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Good Old Fashioned Venting on BC’s Archaic Liquor Laws
Sometimes it’s good for you to get it all out. We have a long, long way to go, my friends, to bring BC’s archaic liquor laws into this century. Are you a Consumer? Restaurant? Retailer? Winery? You may still be asking yourself… “Why can (fill in the place) do (fill in the initiative) and in BC we are not allowed?”
Join in. Lurk. Vent. Rant. It’s OK. We’ll let you do it for one hour guilt free.
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BC Harvest 2012: Pre Harvest Report September 5, 2012
How’s the 2012 vintage shaping up? Get the first hand account of how our year is looking just before the wineries and vineyards go into harvest. It’s a great time for consumers, retailers and restaurants to ask questions of those people involved in The Crush. Participate, lurk, ask, answer. We’re talking all things relating to the 2012 vintage!
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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!
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Have you ever toured downtown Walla Walla in Washington state or Healdsburg in Sonoma County California? These are just 2 of the wine touring areas where you can find a large concentration of winery off site tasting rooms. These businesses are sometimes shared with other wineries or sometimes owned by one license.
They have advantage of drawing people to your wines and your brand that may never get to your winery. Wineries that are normally far apart from one another can come together at one tourist area and co-market. Of course they can also have their drawbacks such as an additional sales channel to manage and no connection to the winery location itself.
In either case, although they are allowed throughout the world, they are not allowed to exist in BC. Let’s discuss them this Wednesday!
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Your Most Memorable Moment at a BC Winery
Everyone who has been to a winery in BC has a story to tell about their best moment. It might have been that first time your tried your now-favourite varietal, or meeting a winemaker. Perhaps it was something you learned that you had never known before, or a beautiful scene you have never forgotten.
Please share with us that very memorable moment you have had at a BC winery on the Chat this Wednesday.
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WINE BLOGGER’S CONFERENCE 2013 IN PENTICTON!
The Wine Bloggers Conference hits Portland, Oregon in ten days, and is scheduled to come to Penticton in June 2013. Interested in wine blogging, or want to learn more about how you can join the Twitter conversation? Last year WBC generated 50 million Twitter impressions. We’ll talk about “WBC” and the impact social media has on the wine world.
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What Grapes Are Best in BC’s OTHER Regions?
It’s true, over 90% of the wine made in BC comes from the Okanagan. But other areas are starting to establish themselves in the quality department and not always with the usual grape varieties. We’ll take a look at the Fraser Valley, the Islands and more to find our what the emerging wine trends are in BC’s ‘other’ areas for wine production.
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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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THE UNDERAPPRECIATED: THE NEXT GRAPE STARS OF BC
All grape varieties seem to go through periods of popularity that eventually decline over time when consumers look to the new “hot” (or “cool” in the case of grape growing) thing.
What varieties do you think are currently underappreciated in BC? Are there varieties that used to be popular but now are not given their due? Are there varieties that some wineries have made very popular but the wine consumers have not yet discovered?
We live in a wine growing region that is still highly experimental and is always looking for that next “star variety” that will be both well-suited for grape growing, winemaking as well as appeal to customers. Tonight we will explore what some of these down trodden or yet-to-be-discovered varieties might be.
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