When I picked up a bottle of this week’s featured wine last March at a shop in southern Quebec (on my last trip out...

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many...

I didn’t plan on taking such a long break away from the Birds and Booze beat, but life got in the way the last...

I’m moving house at the end of this month, which provided a good opportunity for me to dig around my modest wine cellar –...

One of the nice things about winter finch irruptions is that they usually take place across two calendar years, allowing ardent listers to tick...

As uncertain as the future may be, I’m sure we’re all ready to bid farewell to the year 2020. And while we’re all looking...

This past Tuesday marked the centenary of the première of The Lark Ascending, a work for solo violin and orchestra by the English composer...

I originally reserved this week’s featured wine for a Hallowe’en review that I never got around to writing. The 2013 ‘Tyto alba’ from Companhia...