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Author Archives: Sandra Oldfield
BCWineChat Turns Four Months Old
Some of you may know that I began BCWineChat on Twitter at the end of December 2011. My hope was to find an open forum for BC wine consumers, BC wineries, retailers and restauranteurs to meet, once a week to … Continue reading
Posted in Grapes and Wine, Social Media
Tagged BC, BCWine, BCWineChat, chat, consumer, food pairing, restaurant, wine, wine laws, wine retailer
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Get Yer Grabber Thingy
Posted in Eco Sustainability, Personal Sandra
Tagged cleanup, Daughter, fish, garbage, imovie, MGO productions, okanagan, Oliver, river, trash
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Agriculture Water not an Essential Service?
>>UPDATE: April 9, 2012 the water flowed!! << Let’s start with some facts: We grow grapes We live in a desert–less than 10 inches average of precipitation per year Grapes need a minimum of 20 inches of precipitation minimum to … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Grapes and Wine, TInhorn Creek
Tagged essential service, farmer, Grapes, irrigation, vines, vineyards, water
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Social Media for Businesses
I’m sure in the late 1800’s when the telephone was invented and was finding its way into homes and businesses, there were some people who did not see a need for it. No doubt there were those who said “Why … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media, TInhorn Creek
Tagged business, customer, facebook, telephone, twitter
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Moon Musings
I just pulled into the hotel in Leavenworth, Washington after a long drive down to California to attend Ralph Kunkee’s memorial service at UC Davis. It was a 16-hour straight shot drive down, 33 hours in Davis, then 13 hours … Continue reading
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway … Continue reading
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BCWineChat is Born
A spirited conversation on twitter last week about sub appellations in the British Columbia wine industry was the kick off for a new one hour weekly chat on twitter called BCWineChat. The chat, hosted under the twitter hashtag #BCWineChat, is held … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Grapes and Wine, TInhorn Creek
Tagged BC, BCWineChat, British Columbia, canada, Canadian, chat, CoverItLive, Grapes, restaurants, retailer, vineyard, wine, winegrapes, winery
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2012 Concert Series Finalized
The bands for the 2012 Canadian Concert Series have been finalized this week and it should be quite a rip-roaring time to be had by all. The bands are all from right here in British Columbia. Here’s a taste of each … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, TInhorn Creek
Tagged acres of lions, canada, Canadian, concert, concert series, dancing, redeye empire, said the whale, the boom booms, Tinhorn, Tinhorn Creek, wine
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The Case for Canada’s Sustainable Wine Industry
For years I have been hearing wine writers and others say that unless Canadian wines are sold in the UK or the US we will never become a well-known industry. Unless our wines are reviewed by the heavy hitters of the wine world … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Eco Sustainability, Grapes and Wine
Tagged canada, consumption, export, production, sustainability, wine
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Close to Home
I returned home from the grocery store and decided to head right back out with my camera. The snow had fallen two nights ago and I knew I did not have to venture too far off our hill to take … Continue reading
Posted in Eco Sustainability, Local, TInhorn Creek
Tagged antelope bush, haystack, land conservancy of BC, ponderosa pine, poplars, smooth sumac, snow, south okanagan, Tinhorn Creek
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Stillness Between the Seasons
There is a time in the Okanagan Valley where the calendar says it is Fall but we’ve had our first taste of winter. Some leaves remain on the trees but many more join new skiffs of snow on the ground. We … Continue reading
Posted in Grapes and Wine, Local
Tagged BC, British Columbia, fall, Grapes, horse, kerner, okanagan, Orchard, snow, south okanagan, vineyard, winter
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A Great Man Died Today
Typing through tears is not one of my strongest suits, but I’ll give it a shot. Ralph Kunkee died today. I’m fairly sure that not many of you met him. He was a Professor Emeritus of Enology (winemaking) at the … Continue reading
Posted in Grapes and Wine
Tagged hospice, jagermeister, malolactic, ralph kunkee, science, uc davis, ucd, wine
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The Rhythm of Vintage 2011
The grape harvest just wrapped up for us in the southern Okanagan Valley, and it was unlike any I have seen in 18 years making wine here. I visualize vintages as a year of weather reflected in the finished glass … Continue reading
Posted in Grapes and Wine
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Wine Marketing for Dummies
In the past few years it seems that some winery’s marketing plans read like this: Make everything in tiny lots that are hard to find (or at least tell the public you only made a small amount) Charge a healthy … Continue reading
Dance this Mess Around
I am looking for your ideas for a band for our end of season concert next year (September 2012). If you have been to our concerts before then I do not need to explain to you how seriously fun they … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, TInhorn Creek
Tagged bands, canada, Canadian, concert, dance, music, Tinhorn Creek
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I Miss You Already SOSS
Our high school burned down this morning. My husband woke me a bit before 5AM and told me it was ablaze. I jumped out of bed, went to the window and 4 kms away seemed like next door. The flames … Continue reading
Posted in Local
Tagged Auditorium, community, Daughter, Elementary School, Fire, High School, Oliver, SOSS, Venables
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Up a Tree
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree… Yes, I have a thing for looking up a tree. All around the world. Whenever I think of it. Hanoi, VietNam
Posted in Travel
Tagged Annapolis Royal, Bay of Fundy, BC, ca, canada, france, hanoi, italy, keremeos, New Brunswick, nova scotia, paris, penticton, San Francisco, santa rosa, ste. michelle, tree, trees, Vancouver, vaseaux lake, vietnam, washington dc, Washington state, white house, wolfville
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Bucket List of Future Wanderings
How can you have a bucket list of places to travel to if you haven’t been to them before? Over the years, little seeds have been planted in my head of the places I’d like to visit before I die. … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged bucket list, chicago, iceland, irelnad, laos, maldives, new york city, normandy, northwest territories, peru, prague, st. petersburg, travel, turkey, vietnam, yukon
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About Adoption
What can be written about adoption that hasn’t already been written? They are always such personal narratives and each unique. My story is not unlike many others but it is mine and has helped to make me who I am … Continue reading
Oldfield's Wanderings 