Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival

Wine Festival Vintners Brunch Food & Wine Smackdown: Lift Ascends

March 8, 2012

Most people know the Wine Festival’s Vintner’s Brunch as the festival’s flagship food and wine event. It usually sells out within minutes of tix being available—even more so now that it’s held in the dazzling surrounds of the new Convention Centre West, with its sweeping ocean-mountain vista. Few realize that beyond being a pretty nice [...]

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Tasting Diversity – Speed dating wine-style with some of Chile’s best

March 7, 2012

Another Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival done! But what an action packed week, with an amazing array of events, most of which went off without a hitch. Kudos to the tireless Playhouse team, to the legion of unsung volunteers who make this thing work, and especially to Wines of Chile, for truly raising the bar on [...]

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Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival Features Chile in 2012

April 13, 2011

We’re still scrambling to catch up on myriad Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival experiences (maybe it’s time to come up with a niftier handle?) that we’ll distill down and share in coming weeks. Out of 30,000 bottles, we figure did more than our share of tasting. The big news (and worst kept secret) announced at [...]

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Behind the Scenes at the Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival

April 26, 2010

On the judging panel at Vintners Brunch: a slam dunk winner! Every year one of the first Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival events to sell out is the Vintner’s Brunch, held on the final day. Lots of folks get a group together and buy a table, to sample tastes from some of the city’s leading chefs, [...]

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