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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!
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With the world ending and all in a couple of days, we thought you might have chosen a wine to be nearby you when all the chaos begins.
#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?
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Media, Reviews and Competitions
Do you follow what the wine media say? Do you place more importance on “traditional” wine reviews or those from bloggers? Do competition results matter to you in how you choose a wine? We’d love to hear from consumers this week on all things wine media related. Wineries and retailers are encouraged as well to discuss their philosophy on submissions of wines to media and competitions.
See you at 8pm on Wednesday!
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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!
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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!
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What International Wines Do You Buy and Why?
So many wines so little time. Of course us BC-ers all love BC wines but most of us drink wines from all over the world. Which wines do you drink that are from outside of Canada? Why do you choose these wines? Is it the price, the price to quality ratio, the packaging, a recommendation by a friend? Are you choosing an international wine because of the country or the variety or both?
How often do you choose a wine from outside of BC or Canada as compared with one from another country? Is it something you do all the time or only on rare occasion?
Recommendations, discussion on pricing, value of wine and what you choose to buy–all in this week’s quick one hour discussion on #BCWineChat. Follow, watch, participate. We’d love to have you!
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OPEN UP A NEVER-HAD BOTTLE OF BC WINE AND TWEET April 18, 2012
Get out to your most-trusted retailer and grab yourself a bottle of BC wine that you have never tried. Better yet, try one from a winery you are unfamiliar with. Get you unscrewing hand ready, or your favourite corkscrew, open it up DURING the one hour chat and start tweeting. You don’t have to know any fancy lingo you just have to convey how you feel about the wine. If the wine “isn’t working for you” get out some food and try it again (sometimes you need food so that a wine shows its best).
Bonus points? Find something out about the winery or the wine before you open the bottle and share with the rest of us during the hour.
Super extra bonus points? Bring a friend over and open two bottles.
It is possible that the chat will start out slow (as we all are tasting). It is also possible the tweets at the start of the hour will be more coherent than the ones at the end of the hour…but we’ll just go with it!
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CELLARED IN CANADA April 11, 2012
Come one! Come all! Time to talk Copper Moon, Jackson Triggs Proprietor’s Selection, Linden Bay, Wild Horse Canyon, Sawmill Creek, Painted Turtle, Naked Grape, Domaine D’Or, Schloss Laderheim and Similkameen Superior–to name a few.
Wines under the “Cellared in Canada” section of BC liquor stores are available at a lower price than other BC VQA wines. There is a place for wines under $10. Other country’s lower priced exports are generally made from grapes grown in the export country, but in Canada there is not a lot of extra acreage available for growing grapes to satisfy this price category. Therefore, commercial wineries are allowed to bring in grapes, juice or wine from outside of Canada, bottle it here and label it “Cellared in Canada”.
Specifically, the labels now generally read “Bottled in BC from Imported and Domestic Wines”. In British Columbia this means that these wines MAY be produced from 100% foreign content. In Ontario it means that these wines are produced with NO MORE THAN 60% foreign content (slated to change in 2014 to match BC’s rule so that it does not need to contain any Canadian wine).
How is it allowed that these wines can state on their back labels “Cellared in Canada from Imported AND Domestic Wines” when in BC they do not need any amount of BC content whatsoever? Do these wines fill a niche in Canada? Producers of Cellared in Canada wines such as VINCOR, Peller Estates and Mission Hill maintain that this category of wines are responsible for a considerable number of jobs in the Canadian wine industry and that they allow Canadian wineries to compete in a category that VQA wines cannot satisfy. Do these wines get any unfair advantages on wine lists and retail shelves that are not afforded to wines made from BC grown grapes? Does the average consumer still believe that these wines are made from BC grapes? Should terms such as “Similkameen” be allowed on a product that contains no grapes from BC?
We’re looking for comments from all sectors on this #BCWineChat–BC wineries, retailers, restaurants and, of course, most importantly consumers.
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HOW TO MAKE WINE DRINKERS OUT OF NON WINE DRINKERS
A few questions to ponder for this week’s chat:
Not everyone is raised in a family that drinks wine. How can people who don’t enjoy wine come to enjoy it if they are not exposed to it until they reach their 20’s? Are there easy ways to educate new wine drinkers that are innovative but won’t alienate other more established fans of BC wines?
Are there some wines that you would suggest to a new wine drinker that would be easier to fall in love with than others–ie: a gateway wine(s)? Are there other ways to enhance a new wine drinker’s experience so that it will be less intimidating?
If you are a new wine drinker, or can remember when you were one, we would LOVE to hear from you this week!
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