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A Toast to Cool VQA Chardonnay – July 18, 2020
Join WineAlign critics Michael Godel and John Szabo MS for a virtual, interactive Zoom tasting of top Ontario wines, part of the i4C 2020 (International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration). Purchase your favourite cool VQA Chardonnay, gather your bubble, bring your burning wine questions, and tune in for a mostly fun, but accidentally educational cocktail hour […] More
D’Amato & Szabo: Wine Thieves – Episode 1
Bourgogne for a Changing World Part 1: Attractive Values of the “Bourgogne Plus” We are pleased to introduce new wine content for our subscribers in the form of a bi-monthly podcast. D’Amato & Szabo Wine Thieves is a riveting insider’s look at the realm of fine wine telling the stories of the people and the […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (July 2020)
by Steve Thurlow I have been tasting some new listings and new vintages of some of my favourites; some of which are better than the last vintage and so joined the list. Also there are many big discounts this month at the LCBO for me to tell you about. As a result, there are 14 […] 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.
