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Fall for Local Spirits

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on September 9, 2021September 24, 2021

An increasing selection of small-batch spirits are available at BC Liquor Stores: in this in-store…

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Whisky Time Machine: Synthetically Aged Spirits

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on August 13, 2021September 24, 2021

“Whisky” in just two weeks? Mainland Distilling in Surrey, B.C., is accelerating their spirits game…

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Cruise & Booze: Vancouver Craft, by Water

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on July 6, 2021September 24, 2021

Visitors to Vancouver can criss-cross downtown’s False Creek neighbourhoods—and experience local craft distilleries along the…

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  • wine

Summer Stock: A Fresh Crop of Wines

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on July 4, 2021September 24, 2021

Food & Drink rounds up the hottest bottles, boxes and cans of summer 2021.

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  • cocktails

Hip to Sip: Summer Drinks Trends

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on July 1, 2021September 24, 2021

I edited this round-up of the hottest drinks trends of summer 2021 in Food &…

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Non-alcoholic Spirits: Canada’s Pioneers

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

In this feature for Canadian liquor-industry trade magazine Poured I look at one of the…

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The Netflix of Wine: Monthly Subscriptions

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

In Vitis B.C., my take on how new-generation wine subscription boxes are changing the wine-club…

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  • spirits

Gin-novation

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on May 5, 2021May 6, 2021

A summer’s worth of Ontario craft and international gins in the Early Summer LCBO Food…

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  • cocktails

Drunk History: Canadian Cocktails Edition

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on April 12, 2021July 21, 2024

Want to imbibe a Shaft or Sourtoe, B52 or Caibou, Bloody Caesar or Screech, or…

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New-generation hangover remedies: Do they work?

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021

From high-tech to natural, I tried seven of them for The Globe & Mail.

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  • wine

Wines For the Weather

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on March 8, 2021

Because spring can be both a lion and a lamb, consider these grape varietals that…

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Let Spring Be-Gin!

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

In BC Liquor Stores’ Taste magazine, I wrote about a fresh crop of spring gins…

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