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This Gal Just Wants to Have Fun … Seriously!

By Lidija Biro DipWSET / 11th December 2023

Drinking wine is fun but making wine is serious business. Somehow, Yvonne Irvine manages to do both. Yvonne is a busy winemaker at two Niagara wineries – Creekside Estate Winery and Queenston Mile Vineyard – where she works collaboratively with head winemaker and mentor Rob Power in all aspects of wine production. There, Yvonne produces…

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Canadian Bubbly, eh?

By Lidija Biro DipWSET / 9th March 2023

Canada is at once large and small. If travelling along the Trans Canada Highway across the breadth of the country, east to west, you would cover 4,860 miles or 7,821 km. But it is also small when viewed in terms of the total global wine production volume (26.7 billion litres) where Canada represents only 0.3%…

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