Wine features and columns available to editors Cinda Chavich has been writing about wine and spirits for more than 15 years and has traveled to many wine regions of the world, from Bordeaux and Burgundy, to Napa, Sonoma, Rheingau, Baden, Canada's Niagara Penninsula and Okanagan Valley, Washington State and Champagne. She has covere d major wine events and interviewed owners and winemakers from such prestigious properties as Chateau Petrus andVilla Antinori , Wolf Blass and Robert Mondavi. Cinda has a wide range of contacts in the wine business in Canada and abroad and writes wine features regularly for Wine Access and Avenue magazines. Please contact her. Canadian Women Make Wine: Talking to Canadian women winemakers about their passions, their palates, their style, their challenges and the fine wine they make. (1,000 words) Native Fruit: In the southern Okanagan Valley of B.C., a Native band has been growing top vinifera grapes for more than 20 years, and now they're making their own fine wine. (1,875 or 738 words) Other topics Cinda has covered in wine columns (including many of the properties she has visited and owner/winemakers she has interviewed): Privatization in the liquor system in Alberta Canadian Wine Coverage of the annual Banff Food and Wine Festival, Banff Springs Hotel Interview with George Riedel Beaujolais Nouveau Champagne Chartreuse Clones Foreign investment in Chile Ice Wine Wine and Cheese German Wine How to Taste Wine Port Pruning with Michelle Oltman of Robert Mondavi Rosé wine Rhone/ Chateauneuf-du-Pape Riesling Tempranillo Sommelier School Spanish Wines Single Malt Scotch Viognier Beni Di Batasiolo (Piedmont) Benziger Family Winery (Glen Ellen, California) Beringer Vineyards (California) Bonny Doon (California) BRL Hardy/ Domaine de la Baume (Languedoc) Casa Lapostolle (Chile) Chateau d'Angludet (Bordeaux) Chateau Palmer (Bordeaux) Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte (Bordeaux) Vina Choncha y Toro (Chile) Concannon Winery (California) Cono Sur (Chile) Etchart (Argentina) Inniskillen (Niagara and Okanagan) Fortant de France (Languedoc) Grover Vineyards (India) New York producers Penfolds (Australia) Joseph Phelps Maison Joseph Drouhin (Burgundy) Pomino/ Marchesi de' Frescobaldi (Tuscany) San Felice (Chianti Classico) Sella & Mosca (Sardinia) Pierre Sparr (Alsace) Guy Saget (Loire, France) Wolf Blass (Australia) top of page