We are excited to announce that we've taken a silver medal for our 2015 Sauvignette at this year's All Canadian Wine Championships! Thank-you to the ACWC and congratulations to all of the winners! To see all of the results, visit the ACWC online.We are proud and humbled to receive an honourable mention at the 2016 Vancouver Magazine Awards in the best Winery/Vineyard dining in BC category !Congratulations to all of this year's winners! For a full list of all of the awards, visit Vancouver Magazine Awards online!A Wine Wednesday feature on our Prosecco-style wine, Charmé de L'ile, by Anthony Gismondi for CISL 650AM Smooth and Easy radio station in Vancouver!  Follow the link below to order yours today - Shop Unsworth Vineyards' Charme de L'ile  A lovely list of Rosés for this Valentine's Day including our 2014 Unsworth Rosé from Anthony Gismondi and Treve Ring.See the full list of Treve's Top Rosé picks here.We are thrilled to have been awarded one of the Best Light White Wines of 2016 at the Vancouver Magazine Wine Awards for our 2014 Unsworth Vineyards Allegro white blend.

The much anticipated 2015 Allegro is slated for a Spring 2016 release.Read the full list of winners.An amazing article written by wine expert, Stuart Brown, in Victoria’s newest trending magazine atHome Victoria featuring Unsworth Vineyards!  Unsworth Vineyards We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Check out this article on 5 great reasons to visit Unsworth Vineyards – written by Hired Belly’s, Tim Pawsey. Thank you Tim, your visit was one we won’t forget. See you again soon!Petit Milo is a hybrid grape (one of the Blattners) specifically suited to our cool, maritime climate. Here, 21 grams/litre of residual sugar is gobbled up handily by racy acidity, buoyed by ripe pear, pink grapefruit, white peach and fine, pithy spice. Mid-sweet and pure fruited, this makes for a lovely aperitif with melon and prosciutto and sweetly fresh spot prawns. Tasted May 17, 2015The results are in, the All Canadian Wine Championships has awarded our 2014 Rosé a Double Gold!! We couldn’t be more excited to start the season off with such wonderful recognition, thank-you to everyone at the ACWC!

Congratulations to all of the winners! See full list of awards.There’s still lots of excitement left over from the 2015 tasting at Canada House in London England! wine for 60 guestsHere’s a list of Canadian wines you should probably try, written by wine journalist Jaime Goode, including a great plug for Unsworth’s Pinot Noir!wine to sleep betterJaime Goode’s Wine BlogWe are honoured and humbled to receive a Bronze Medal Award at the 2015 Vancouver Magazine Awards in the Vancouver Island Category!best wine to drink with red meatGold: Wolf in the FogSilver: The Pointe at the Wickaninnish InnBronze: Unsworth Vineyards RestaurantHonourable Mentions: Hudson’s on First, and SoBoCongratulations to all of the winners! best italian wine in india

The 5th edition of the Exceptional Eat Magazine Awards have been announced – and Unsworth Vineyards Pinot Noir has been voted people’s choice! best white wine for holiday partyThe Unsworth Restaurant also received Runner-up as a Great restaurant to visit (outside of Victoria) that’s worth a special trip. best wine west villageThank-you to all of the voters, Eat Magazine readers, and supporters of Unsworth Vineyards. We’re thrilled and humbled.You can find all of the winners of the Exceptional Eats Awards in the March/April 2015 edition of Eat Magazine.Unsworth walks the fine line between delicate and fresh but with the substance and mouth-filling textures we crave in our pinot noir. Strawberries, watermelon and raspberries tangle with a cool savoury, mushroom underside to keep it real. Naturally vibrant and silky finish.

Pair with fresh salmon. 88/100Read more reviews by Anthony GismondiIt’s Christmas – forget buying boring presents for your wine loving friends – Drew and Conrad from The Wine Wankers have rolled out their annual Christmas Gift Guide full of quirky must haves for this festive season.  Let us know in the comment section which present you’d like to see under your tree on December 25 (psst, Santa – Drew really, really wants the Plum Wine Fridge!) And you can check out last year’s list here! The Champagne Bong: Maybe I’m too Australian – but I have to applaud anything that combines drinking champagne with sucking back on a bong.  I give you the Chambong.  The Chambong is a device used for the rapid and enhanced consumption of sparkling wine and Champagne.  If you’re more the laid back drinker (as opposed to the champagne lay backs kinda drinker), you probably want to savour your fine wine with the more refined Wine Sipper.  Drink straight from the bottle – classy-like: With the Guzzle Buddy it’s now socially acceptable to drink directly from the bottle! 

