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Michael Bartier Presents 2025 Crafted in BC Wines – Kurtis Kolt presents Top Drop 2025 THE SHOW Michael Bartier – Co-founder/Winemaker Bartier Bros (Black Sage Road) When I last talked to co-owner and winemaker Michael Bartier  at Bartier Bros on Black Sage Road,  South Okanagan, he had a total of 17 vineyards damaged due to 2...

Cowichan Spring Wine Pour  2025 You can your clock by it. The Cowichan Valley Wine Spring Wine Pour. Year 2025   The location may change from year to year, new faces may appear but one thing that’s always in the room is Cowichan Valley Pride!! The wine community all across the province is keeping a...

New releases, new labels, new sponsors.   Best Coast Distillers and Winemaker’s Cut/The Opera.     THE SHOW    Corey Wood/Cory Hastings – Best Coast Distillers  (North Saanich)   Best Coast Distillers have been really busy for the past couple of years. Planting necessary ingredients on their farm, building the distillery from the ground up, getting...

THE SHOW   Kathy Malone – Winemaker Hillside Winery If you haven’t already heard, April is BC Wine Month. Its also the month that we thank the four sponsors of Tasting Room Radio. When we started TRR the Summer of 2007, we made a pledge about the segment sponsors. If I’m going to talk about...

THE SHOW Kurtis Kolt – Wine Educator, Judge, Writer. (Vancouver) This is  a wild and crazy time in the wine business. As a result of the recent Winter cold snaps in the Okanagan, many vineyards were killed and what did survive offered up very small production possibilities. In order to survive, BC wineries were given...

Jason Parkes & Robbie Hundertmark – 12 Spring wines from Jason Parkes Customs/The Hatch (West Kelowna)   THE STORY   We welcome back – a dynamic duo. Jason Parkes is the founder of The Hatch in West Kelowna.  Labels include The Hatch, Black Swift Vineyards, Crown and Thieves. Each of those labels has a rapidly growing...

FREE SPIRIT VICTORIA –   non-alc.  zero-proof, alcohol free. A story of our times.   THE SHOW    For the first time under one roof in Victoria , importers will be joined by local BC makers from Vancouver Island, Vancouver, the Okanagan etc.,  to showcase the best alcohol-free wine, beer, spirits, and packaged cocktails available. Organized...

Hester Creek – The 2024 Columbia Valley Collection   Guests:  The Marks. Mark Sheridan – President Mark Hopley – Winemaker   It was only a matter of time before we all started to see the “out-of-province” wines of 2024. Due to 2 cold snaps, especially the Winter of early 24, BC, Wineries were given permission...

Co-Hosted with This is Wine School -Part Two of  2025 VanWineFest    THE SHOW    This is Wine School are founders, educators and award-winning sommeliers Jenna Brisco, Kelcie Jones and Maude Renaud-Brisson.  We gathered in a small circle of chairs, surrounded by many 100’s of wine trade attendees constantly on the move at the convention...