Two items of news in from Canada this morning. Firstly comes the news that one of the country's most talented winemakers is leaving his post. Thomas Bachelder has been responsible for the...

The Canadian wine industry is in turmoil, but with any luck will emerge from its current state infinitely stronger than it was before. A recent showcase of Ontario's finest Chardonnays in London...

‘The people have spoken and the Ontario wine industry appears to have listened.’ So begins a report in yesterday’s Canadian press by Monique Beech on proposed changes to the controversial...

Fewer than one in five Canadian wine drinkers can recognise and correctly understand the term 'Cellared in Canada', according to a new poll of wine drinkers in Canada released today by...

I have just received this encouraging news from the authorities in Ontario in response to our campaign to clean up labelling and merchandising of imported blends in Canada, generally described as...

See also my tasting notes on 100 BC wines. The countryside is stunning. A ribbon of lakes with sandy beaches threaded between slopes of ponderosa pines, granite cliffs and...

In a nutshell : Icewine and increasingly successful whites and even reds. Main grapes : The usual suspects plus such acceptable hybrids as Vidal and Marechal Foch. Canadians are...

See also full tasting notes on more than 70 top Canadian wines If you were invited to a tasting of the crème de la crème of Canadian wine would you a) titter...

The great majority of these 70+ tasting notes on a very substantial proportion of Canada’s best wines were taken at a tasting of ‘the crème de la crème of Canadian...

You may remember in my most recent survey of Oregon Pinots just how impressed I was by the Lemelson wines which were made by Canadian Thomas Bachelder. He has now returned...

11 Jun - See new addition at the bottom of this article. My article From bottom to top - Canada's wines a week last Saturday engendered various contradictory responses. First, at...

Almost exactly 34 years ago my very first professional wine tasting took place in Canada House, overlooking the fountains of Trafalgar Square in central London. It featured what were then...

Canadian wine producers are getting very bold, planning a major tasting of what they reckon are the best Ontario Chardonnays at Canada House in London the day before the start of this year’s...

Spare a thought for the visitors to the current Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Not only is there a serious shortage of snow, but you could say that there is also a serious...

Although the US is now one of the three most successful exporters of wine to the UK, thanks chiefly to the extraordinary success of brands such as Blossom Hill and Gallo, It's not that easy for us...