This present is crap: Because nothing says I love you more than giving that special someone in your life toilet paper that smells like mulled wine.  Thanks Tesco, I think!  Beer advent calendar: What do people in the wine industry drink when they’re exhausted?  Your prayers have been answered, a Christmas Beer Advent Calendar.  24 craft beers, 18 different beer styles, 17 nationalities on 3 continents.  It weighs 22kgs – so probably not a good present to get air freighted outside of Europe.  Socks!: Because every mum/mom needs a wine at the end of a shit day!  Hello Kitty Wine:– more like hello sell out, but who cares, it’s Christmas!  Definitely not suited for children.  Sanrio, the masterminds behind Japan’s much loved Kitty (which we now understand is not even a cat), have partnered with Torti Winery in Italy to hand-pick grapes for a Hello Kitty rosé, sparkling Hello Kitty white wine and must have human flavour catnips.  Cut your wine consumption in half! 

I’m a glass half full kinda guy.  For the optimist in your life….. A corker of an idea: the Champagne cork cooler.  Donald Trump Wine Pourer?:  We discovered these very cool wine pourers/aerators when we were in Texas –while the Zombie looks spookily like Donald Trump – for the festive wine aficionados, there is also a Santa Claus!  Made from stainless steel. A wine fridge that only holds two bottles and costs $1500!  What I’m not telling you is how genius the Plum Wine Fridge is – using the power of the internet, it automatically serves the wine in side at exactly the right temperature.  There are cameras inside each of the wine-bottle chambers. Once you insert a bottle of wine, the cameras scan the label and upload it to Plum’s database. After about 30 seconds, the 7-inch touchscreen on the front of the fridge tells you exactly which wine you’ve loaded up. From there, Plum will adjust each of the wine chambers to the proper temperature for the bottle you’ve put in.

Each compartment is totally sealed off from the other, so you can chill a white wine while slightly cooling a red at the same time. Plum can recognize 220 different varietals of wine and adjust to the optimal serving temperature for whichever bottle you have. There’s also an intriguing internal setup that lets you pop in a bottle of wine and have it stay fresh for about 90 days, once opened (the same kind of technology behind Coravin).  Watch this video and tell me you cannot live without one!  Rude wine stopper: I wonder why this wine tastes like banana?  Wine Condom:  Off wine – no thank you.  Roll a wine condom over your Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s shaft, I mean neck. And unlike real condoms – these are reusable; just give them a good rinse out first (ewww, gross)!   The watermelon keg:  Every backyard will need a Watermelon Keg Tapping Kit this summer.  The kit enables various fruits (watermelons, pumpkins, pineapples, rockmelons etc) to be easily transformed into a one-of-a-kind drink-dispensing keg. 

Imagine filling this baby with a watermelon frosé. Custom made wine aprons: We got a Wine Wanker apron made up.  What will you create?  Or if you’re in a rush, Vinotopia has a selection of pre-made winelover aprons ready to roll.  Retro wine coolers: Because these days, a cheap plastic cooler or a garbage can just won’t cut it when chilling your wines for a backyard BBQ.  These fun and colourful wine coolers/sculptures are made out of upcycled 44 gallon oil drums, handmade in Vietnam and designed in Australia.   Bicycle wine carrier: If you’re like me, you HAVE stacked your bike while riding to a friend’s place with a bottle of wine in your hand.  Drinking and riding a bike with one hand is not a recommended activity!   Stack no more with this leather bicycle wine carrier.  Boozy tea cups: These stacking tea cups are a great idea for the office, except your co-workers might think you’ve got a drinking problem!  Wine made in 1880:  Seriously – I cannot believe you can still buy a wine from 1880! 

It’s expensive at AU$2,400 – but this wine is from 18 freakin 80!  Seppeltsfield 1880 Para Vintage Tawny 100ml is the oldest wine still being sold commercially, anywhere in the world.  Wine teeth stain remover: Because black teeth never impressed ANYONE on a first date.  Unwined wine stained teeth remover.  Tipsy wine glasses:  you’re not drunk, you’ve just been drinking weed infused wine!  Mini-bar cocktails:  Finally – you can get actual bar-tender-strength cocktails in your hotel’s mini-bar.  If you’re like me and travel a lot, hotel mini bars never have anything exciting to drink in them.  That was until now.  In Australia, and soon to explode around the world (we hope), the 60ml serving sized bottles include Negroni, The Bittered Sling, Gin Martini, Vodka Martini, Espresson Martini, Manhattan and many more.  And because these are bartender strength and made with pure spirits, the cocktails average 35-40% a/v.  These aren’t for sale tio the general public, but are available in Hotel mini-bars.