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Domaines Ott* Featured in Next Cellar Series Dinner at Provence Marinaside Join Provence Marinaside on Sunday April 5th for a rare opportunity to explore the exceptional wines of France’s Domaines Ott* in the restaurant’s second Cellar Series Dinner of 2026 featuring special guest Global Brand Ambassador Christophe Coppola Renard. Since 1896, four generations of the…

By Rick VanSickle Two of the rarest icewines ever made are adding to Canada’s reputation as the world leader with this sweet treat. Also in this Niagara Wine Report: Top bubbles and Pinot Noir from Henry of Pelham, plus smart buys coming to the LCBO from Peninsular Ridge. Niagara’s Pillitteri Estates Winery is the world’s…

A little-known wine region with prehistoric roots producing Bordeaux-style blends in Pomerol-type soils at incredible value I have a confession to make. I wasn’t sure I wanted to tell you about Pécharmant. For the past 30+ years I have been, to borrow the Gen Z parlance, gatekeeping, the magic of this little-known appellation in the…

With pork ribs Monday, February 16th: Dinner – pork ribs with a bottle of Trillium Cellars Cabernet Franc 2019. This wine is a collaboration between George Brown College and Niagara College Teaching Winery. The label was designed by Surzayon Ghosh. Tuesday, February 17th: Dinner: pasta with Wolf Blass Shiraz 2025. Wednesday, February 18th: Dinner: Grilled…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Azhadi Vineyards feels less like a winery and more like a cultural landmark. Inspired by Tehran’s iconic Freedom Tower, the four-storey structure rises above Kelowna’s McKinley area, just a 15-minute drive from Kelowna International Airport, with both Western elegance and Eastern soul. Crowned by a 19.5-metre observation tower and a traditional…

Tonight’s white wine review is the latest vintage of an excellent Premier Cru Chablis from Burgundy that arrived at the LCBO a couple of weeks ago in the February 7th LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection. It is produced by Domaine Yvon & Laurent Vocoret, a small, family-owned winery situated in the Chablis wine region of…

Earlier this week I was fortunate to attend the first-ever Canadian seminar and trade tasting of wines from Victoria, Australia. All of these wines were new to me and I was really looking forward to the experience. Wine Victoria brought its leading wineries to Canada, offering an exclusive look at one of the world’s most…

In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am going to include a new one that will appear from time to time.  I’m calling it, ‘From the Cellar’. It will be similar to the wine reviews, except that it will feature wines…

Here’s my top wine picks from the February 21, 2026 LCBO VINTAGES New Release Collection (digital edition here), where wines from the Southern Hemisphere are the feature story of the release. There are 86 products included in this release, with a relatively high number of recommended buys, all the while the number of sub-$20 wines…

This is a Vin de Pays wine, now known by the EU designation Indication Géographique Protégée (IGP), these are wines that either couldn’t or chose to not meet the rules of the Appellation, assuming they are in a region covered by an Appellation. You can get some good deals in this category, so with no research…