March 20, 2013: Live Tweet Tasting a BCWine

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

Live Tweet Tasting a BC Wine

Tonight is a repeat of a chat we did last year and it was so successful we’d like to do it again.  Just got to a store, or to your cellar (or closet), choose a BCWine  and open it up from 8-9pm on Wednesday March 20.

Tweet your experience.  Review it or pair it with food, discuss it’s flavours and aromas, why you chose it, the label, the winery’s story, how you go the bottle–whatever.

You’re going to love this BCWineChat!

March 6, 2013: BC Wine and Oysters

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT: 

BC Wine and Oysters

What could be finer than a crisp, refreshing BC white wine with beautiful fresh BC oysters?  This week we talk about this pairing–what works and what doesn’t.  We will have on some oyster experts as well so get ready to learn and ask and participate!

As will be mentioned on the chat, Osoyoos will hold its 2nd Annual Oliver Osoyoos Oyster Festival from April 17-21, 2013.

Febraury 27, 2013: Red Wine With Fish

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

Red Wine with Fish  

Join us for a great chat on food and wine pairing.  We will be talking about uncommon pairings (hence the name “Red Wine with Fish”).  There are no rules to food and wine pairing…but there may be some helpful guidelines to be had.

For an added bonus, this will be our first In Real Life (IRL) #BCWineChat tweet- up as well!  A group of tweeters who love BC food and wine will be live at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver tweeting up a storm of food comments from Chef Ned Bell and wines from some BC Wineries.

Join the group!  Ask lots of questions and don’t be intimidated!

January 23, 2013: Much Maligned but Still Popular BC Chardonnay

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

Much Maligned but Still Popular BC Chardonnay January 23, 2013

ABC?  Anything But Chardonnay?  Not on this BCWineChat!  Tonight we celebrate the Chardonnay grape in British Columbia.  Bring your opinions, questions, facts and pull up a fresh glass of BC Chardonnay.   Voila! You are now a participant in a one hot hour on twitter!

January 9, 2013 8-9pm: Vancouver Wine Festival 2013

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

Vancouver Wine Festival 2013 January 9, 2012

Tickets go on sale this week for the Vancouver International Wine Festival in Vancouver starting the week of February 25, 2013.  Whether you’re a seasoned veteran of the tasting or a newbie we’d love to have you on the chat tonight talking about your plans.

There are great seminars (some with wine and some without), winemaker dinners and of course the huge “big room” tastings.  If you’ve never been and were thinking that this might be the year to start, this is a great one hour chat for you!

Summary of 2012

#BCWineChat—The First Year

Dec 21, 11            Interprovincial Wine Shipments

Dec 28, 11            BC Wine Resolutions

Jan 4, 12               Regulations for Retailers and Restaurants

Jan 11, 12             BCLDB and Licensing Regulations for BC Wineries

Jan 18, 12             Meaning of Organic, Biodynamic, Sustainable and Natural Wines

Jan 25, 12             What’s Happening in BC Wineries this Week?

Feb 1, 12              Vancouver Playhouse

Feb 8, 12              Ways to Boost Winery Tourism in BC—Part One

Feb 15, 12            Ways to Boost Winery Tourism in BC—Part Two

Feb 22, 12            What Will the BC Wine Industry Look like in 2017?

Feb 29, 12            Your BC Wine Epiphany Moment

Mar 7, 12             No Such Thing as a Stupid BC Wine Question

Mar 14, 12           Does BC do Pinot Noir Well?

Mar 21, 12           BC Wine Prices

Mar 28, 12           How to Make Wine Drinkers out of Non Wine Drinkers

Apr 4, 12              Wine Pairing Everyday Meals

Apr 11, 12            Cellared in Canada

Apr 18, 12            Open Up a Never-Had Bottle of BC Wine and Tweet

Apr 25, 12            The Wines of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands

May 2, 12             A Chat about #BCWIneChat

May 9, 12             BC Wine and Farmer’s Markets

May 16, 12          Fire Up the Grill!

May 23, 12          Corkage (Bring Your Own Bottle of Wine) to BC Restaurants

May 30, 12          Interprovincial Wine Shipments: Bill C-311

Jun 6, 12             This Week in BC Vineyards

Jun 13, 12            Special #BCWineChat: #FreeMyGrapes

Jun 20, 12            BC Roses

Jun 27, 12            Wine Touring for Newbies

Jul 4, 12               The Age-ability of BC Wines

Jul 11, 12             The Underappreciated. The Next Grape Stars of BC

Jul 18, 12             What International Wines do you Buy and Why?

Jul 25, 12             So Now You can BYO in BC (Corkage)

Aug 1, 12              What Grapes are Best in BC’s OTHER Regions?

Aug 8, 12              Wine Blogger’s Conference 2013 in Penticton

Aug 15, 12           Your Most Memorable Moment at a BC Winery

Aug 22, 12           Off Site Winery Tasting Rooms

Aug 29, 12           Your Favourite Home Cooked Meal with BC Wine

Sep 5, 12              BC Harvest 2012: Pre Harvest Report

Sep 12, 12            Good Old Fashioned Venting on BC’s Archaic Liquor Laws

Sep 19, 12            BC Winery Restaurants

Sep 26, 12            DO BC’s Wineries Help of Hurt the Environment?

Oct 3, 12               BC Wine and Thanksgiving

Oct 10, 12            A Cabernet Franc Celebration

Oct 17, 12            BC Bubbly!

Oct 24, 12            Wine, Charity Auctions and BC’s Liquor Control and Licensing

Oct 31, 12            Open Mic Night on #BCWIneChat

Nov 7, 12             What is ModernizeWine?

Nov 14, 12           #BCWineChat Meets #RoseRev

Nov 28, 12           Best BC Restaurant for BC Wine

Dec 5, 12              Sweet Dessert Wines from BC

Dec 12, 12            How Did #BCWineChat Affect Change in 2012?

October 31, 2012 8-9pm: Open Mic Night on #BCWineChat

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

Open Mic Night on #BCWineChat

Use the hour of #BCWineChat to discuss anything you want relating to BC’s wine industry. Have you just had a great BC wine?  Tell us about it!  Do you have a gripe?  Tell us about it!  Do you have a suggestion for a future #BCWineChat?  Tell us about it!  Bored?  Tell us about it!

Getting the picture?

October 3, 2012 8-9pm PST: BC Wine and Thanksgiving

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

BC Wine and Thanksgiving

Get your turkey on!  It’s BC wine and Thanksgiving pairings. We’d love to hear about your favourite wine (red, white or both) that you like to pair with your Thanksgiving Day meal.  We’d especially like to hear if you don’t have the traditional turkey meal what it is you do eat on Thanksgiving and what BC wine you like to pair with it.

Join us at 8-9 pm Wednesday!

August 29, 2012: Your Favourite Home Cooked Meal with BC Wine

HERE’S HOW THE CHAT WENT:

Your Favourite Home Cooked Meal with BC Wine

This week’s chat is all about going home.  Everyone has a favourite home cooked meal and we’d love to hear about it.  Have you found that special BC Wine that goes with it?  The perfect pairing?  Bonus points if you tweet out a picture of it and can tell us the secret recipe!