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If I Could Buy Only One – August 8th VINTAGES Release
Back by popular demand: We asked the writers, “If you could buy only one wine from this release, which one would it be and why?”. John Szabo, MS: From Cabernet vines planted in 1947 in the northerly, high elevation Cafayate Valley, the El Esteco 1947 Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 is a brilliant wine, appealingly […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES August 8th, 2020
John Szabo’s Vintages Review for August 8th: Argentina and the Sacred Art of the Asado, High Elevation Winegrowing, Roero Report, and Other Assorted Smart Buys By John Szabo MS, with picks from Sara, David, and Michael The August 8th Vintages release is a timely feature on the wines of Argentina, the official national beverage, intended […] More
Roero DOCG Previews and Retrospectives: 2017, Riserva 2016, 2007 and Riserva 2006
By Michael Godel Nebbiolo, arbiter of Piedmontese taste, far from existing in a vacuum or holed up in a one horse town. Nebbiolo’s web casts complex, wide, untethered, unconfined and spread out across a connected set of earthly Albeisa vineyard constellations. The varietal lands umbrellaed and managed in trust to a multi-tasking Consorzio belong to […] 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.
