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2019 Niagara Homegrown Wine Festival
Raise a glass and toast Niagara’s wine country! June 15-16 & June 22-23 The Niagara Homegrown Wine Festival is the perfect time to celebrate the start of summer. With fresh farm flavours, and everyone heading outdoors, there is no better place than Niagara to enjoy over 14,800 acres of lush vineyards! Award-winning winemakers are eager […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (May 2019)
Big Discounts and Delists at the LCBO; updated Top 50 Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO – by Steve Thurlow Ten wines joined the Top 50 Best Values List this month; some with big discounts due to delist by LCBO. I have highlighted below eleven […] More
VINTAGES Buyers’ Guide – May 11th
Local Finds, Springtime Rosés, New Zealand Best Buys and Global Gems By Sara d’Amato with notes from Michael Godel It is under wet and windy skies just outside of Lisbon I find myself reflecting upon this week’s VINTAGES release. Michael Godel is, at present, among sunnier skies in Sicily. Over 3,000 kilometres separate us, yet […] 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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Pinot blanc is one of the many variations of the pinot variety, resulting from pinot's frequent genetic mutations, with pinot noir having given birth to pinot gris, pinot meunier and a few more variations. In Alsace, Italy and Hungary, the wine produced from Pinot Blanc is a full-bodied dry white wine while in Germany and Austria they can be either dry or sweet. Pinot Blanc is also found all over Eastern Europe, and has found significant success in British Columbia, where it is in the top five most planted varieties. Pinot blanc produces a wine with fruity aromas, often of apples and melons, but it does not have very distinctive characteristics. It is rather high in acidity. Pinot blanc wines are usually made for immediate consumption and seldom meant for cellaring.
