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A glorious choucroute needs Gewürz to match

By Jurgen Gothe
There’s something about the spicy, floral grape that really hits the spot with this slow-cooked garnished sauerkraut dish. Here's a shopping list of eight recent tastes to get you started.
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Pledge allegiance to the United Nations of vodka

By Jurgen Gothe
This week Jurgen Gothe samples vodkas straight, peared, mangoed, mapled, açai’d, citroned, and moonlit from Greenland, Sweden, the U.S., the Netherlands, Canada, and Vietnam.
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Viognier tames brash Shiraz with pizzazz

By Jurgen Gothe
Red wines blended with white Viognier now number 10 in the B.C. catalogue and have become a summertime favourite this season. Jurgen Gothe samples six bottles and rates them by flavour and value.
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Bundles of Chardonnay joy have arrived in town

By Jurgen Gothe
Dozens of new Chardonnays arrive in stores each year and our thirst for the tasty white grape knows no limits. Jurgen Gothe rates a batch of newcomers from Australia, B.C., California, and Chile.
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Cono Sur? Connoisseur? It’s just a Chile sip away

By Jurgen Gothe
If you buy one of each from this Chilean producer's portfolio of seven wines available in B.C, you will have barely spent $85 and will have a terrific wine-tasting, food-matching adventure ahead of you.
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Get Chardonnay bang for a way smaller buck

By Jurgen Gothe
Jurgen Gothe took price as the prime consideration and tasted both the cheapest and most expensive wines. His conclusion: go for the $8.49 bottle.
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Killer Brazilian cocktails shake up the afternoon

By Jurgen Gothe
It's love at first taste for two specialty white spirits now found in B.C. liquor stores. Enjoy these simple recipes for sugar-cane juiced caipirinhas and mojitos that will quickly become your favourite summer sippers.
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Chardonnay paves the way for summer sips

By Jurgen Gothe
Here's a few Extreme Chardonnays: the cheapest, the costliest, the sticky sweet, and the ultra-dry. Take your pick, says Jurgen Gothe, there’s something for every taste and every wallet of the world's preferred white wine.
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Vodka stays the world's favourite white spirit

By Jurgen Gothe
Summer seems to be the season for vodka, with more than 100 types flowing through government stores. Jurgen Gothe sips through some of the latest, including “the world’s first eco-friendly luxury vodka”.
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Going boldly into Okanagan where blends mix and mingle

By Jurgen Gothe
Quite a few of the world’s best substances are the result of good blending: tea, perfume, and wine. Here are a few from the wine valley in our own provincial back yard for you to sip and savour.
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Find the right mood music to accompany your wine

By Jurgen Gothe
Syrah gets Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma”, Cabernet Sauvignon sits well with the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women”, and Merlot goes with everything from Lionel Richie to Otis Redding, according to a new study.
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Barbecue vintages put on their best behaviour

By Jurgen Gothe
Last week’s lot was cheap and cheerful; this week’s raises the bar a bit. There’s nothing here under $20, for all those capitalized Barbecue Situations. As always, prices—and vintages—were correct at the time of acquisition. The government adjusts these monthly.
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Robust barbecue reds jockey for grillmarks

By Jurgen Gothe
The mercury is rising at last so it's time to fire up those barbecues. Jurgen Gothe sifts through the new reds and finds wines for burgers, short ribs, applewood-smoked Cheddar, or perfect Portuguese grilled sardines.
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A fruit bowl full of fine summer wines

By Jurgen Gothe
Fruit wines often don’t get the respect they should, but when you add a skilled winemaker to the equation, there are endless palate delights you can savour from stuff that isn’t Vitis vinifera.
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This spring's sipping is love at first white

By Jurgen Gothe
Jurgen Gothe's sifts through some heady and fruity Sauvignon Blancs, a delicately balanced Riesling, and an unusual Gewürztraminer that had a hint of salwater taffy in his quest for the best new whites.
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Chardonnays to bring out the sunshine

By Jurgen Gothe
The first in a two-part toast to late spring with recently arrived white wines from around the globe gets your tastebuds ready with Chardonnay, the world’s favourite white wine.
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Wild Goose Winery a big winner this spring

By Jurgen Gothe
Six cheers for our own Wild Geese!
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Another batch of new wines ripe for picking

By Jurgen Gothe
Following in the lees of a column a couple of weeks back, here are more newcomers that can be found on local shelves.
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Israel is about to swing open with surprises

By Jurgen Gothe
This weekend’s wine fest is a must-attend event that will put many old stereotypes to rest with head-turning new offerings
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Wines spring up: fresh, fruity, and scrubby, too

By Jurgen Gothe
Not a week goes by without a clutch of new wines appearing, especially at this time of year. Sometimes they’re new vintages of old favourites. Sometimes they’re brand-new names and labels—fledgling wineries that are sending their first offerings out into a crowded and discerning market. Sometimes they’re wines that have been renamed, repackaged, rebranded.
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Rare Rieslings are within reach at Fuel

By Jurgen Gothe
Step in the front door at 1944 West 4th Avenue and you enter the Riesling shrine. All right, that doesn’t do justice to the work of one of the city’s great chefs, but we’ll get to that later.
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Wine touring in the Okanagan Valley

By Jurgen Gothe
With four annual wine festivals and nearly 200 wineries in the region, the first thing you need for a tour is a big car to cart home boxes full of wine.
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Shiraz shines in a basket of Lehmanns

By Jurgen Gothe
Australians know a thing or two about Shiraz. The five available in B.C. from the Lehmann portfolio are all excellent, and come decorated with big awards and accolades.
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Many Merlots made a Mayne Island event merry

By Jurgen Gothe
You should have been there.
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You say gris, I say grigio, now let’s sip Pinot

By Jurgen Gothe
However you say it, new Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio wines make grey grand, so now’s the time to pour your way through a PG tour
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