Somewhere around the second week of November, the emails start. Can you put our company name on a bottle? What do I get the person who has everythi...

Last week Mike and I went out for lunch, nothing fancy, just an hour to catch up before he heads overseas for a few weeks. We were talking about no...

Every parent knows the drill. The kids come home on Halloween night with a pillowcase that weighs more than they do, dump it on the kitchen floor, ...

By Richard, winemaker at Traynor Family Vineyard. The estate is picked. Sometime in the last two weeks, depending on which row you were standing in...

By Mike Traynor, with our winemaker Richard. Canadian Thanksgiving lands on Monday, October 12 this year, which means somewhere around the first we...

Cloudy, fizzy, half-finished and still fermenting in the cup. Sturm is the wine Austrians drink for a few weeks every autumn and almost nobody in Canada has tried. Here is what it is, why it cannot be shipped, and when you can get ours.

PSL Pumpkin Wine is our fortified pumpkin spice wine — real Ontario pumpkins, pumpkin-pie spices, 18%. Here's what it tastes like, how to drink it, and where to get it.

Vermouth is aromatized fortified wine — real wine, dressed up with botanicals and fortified with spirit. Canada makes some of the best in the world. Here's how it's made, how to actually drink it, and why our Madonna and Haberdasher aren't at the LCBO.

Natural wine, raw wine, conventional wine — three overlapping categories that mean different things depending on who's talking. Here's what each label actually says about what's in the bottle, what's allowed under each, and where Traynor sits on the spectrum.