Are you getting your daily serving of wine?
I know you are about to scream at your screen. Not another column about the health benefits of drinking wine. Delete. Wait, hear me out. Related: A wine prescription for cold and flu and Feeling under...
View ArticleTelmo's Spanish dream
Telmo Rodríguez the company is a small wine producer fashioning meager quantities from more DOs (and DOCAs) than can fit into a 620 x 400 jpeg. Telmo Rodríguez the man finds himself at the 20th...
View ArticleWine experts Brock and roll, Brock on
Part two: 25th anniversary of the Cuvée 2014 Expert’s Tasting at Brock University Flights three, four and five: Pinot Noir, Red Blends and Wine Options. Related – When experts break wine together The...
View ArticleWhen experts break wine together
With frozen Pond Inlet at Brock University as the backdrop to the 25th anniversary of the Cuvée 2014 Expert's Tasting, 160 industry professionals gathered to break wine together. The original congress...
View ArticleWinter white out wine, beer and food conditions
The winter that never ends. White out conditions, snow squalls, wind advisory and chill warnings. Everything just feels heavy. The OPP's request? Just stay home, Ontario. Prepare for the worst, hunker...
View ArticleGodello's excellent Cuvée adventure
Doesn't every local wine writer's pilgrimage begin this way? There's 130 kilometres to Niagara Falls, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes (not really - the only thing we smoke is...
View ArticleBottles, barrels, tanks and a vertical
Listening to Flat Rock Cellars' winemaker Jay Johnston rattle off the numbers and particulars of his 2013 Pinot Noir harvest you can't help but survey the odds of something preternatural. Vintage...
View ArticleMarch grape madness
Choosing wines from a wall of brace and girder filled options presents as much a degree of difficulty as picking winners from an NCAA March Madness bracket. When it comes to teenage basketball, do you...
View ArticleOn a wine and a prayer
We're going to begin the last week of March with a quartet of white wines as a prayer for the hopes of warmer weather. A bottle full of fresh and sprite grapes to be brought into the temple as a gift...
View ArticleThe death of wine scores?
Not so fast. As time goes by, I am hearing less comments like, “well that one got a 95,” and “that one is better value because it got a 90.” Wine ratings may increasingly becoming maligned and less...
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