This whisky is the culmination of a unique collaboration between Victoria BC’s Macaloney’s and Sidney-based Cascadia Seaweed. The seaweed or sugar kelp, is grown sustainably at 8 different places around Vancouver Island – with 7 different First Nations involved in the farms. Seaweed has lon...
© AFP | Could pawn shops be a viable place to cash in your fine wine? I haven’t given much thought to pawn-shop wine until now. When I think of pawn shops, I think of desperate sellers, shady buyers, and the guns, guitars and watches I saw when I used to visit pawn shops ...
We also discovered a new bistro to try on another visit to the Island: Artisan Bistro in Broadmead Village, which is on the outskirts of Victoria. We are big fans of Vancouver Island and the capital city, Victoria with its colourful gardens, cheerful water taxis ferrying people around the h...
In reflecting upon our visit to Angelos and his comments about the rewarding nature of his work, I wonder if this is the portrait of a happy man: working in a business alongside his family, in a beautiful rural setting, learning new skills, feeling he is making progress, being his own b...
Not Much Cheer at the Local Off-Licence News Analysis: 300 Shops, 1,500 Jobs Axed as Victoria Wine and Thresher Link to Fight SupermarketsUP TO 300 off-licences are to close with the loss of 1,500 jobs following the confirmation yesterday that Allied Domecq and Whitbread are merging their ...
Toast of the Town Dry for Years, Now Wheaton Raises a Glass to Wine ShopsByline: Victoria Pierce Daily Herald Staff Writer Twenty years ago, few Wheaton residents...Pierce, Victoria