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Top Values at the LCBO (August 2017)
Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO Bumper Bargain Period at LCBO by Steve Thurlow Lots of new vintages are arriving on the shelves from the Italy’s southern regions. As expected they are all great value and I have enjoyed tasting them. This is a great […]
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Thanks to you we’ve reached a Major Milestone
Today (August 14th, 2017) we reached ONE MILLION annual unique visitors from Canada. Source: Google Analytics Aug 14, 2016 and Aug 13, 2017 In the last year we have had over 500,000 different visitors from Ontario and close to 300,000 from Quebec. Our visitors represent a large percentage of the wine consumers in each province including significant traffic […]
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Szabo’s VINTAGES Preview – Aug 19th
Styria, Languedoc and Assorted Whites By John Szabo, MS In my last report, I covered the extraordinary grüner veltliners and rieslings of the terraced vineyards in the Wachau. But did you know that Austria also produces superb sauvignon blanc? In part two this week I take a deep look at Südsteiermark, or Styria. Here, a […]
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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.
