Wine Picks

Please try and have these wines in the recommended context. Wine pleasure is about a match of wine and mood.

Sip & Savour Ontario

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SIP & SAVOUR ONTARIO Taste a hundred local wines…and nosh on some great food! Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 The Distillery Historic District, Fermenting Cellar,…

Refreshing Cider

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Try something different this summer ““ refreshing cider. CLOS SAINT-DENIS 07 Dry Cider kicks in at 10 percent alcohol ““ a sipper. Refreshing apple…

Best Local Brut

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HENRY of PELHAM keeps inching its way closer to Champagne with its Brut ‘Cuvée Catharine’. Austere, and stony dry ““ almost no flavour but…

Summer Feeling

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The classic white of summer is DRY RIESLING ““ it oozes freshness. Niagara does well with this grape but I’m touting an Aussie edition…

CBC & Fuzion

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The CBC asked recently “why all this Fuzion?” CBC’s popular radio show, Q recently had a couple of my wine writing colleagues ““ John…

Tasting Malivoire Wines

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A few days ago I celebrated Martin Malivoire Day ““ my annual get together/tasting with the owner of one of Niagara’s top wineries (and…