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Top 5 Sparkling Pink at the LCBO
Pongráz Cap Classique Rosé, Traditional Method, Wo Western Cape, South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
646968
Antech Émotion Rosé Crémant De Limoux 2017, Traditional Method, Ac, Limoux, France
Languedoc, France
557645
The Roost Bunch'a Trouble Sparkling Brut Rosé 2017, Charmat Method, VQA Ontario
Ontario, Canada
644682
Tasting through 175 Chianti Classico DOCG from the last three vintages confirms the territory’s ability to consistently achieve another level of quality Passport to Chianti Classico In February of this year John Szabo M.S. and I made our annual pilgrimage to Tuscany for the Chianti Classico Collection. We tasted through more than 200 examples of […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (June 2020)
Bargains by the Dozen by Steve Thurlow There are many big discounts this month at the LCBO for me to tell you about. Also I have been tasting new vintages of some of my favourites and a few are better then the last vintage and so joined the list. So there are lots of new […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES May 16, 2020
USA Spotlight Comes at a Rough Moment By David Lawrason, with notes from Michael Godel and John Szabo There are two features to this Vintages release: Women in Wine and Spotlight USA. Both themes were plotted months ago, pre-Covid. But of course all the best laid plans have fallen apart. We have not been able […] 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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Rosé sparkling wines are produced in two different manners: by saignée, meaning that a certain amount of juice is "bled" out of white must made from red grapes with white pulp, resulting in a light pink coloration, or by adding red wine to white sparkling wine. Often made in part or in whole from pinot noir, they can also be produced using gamay, grenache, trepat (in rosé cavas) and many other varieties. Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it making it fizzy. The classic example of a sparkling wine is Champagne, but many other examples are produced in other countries and regions, such as Cava in Spain, Asti in Italy (the generic Italian term for sparkling wine being Spumante) and Cap Classique in South Africa. In some parts of the world, the word "champagne" is used as a synonym for sparkling wine, although laws in Europe and other countries reserve the word champagne for a specific type from the Champagne region of France.
