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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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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.
