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If I Could Buy Only One – May 26, 2018 VINTAGES Release
As part of our VINTAGES recap, we asked our critics: “If you could buy only one wine from this release – which one would it be and why?” Our picks from the May 26th VINTAGES release: John Szabo, MS: A red that checks all the right boxes this week is the {{PremiumStart}}2016 Kloof Street Red. There’s a lot […] More
John Szabo’s VINTAGES Preview – May 26th, 2018
Man-made wines; And the Best Sommelier in the Americas is… By John Szabo, MS, with notes by Sara d’Amato and Michael Godel Following last week’s assessment of women in the wine business by Sara, and a collection of excellent wines that happen to be made by women, this week we’ll cover the best of the […] More
VINTAGES Preview – May 26th, 2018
Women of Wine By Sara d’Amato with notes from Michael Godel and John Szabo, MS VINTAGES’ May 26th release celebrates women in winemaking across the globe. In the light of so many similar thematics relating to women with respect to tastings, competitions and events, one may begin to tire of this type of recognition, even […] 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.
