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Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES February 22nd, 2020
Prince Edward County’s Quixotic Wines, Top Ontario, & Miscellaneous Smart Buys By John Szabo MS with reviews by David Lawrason, Michael Godel, and Sara d’Amato In 2017, my wife and I bought a derelict 1870s farmhouse in the hamlet of Rosehall in Prince Edward County. Another fool and his four acres. But what “good bones”! […] More
Special Report – Prince Edward County
A Quarter Century In: Prince Edward County & Its Quixotic Wines By John Szabo MS In 2017, we bought a derelict 1870s farmhouse in the hamlet of Rosehall in Prince Edward County. Another fool and his four acres. But what “good bones”! What potential! A raw structure with old charisma and new potential, at least […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (February 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 You can save big time again this month and so continue an “economical” 2020. I have some great buys to tell you about with many wines discounted at the LCBO. […] 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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Barbera is a red wine grape variety that is the second most-planted variety in Italy (the first is Sangiovese). It gives good yields and can impart deep colour, low tannins and (unusually for a warm-climate red grape) high levels of acid. Barbera d'Asti is one of the most renowned of the Barbera based wines, found in two main variants: Barbera d'Asti Superiore which must be aged in big oak barrels or small French oak barrels for at least six months, and plain Barbera d'Asti which is not required to be aged in oak. The wine has a strong aging potential; the "Superiore" kind can often be aged from three to eight years or even more. The best producers see its potential as being almost as great as that of nebbiolo.
