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By Sara d’Amato Eastern European wine is fast on the rise with Baltic countries experiencing a renaissance the way Portugal, Greece and southern Italy have seen. Wines from the Baltic basin began creeping into our market over the past five years brandishing homespun labels featuring the names of unfamiliar grape varieties sometimes blended with international […]
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If I Could Buy Only One – Aug 19th, 2017 VINTAGES Release
As part of our VINTAGES recap, we asked our critics: “If you could buy only one wine from this release – which one would it be and why?” Our picks from the Aug 19th VINTAGES release: Michael Godel: The warm weather certainly stresses the ideal but most days I want to be able to taste the clarity of […]
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Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES – Aug 19th, 2017
Eight Head Turning South African Wines for $175 By David Lawrason, with notes from John Szabo and Michael Godel I know have said this before in years gone by, but in August VINTAGES tends to release a lot of average wines, perhaps when fewer people are looking. In the past two releases there have been […]
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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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Icewine is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally quite expensive. The most famous (and expensive) ice wines are German Eiswein and Canadian Icewine but ice wine is also made in other countries around the world.
