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Our Annual Gift Guide – December 14th, 2018
Wine Gifts for the Stocking, the Hosts & Someone Special By David Lawrason, with notes from John Szabo, Sara d’Amato, Michael Godel & Steve Thurlow Last year we rolled out what proved to be a very popular gift guide wherein we five critics picked wines for three gifting scenarios named above. This year however we […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (December 2018)
Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO Holiday Gifts and Discounts @ LCBO; updates to Top 50 by Steve Thurlow There are many wines for drinking and dining discounted this month on the Top 50 Best Values List. Some will make admirable gifts for under the […] More
If I Could Buy Only One – Dec 8th, 2018 VINTAGES Release
For the Dec 8th VINTAGES release, we asked: “If you could buy only one wine from this release – which one would it be and why?” Michael Godel: Talk about benchmark, here is your guide to Ontario’s most prominent, knowable and classically styled sparkling wine. The Henry Of Pelham 2013 Cuvée Catharine Carte Blanche Estate Blanc […] More
National Wine Awards of Canada
Discover Canada's best wines! In 2016, 22 judges tasted 1,535 wines from 230 wineries across the country to identify Canada's top wines.
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World Wine Awards of Canada
Seventeen judges tasted 1,000 wines in 21 categories in 2015 to find the world's best wines sold in Canada under $50.
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Port is a Portuguese, fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet red wine, but also comes in dry, semi-dry and white varieties. It is often served as a dessert wine. Wines in the style of port are produced around the world in several countries, but under European Union guidelines, only the product from Portugal may be labelled as Port. There are many styles of ports, divided into two major families: rubys (which includes vintage and late bottled vintage ports) and tawnys (including the single-vintage colheitas). Vintage ports, which are bottled young in only the best years, when a vintage declaration is allowed by the consortium overseeing the production of port, fetch the highest prices and can age for decades if not centuries. A Tawny Port is made from a red Port wine that has matured in wooden barrels, whose permeability allows a small amount of exposure to oxygen, and experience what is known as "oxidative" aging. If red grapes are used, in time the red colour lightens to a tawny colour - these are known as Tawny (or sometimes Wood) ports. They also lose volume to evaporation, leaving behind a wine that is slightly more viscous and intense.
