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Crush at Cornucopia

Definitions of Crush: 1. To extract or obtain (juice) by pressing or squeezing (grapes). 2. a great crowd. 3. (slang) an object of one’s affection. 4. Cornucopia’s gala tasting event. After a…

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Posted by: Degan Beley on Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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Cornucopia; the Sessions

Cornucopia is billed as Whistler’s celebration of wine and food and while there was certainly some celebrating happening in the tradional style, at parties (more on that later this week), there was also some…

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Posted by: Degan Beley on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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YVR Wine Night

An event almost passed through my twitter feed without me noticing last week but luckily it didn’t completely pass me by. The evening was hosted by “Vancouver’s most passionate wine bloggers & sommeliers”…

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Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, November 16th, 2009
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r.TL

A read through the comments on the Foodists post To Review or Not Review will reveal an interesting discourse on the notion that today’s restaurant cannot afford to ignore the online world. What’s said…

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Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, May 8th, 2009
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Refined Retreat on Granville Street

Once, when I first moved back to Vancouver, I went on a date to the Sugar Refinery. A boy and I sat on a purple couch and talked about rap music while hipsters posed around us. Both the boy and the venue were unmemorable,…

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Posted by: Degan Beley on Sunday, April 26th, 2009
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Vancouver Wine List Woes

In wine-producing regions around the world, wine is accessible: celebrated in daily life and shared often with family and friends. Why, oh, why is this not the case in Vancouver?

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Posted by: Karen Hamilton on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
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Wine Flavour Visualization

Recently I’ve been researching data visualization design for a project about our exposure to consumer brands and came across this website that explores the various tasting notes commonly associated with different…

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Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 17th, 2009
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