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Top Values at the LCBO (January 2020)
Wines Join the Top 50 List Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO by Steve Thurlow It’s a new year and for an “economical” January, I have some great buys to tell you about with many wines discounted at the LCBO. Plus, I have been busy […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES January 11th, 2020
By John Szabo MS, with picks from Sara, David, and Michael Welcome to the roaring 20s! The new decade brings more potential changes to Ontario’s outdated alcohol laws. If passed, The Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019 will eliminate up to 80 “unnecessary or outdated rules and streamline regulations that need updating,” according to a government […] More
Conceptual and aesthetic Brunello di Montalcino
The confidence of Montalcino plus 56 tasting notes covering the Rosso and Brunello di Montalcino tasted at 13 estates in October 2019 By Michael Godel October 2019, Montalcino. Harmony and Unesco Heritage Centre of a surface area totalling 31,200 hectares, 3,660 of which are vineyards planted predominately to sangiovese. An accord of 2,100 to Brunello […] 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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Rioja is a wine from a region named after the Rio Oja, in northeast Spain. Rioja wines are normally a blend of various grape varieties, and can be either red, white or rose. In whites, the wines are made from viura and verdejo, while in reds, the best-known and most widely-used variety is Tempranillo, blended with garnacha (grenache), graciano, mazuelo and others. Red Riojas often display characteristics of oak and vanilla, due to barrel aging with relatively high proportions of new oak. Red riojas come in various styles, defined according to the length of time spent in barrel, from joven (young) styles to Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva.
