Craig Pinhey

Nova Scotia wine has gained status recently. Our fine sparkling wines and the Tidal Bay appellation white blends have piqued interest countrywide and Gaspereau’s rieslings have impressed writers across Canada. Add to this the recent move towards opening the border to interprovinical shipping, and the industry has the potential to grow to levels never seen […]

If you’re going to have a great beer party, you have to serve great beer and invite great beer guests. The sixth annual Halifax Seaport Beerfest is fast approaching, and Canadian beer author Stephen Beaumont will help make it a memorable occasion—appearing at the festival and hosting the Rare Beer Dinner at Brussels Restaurant on […]

The Atlantic wine scene is growing healthily, as you’ll see when the Atlantic Canada Wine Symposium comes to town. The theme is “rising tide,” as in “a rising tide raises all boats,” which may seem cliche, given the region and city we’re talking about, but there’s more to this than the obvious Maritime link. While […]

Nova Scotia has had a commercial wine industry since the late ’70s, early ’80s when Roger Dial opened the original Grand Pré and created some head-turning, palate pleasing wines that surprised the rest of Canada. But the industry didn’t exactly explode after that. Recently, though, the fuse seems to be have been relit and, if […]

After years of complaints by educated wine consumers about the illogical illegality of buying booze from out of province, the lobbying efforts of wineries, the media, a nifty website called freemygrapes.ca and several wine-loving Western politicians are starting to be noticed by average Canadians. And this is making some folks at the provincial liquor boards […]