when I want a sauvignon blanc. Read More
Write drunk; edit sober: Seelbach cocktail
Legend has it that Fitzgerald first began writing the Great Gatsby on cocktail napkins from the hotel's Old Seelbach Bar. Read More
To screw or not to screw?
Columbia Crest is leading the way with their substantial, spectrometer testing of corks and wines to maintain quality control. Read More
The rise of Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc is an unrepentant, sharp-edged weapon of a wine. Read More
The torrontés of spring
One of the more interesting marketing phenomena to observe is the rise of an obscure varietal. There are about a thousand wine grapes out there, with more being cross-bred all the time. Read More
Write drunk; edit sober: The old fashioned
Some people connect the Old Fashioned cocktail with the first recorded definition of the cocktail in general--"a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters"--which dates to 1806. Read More
A spectrum of Spanish wines
I have thought for a very long time the best bangs for your buck at all price levels - yep all of them, from one through six figures are to be found in Spain. Read More
A tour through the reds of France
This is a country that makes an astounding variety of wines at all price points. Read More
Try an Argentinian malbec this Easter weekend
Last year I thought Argentinian Malbec market was becoming overheated. Since then, the market for Argentina has become even hotter. Read More
Write drunk; edit sober: The martini
The first martinis were served in the early 1800s in California and were likely named for Martinez, a town near San Francisco. Read More