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Here are my top wine picks from the June 7, 2025 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection (flipbook here). Like the first release last June, this release focuses on Rosé wines. It is not a big release with only 78 products offered. However, just over one-third of the wines are on the recommended list, and all…

Tonight’s white wine review is a sustainable, vegan, off-dry, and delicious Pinot Grigio that was crafted with some skin contact to give the wine its pretty copper-orange-pinkish colour. This white wine arrived at the LCBO a couple of weeks ago in the May 24 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection as part of the feature on…

We had this one at the Keg. Since the ban on the Californian wines started the Keg seems to have been very slow to expand their selection of wines. Luckily this one was on the list, $33.50 at the winery, or $56 at the Keg, so not a horrible markup. Dark in color with nice…

Our private outdoor space at Hotel Mas d’en Bruno Saturday, May 17th: Deborah and I took an overnight flight to London on British Airways. We are staying at the house of an old friend in Kentish Town. Monday, May 19th: Met up with old friends Joanne and David for lunch at Rabbit, a farm-to-fork restaurant…

I use to love the Henry of Pelham Short Hills Bench chard, and then it disappeared. Speaking at the Ontario Wine Show to the Pelham rep there she explained to me they have renamed the wine and reduced the price. I like my Chards oaky, where they pair beautifully, to my tastes, with scallops and…

Discover how this borderland DOC is creating some of Europe’s most expressive and cellar-worthy white wines Tucked into Italy’s far northeast, along the Slovenian border and at the foothills of the Julian Alps, Collio DOC is one of the country’s best-kept secrets in white wine. And not by design — over 85 percent of its…

DOC SICILIA ASSURES ITSELF AS THE MAIN ACTOR ON THE INTERNATIONAL WINE STAGE With a tight program, the Consorzio di Tutela DOC Sicilia is intensifying its promotional activities in Canada,the USA and the United Kingdom between April and May After receiving major international awards at the beginning of the year, the Consorzio di Tutela Vini…

By Rick VanSickle It might be hard to believe that Niagara’s King and Victoria Winery only opened its doors is 2023 … after all, the groundwork was laid over two decades ago. Also in this Ontario Wine Report: VQA approves long list of new grapes, including Roussanne, plus photos of Brock’s CCOVI Awards of Excellence.…

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