Wine Tasting at the Salt Building

It was a dream realized to finally enter the newly restored Salt Building in the Olympic Village after watching its $10 million renovation for the past five years. [...]

Wine Bloggers Conference 2011: Location, Location

I’ll tell you about the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia by starting at the very end. It was noon on Sunday, July 24th, the moment we British Columbians had been waiting for. [...]

The Raptors at Church and State Winery

By the time we’d arrived at Church and State Winery, the raptors were already in flight. As we settled into the bleachers, Athena the Gyr/Saker Falcon was dive bombing a meat-encrusted toy-on-a leach thrown in the air by handler Robyn Radcliffe, and she then landed to feast on it. [...]