It’s summer time and the living is easy – and so should be your parties. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know we are huge fans – huge! – of easy, elegant entertaining. It simply doesn’t make any sense to throw a complex and arduous party. Nothing about that says fun....
Right now Erin is California and Courtney is in Spain. If you follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, you know that we’re having a pretty good time, and happily stuffing our faces as we waddle from winery to restaurant and back again. Such is the life of a travelling sommelier. No, we don’t expect...
Our dad is impossible to buy for. He loves golf, curling and baseball, but doesn’t really need another set of golf balls nor does he wear ball caps. And those gifts seem a little lacklustre, anyway. He does like theatre, but he travels at least once a month, so surprising him with tickets to a...
The other day we got a phone call from a woman who was tasked with organizing her corporate team’s staff party. She was calling us in desperation, saying she had spent a few weeks trying to organize it herself, but quickly found out planning a party for 100 people is hard. Really hard. Now, with...
By Erin The final leg of the Great Okanagan Adventure with Okanagan Wine Festivals had arrived. Waking up reasonably early (after sunrise), I celebrated this last day taking in the stunning Summerland scenery before the hustle and bustle of another jam-packed day of eating and drinking. Day 4 – Naramata & Penticton First stop: breakfast....
By Erin As Day 3 rolls around I was finally getting a little more adjusted to the time difference. Either that, or the massive quantities of food and wine I was consuming was working better than Real Housewives’ barbiturates for knocking me out at night. Day 3 – Similkameen & Summerland Today we woke up...
By Erin As you will remember from Day 1, we’ve got a lot to see, eat and drink and not a lot of time to do it in. As a guest of the Okanagan Wine Festivals, Erin was invited to spend a week discovering the Valley. So get your game face on, we’re tasting our...
by Erin It’s a crazy thing when you leave Ontario for the Okanagan in British Columbia. Being from Ontario I didn’t need a passport, but it sort of felt like I should have needed proper documents to clear customs. Okanagan is an entirely different world than Ontario. Or, at least different from Toronto, where I am...
Well, there was eating, too. by Erin I’ve recently returned home from the Okanagan, where I was a guest of the Okanagan Wine Festivals. It had been nine years (!!!) since I had last been out to visit BC’s beautiful wine country, and I have to say, it was almost like I had never been....
This Saturday Peter Bodnar Rod from 13th Street Winery in Niagara stops by WineTalk Radio to talk about outdoor entertaining and the best wines for everything from garden parties to dockside dining. Since 2008 13th Street Winery has welcomed visitors from near and far to their stunning wine boutique. With a focus on warm hospitality,...
