The best advice anyone can give you about which wines to serve for Christmas dinner is to get out and purchase them this weekend, before the pressure of Christmas Eve arrives and stocks are depleted and the store clerks are frazzled. This week we
Château Climens 2012 Vintage: Trying but unexpected! "Quod donare mora nequit annua, dat brevis hora" (It can happen in an hour that which does not happen in a year, what a difference a day makes! - a Latin proverb) At the very
Gismondi on Wine Our 2012 Top 100 by Anthony Gismondi and Stuart Tobe We taste thousands of wines a year including a large number of wines that are no longer available through traditional retail channels. This list is our top 100 picks that for the
Just in time for last minute frantic wine shopping comes our 40 wines under $40 list. You can take it to the bank when it comes to quality and value and you should be able to locate most of these wines in any decent size government liquor store. Remember
SPARKLING 88 Pellegrino Zebo Moscato N/V Sicily, Italy BC $15.00 A frizzante style with 6% alcohol. Nice fresh floral, peach, spicy, honey, red apple aromas. Crisp, juicy, fresh, somewhat sweet palate with good acidity. Pear,
It's a funny thing about sparkling wine; it never gets the respect accorded Champagne although most consumers would have a great deal of trouble distinguishing between the two in a blind tasting. It is hardly a knock on Champagne but rather a nod to the
Today's the day you promised to start your holiday shopping, so we are going to make things easy for you if you have any wine drinkers on your gift list. Since simplicity equals elegance, let's look at some useful, perhaps conservative, gift ideas for
Put away the still wine -- 'tis the season to celebrate. Whether it's an American sparkler, a cava from Spain, a German sekt or an Italian spumante, wine with effervescence is a universal symbol for good times. When it comes to sparkling wine, the good
Niagara Peninsula - Lake Erie North Shore - Pelee Island - Prince Edward County Conditions Weather conditions in winter and early spring 2012 were mild across southern Ontario and the wine growing regions. It was particularly warm in March and
With a little over three weeks to go to Christmas, it is time to get serious about laying some wines in for the holidays. It is already taking far too long to get across the city and the chaotic holiday traffic is only going to get worse. So, if you are
Jefferson Alvarez loves to travel. "Because then I can eat in a lot of different restaurants, try all the best places." He pauses, and smiles. "We get paid to cook, so you need to keep learning." Jefferson is executive chef at Fraîche,
2012 was not for the faint of heart. The season alternated between periods of stark contrasts, bringing anxiety, then hope, and requiring vigilance and hard work on the part of winemakers. After a mild month of March, cold rain in April delayed budding.
The holidays are just around the corner and for many, that means shopping lists long on names and short on gift ideas. Wine will not solve all your problems, but in a city full of wine and food aficionados, we can safely say the fermented beverage is
The black currant jelly alone was worth the price of admission. As were the foie gras sauce, beurre rouge with grains of paradise (one of the aromatics in fine gin, by the way), celeriac, salsify and pumpkin seed pesto. Just another night, to absent Phil
The final results from the 2012 Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards were released in Ottawa last week and the news for B.C. wineries was very upbeat. The national wine magazine ranks the country's top wineries each year based on their performance at the
WOODINVILLE, Wash. - Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, one of theworld's leading premium wine companies with estates in Washington, Oregon andCalifornia, today announced that it has completed its 2012 harvest, one of the mosthighly-regarded vintages in recent
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